ARS Research Labs Studying Climate Change

• U.S. Arid Land Agricultural Research Center
• Soil and Water Conservation Research
• Knipling-bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory: Livestock Arthropod Pest Research
• Southern Regional Research Center
• Southern Regional Research Center: Food and Feed Safety Research
• National Sedimentation Laboratory
• Plant Science Research
• Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory

25 Research Projects Studying Climate Change

• Development of database on crop responses to climate change for model development and validation (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Adaptive Cropping Systems Laboratory)
• Developing practices for nutrient and byproducts to mitigate climate change, improve nutrient utilization, and reduce effects on environment (bridge project) (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Adaptive Cropping Systems Laboratory)
• Economics of mitigating climate change with soil health practices (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory)
• Soil, crop, and manure biochemistry and molecular ecology: bridging knowledge gaps in microbiome response to management and climate change (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory)
• Climate change vulnerability assessment for rangelands on the medicine bow-routt national forests & thunder basin national grassland (Center for Agricultural Resources Research: Rangeland Resources & Systems Research)
• Impacts of climate change on integrated pest management of stored product insects (Center for Grain and Animal Health Research: Stored Product Insect and Engineering Research)
• Row crop production under climate change – assessment of sustainable management practices for plant and soil health (Crop Genetics Research)
• Row crop production under climate change – assessment of sustainable management practices and soil additives in sand deposited fields (Crop Genetics Research)
• Assessing the climate change mitigation potential of wetland restoration in the conservation reserve program (Integrated Cropping Systems Research)
• Mobilizing innovation in biotechnology, genetics, and genomics to mitigate climate change and to transform crops into better foods, biobased products, and biofuels (National Programs)
• Adapting agricultural production systems and soil and water conservation practices to climate change and variability in southern great plains (Oklahoma and Central Plains Agricultural Research Center (ocparc): Agroclimate and Hydraulics Research)
• Climate change education for teacher professional development (Oklahoma and Central Plains Agricultural Research Center (ocparc): Office of The Center Director)
• Climate change education for teachers and students in the southern plains climate hub region (Oklahoma and Central Plains Agricultural Research Center (ocparc): Office of The Center Director)
• Improving soybean seed composition, plant productivity, and resilience to climate change through biological network modification (Plant Genetics Research)
• Analysis to support soil health and climate change research (Plant Science Research)
• Multi-generational adaptation of blue orchard bees (osmia lignaria) in response to climate change in orchard crops (Pollinating Insect-biology, Management, Systematics Research)
• Blue orchard bee (bob) response to climate change in orchard crops (Pollinating Insect-biology, Management, Systematics Research)
• Microbiome transplantation as a novel approach to prevent climate change mediated susceptibility to foodborne pathogen carriage in poultry (Poultry Production and Product Safety Research)
• Climate change adaptation technical assistance & outreach in the southwest (Range Management Research)
• Climate change, cooperative extension and youth (Range Management Research)
• Advancing climate change resilience in the southwest united states (Range Management Research)
• Remote sensing systems for precision agriculture to address issues in environmental and climate change (Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center: Aerial Application Technology Research)
• Climate states and climate changes observed and projected in the mississippi embayment aquifer region from 1981 to 2060 (Sustainable Water Management Research)
• Enhancing boar fertility in the face of climate change through the mitigation of in utero heat stress (U.s. Meat Animal Research Center: Livestock Bio-systems Research)
• Genebank genetic diversity management with respect to climate change and physiological stress (Vegetable Crops Research)