ARS Research Labs Studying Climate Change

• U.s. Arid Land Agricultural Research Center
• Soil and Water Conservation 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

13 Research Projects Studying Climate Change

• Development of crop phenotype database for climate change and crop modeling research (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 (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)
• 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)
• Row crop production under climate change – assessment of sustainable management practices and soil additives in sand deposited fields (Crop Genetics Research)
• Adapting perennial crops for climate change: graft transmissible effects of rootstocks on grapevine shoots (Grape Genetics Research)
• Uncertainty of future water availability due to climate change and impacts on the long term sustainability and resilience of agricultural lands in the southern great plains (Grazinglands Research Laboratory: Great Plains Agroclimate and Natural Resources Research)
• Climate change, cooperative extension and youth (Range Management Research)
• Climate change adaptation technical assistance & outreach in the southwest (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)
• Genebank genetic diversity management with respect to climate change and physiological stress (Vegetable Crops Research)
• Ecological, ecophysiological and biochemical responses of native and alien cordgrasses and yellow flag iris to sea level rise with climate change (Western Regional Research Center: Invasive Species and Pollinator Health Research)