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

18 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)
• Development of crop phenotype database for climate change and crop modeling research (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)
• Row crop production under climate change – assessment of sustainable management practices and soil additives in sand deposited fields (Crop Genetics Research)
• Adapting agricultural production systems and soil and water conservation practices to climate change and variability in southern great plains (Grazinglands Research Laboratory: Great Plains Agroclimate and Natural Resources Research)
• Assessing the climate change mitigation potential of wetland restoration in the conservation reserve program (Integrated Cropping Systems 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)
• 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)
• 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)