ARS Research Labs Studying Climate Change

• U.S. Arid Land Agricultural Research Center
• 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

14 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)
• 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)
• Assessing the climate change mitigation potential of wetland restoration in the conservation reserve program (Integrated Cropping Systems Research)
• Improving specialty crop resilience to climate change and pests in the midwest (National Laboratory for Agriculture and The Environment: Soil, Water & Air Resources Research)
• Climate change education for teachers and students in the southern plains climate hub region (Oklahoma and Central Plains Agricultural Research Center (ocparc))
• Synthesis, research & outreach of climate change mitigation practices: a research and outreach effort with southern plains climate hub & nrcs (Oklahoma and Central Plains Agricultural Research Center (ocparc))
• Analysis to support soil health and climate change research (Plant Science 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)
• Breeding prunus and vitis to improve disease resistance, fruit quality, and climate change adaptation (San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center: Crop Diseases, Pests and Genetics Research)
• Linking climate change impacts on forest health, fire risk, and vegetation and snow dynamics in california (Sustainable Agricultural Water Systems 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)