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Research Projects Subjects of Investigation at this Location

Each ARS research project has related subjects of investigation.  Listed below are the subjects of investigation currently conducted at this location.

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Subjects of Investigation

Air
Alfalfa
Almond
Apple
Atmosphere, general/other
Bacteria
Barley
Beans (dry)
Beans (fresh, fresh-processed)
Bedding/garden plants
Beef cattle, general/other
Beef cattle, live animal
Berries and cane fruits, other
Blueberry
Carrot
Cheese
Cherry
Citrus, general/other
Clams and mussels
Climate
Cocoa
Coffee
Cole crops (includes cabbage, kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower,
Cool season perennial grasses (includes bluegrass, bromegrass, fescue)
Corn (for sweetcorn use 1480)
Cotton, other
Cottonseed (for meal, oil, etc.)
Cranberry
Cross-commodity research--multiple crops
Cucurbits, other (includes pumpkin, squash, gourd)
Cut flowers, foliage, and greens
Dairy cattle, live animal
Date
Deciduous and small fruits, general/other
Deciduous tree fruits, other
Desert and semidesert shrub land and shinnery
Drainage and irrigation facilities and systems
Durum wheat
Edible tree nuts, general/other
Eggplant
Eggs
Fertilizers
Fiber crops, general/other
Filbert
Finfish
Flax
Florist crops, other
Food (not readily associated with specific plant and animal products)
Fungi (includes yeast)
General Commodity
General technology
Goats, meat and mohair
Grain crops, general/other (includes buckwheat, millet, triticale)
Grain sorghum
Grapefruit
Grapes, other
Greens and leafy vegetables (includes endive, lettuce, spinach)
Guayule
Hard red spring wheat
Hard red winter wheat
Hemp
Herbaceous perennials and decorative greens
Honey bees
Hops
Horses, ponies, and mules
Individuals (as workers, consumers, members of society)
Insects
Kiwi
Land
Leguminous vegetables, other
Lemon
Lentil
Long fiber cotton
Marketing, processing, and supply firms other than cooperatives
Meat-type chicken, live animal
Melons (includes cantaloupe, muskmelon, watermelon)
Microorganisms, general/other
Milk
Mint
Miscellaneous and new crops, general/other
Mountain grasslands, meadow, and alpine
Mushrooms and other edible fungi
Nematodes
Oats
Oilseed and oil crops, general/other
Onion, garlic, leek, shallot
Orange
Ornamental trees and shrubs
Ornamentals and turf, general/other (includes cacti)
Other bees (non-Apis bees)
Other non-bee pollinators, general
Papaya
Parks and urban green space
Pasture
Pasture and forage crops, general/other
Peach
Peanut
Pear
Peas (dry)
Peas (fresh, fresh-processed)
Pecan
People and communities, general/other
Peppers
Perennial grasses, other
Pesticides (includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.)
Pineapple
Pinyon-juniper
Plant research, general
Plum
Potato
Potted plants
Poultry meat
Raisin grapes
Rangelands and grasslands, general
Rangelands, other
Raspberry
Remote sensing equipment and technology
Research equipment and methods, general/other
Rice
Rubber, gum, and resin plants, other
Rye
Salmon
Seeds and other plant propagules
Sensory evaluation/analysis methods (human senses)
Sewage and waste disposal facilities and systems
Sheep, live animal
Shellfish
Soft red wheat
Soft white wheat (includes club, western)
Soil
Soil and land, general
Solanaceous and related crops, general/other (for potato use 1310)
Soybean
Spiders, mites, ticks, and other arthropods
Strawberry
Structures, facilities, and equipment, general/other
Sugar beet
Sugar cane
Sweet potato
Swine, general/other
Swine, live animal
Table grapes
Taro
The farm as an enterprise
Tomato
Trees, forests, and forest products, general
Tropical/subtropical fruit, general/other
Trout
Turf (includes bentgrass, bermudagrass, bluegrass, dichondra, fescue)
Upland cotton
Vegetables, general/other
Walnut
Warm season perennial grasses (includes dallisgrass, bluestems)
Water resources
Watersheds
Watersheds and river basins, general
Weather
Weeds
Wetland and riparian systems
Wheat, other
Wild animals
Wildlife and natural fisheries, general/other
Wine grapes
Wood and wood products
Research Projects within Soil
item A Controlled Environment Agriculture Platform for Cultivation of Salt-Tolerant Crops with Integrated Saline Water Irrigation and Salinity Management
item Action Area No. 2 (AA2) – Greenhouse Gas Research Network – Pacific West Area Land Emissions - Kimberly
item Action Area No. 2 (AA2) – Greenhouse Gas Research Network – Pacific West Area Land Emissions - Pullman
item Action Area No. 2 (AA2)–Greenhouse Gas Research Network - Pacific West Area Land Emissions - Parlier
item Action area No.2(AA2)–Greenhouse Gas Research Network Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Annual Cropping Systems in the Semiarid West - Pendleton
item Adsorption of PFAS by Biochars and Subsequent Regeneration with Microwave Treatment
item Advancing On-farm and Experiment Station Research to Manage Herbicide Resistant Weeds in the Pacific Northwest
item Advancing Soil Health and Agricultural Performance to Promote Sustainable Intensification and Resilience of Northwest Dryland Cropping Systems
item AgroNano: Nanobubble Infused Irrigation to Enable Use of High Salinity Waters for Plant Growth
item Almond-alfalfa Intercropping in Young Orchards for Profitability and Sustainability
item Almond-Alfalfa Intercropping in Young Orchards for Profitability and Sustainability (Kearney Ag)
item Artificial Intelligence to Increase Sustainability of Water, Nutrient, Salinity, and Pest Management in the Western US
item Assessing Sugarbeet Water Use using Furrow and Sprinkler Irrigation in the Imperial Valley of California
item Assessment of Management Practices in Citrus for Water Conservation in the Kaweah River Watershed, California
item Assessment of Smoke Exposure Impacts on Grape and Wine Quality and Techniques for Mitigation in the Vineyard and in the Winery
item Biochar-Based Polishing Technology for Treated Municipal Wastewater to Mitigate Antimicrobial Resistance Dissemination in Irrigated Cropping Systems
item Biotransformation of Smoke Taint Marker Compounds by Native Grape Microbiota
item Collaborative Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) Oversight and Research between UC Riverside and ARS Salinity Lab
item Conservation Practice Impacts to Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Dryland Cropping Systems of the Northwest
item Continuing a General Framework for Cooperation for Research on Crop and Soil Science Projects
item Develop a Quantitative, Usable Database of PFAS Concentrations in Agricultural Samples Including Before & After Treatment or Practice Implementation
item Develop a Quantitative, Usable Database of PFAS Concentrations in Agricultural Samples Including Before & After Treatment or Practice Implementation
item Developing Resilient Irrigated Cropping Systems in Concentrated Dairy Production Areas of the Semi-arid West
item Development of Innovative Technologies to selectively Remove Off-flavors in Wine (Smoke Taint, Brettanomyces Off flavor and Reduction)
item Digital and Precision Agriculture for Sustainable Water and Salinity Management in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions
item Direct Seeded Guayule Performance and Selection Under Different Irrigation Management Practices
item Elucidating the Relationship Between Salinity and Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Compounds Availability in Irrigation Water
item Enhancing Crop Resilience to Biotic and Abiotic Stress Through Understanding the Microbiome and Immune Signaling Mechanisms
item Enhancing Crop Security through Genetic Control of Plant Development, Pathogen Protection, and Stress Tolerance
item Enhancing Farmer Prosperity in the Western U.S. Through Innovation in Crop Genetics and Irrigation Management
item Enhancing Vine Productivity and Soil Health Through Sustainable Wood Mulching Strategies
item Establish a General Framework for Cooperation for Research on University of Idaho Projects.
item Evaluating New Breeding Material for Salinity Tolerance in Almond Rootstocks and Exploring Novel Sources of Salinity Tolerance in Prunus Germplasm
item Exploration of Microbiome Properties with I-Cultiver
item Exploration of the Microbiome of Native Plants for Plant Growth-Promoting Microbes to Mitigate Effects of Abiotic Stresses in Grain, Vegetable,...
item Exploration of Tomato Epigenetics with Bene Sseeds
item Genetics x Environment x Management interactions affecting crop salt tolerance and drought resistance
item Geographical and Functional Expansion of the Pacific Northwest Biochar Atlas
item Geographical and Functional Expansion of the PNW Biochar Atlas
item Geographical and Functional Expansion of the PNW Biochar Atlas
item Geographical and Functional Expansion of the PNW Biochar Atlas - American Farmland Trust
item Geographical and Functional Expansion of the PNW Biochar Atlas - Oregon State University
item Geographical and Functional Expansion of the PNW Biochar Atlas - WSU
item Identification of Pollutant Sources and Evaluation of Nutrient Alternatives for Agriculture
item Identify the Effective Microalgae-Based Strategies to Ensure Food Safety in Reclaimed Water Irrigated Soils
item Impacts of Long-Term Management on Surface and Subsurface Transport and Biogeochemical Fluxes within the Cook Agronomy Farm
item Improving Productivity of Dairy Systems in the Western US
item Improving Soil and Water Productivity and Quality in Irrigated Cropping Systems
item Improving Water Management for Arid Irrigated Agroecosystems
item Linking Soil Carbon Building Practices to Almond Nutritional Quality
item Linking Soil Carbon Building Practices to Almond Nutritional Quality
item Long-Term Agricultural Research at the Cook Agronomy Farm
item Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) for Dryland Cropping Systems of the Northwest
item Making Microbiology More Predictable: An Integrative Platform for the Engineering and Functional Rehabilitation of Root-Associated Microbiomes
item Mechanochemical Destruction of PFAS Substances and Encapsulation into Fluorapatite
item Mechanochemical Valorization of Desalination Solid Residue
item Memorandum of Understanding on Sustainability of Federal Collaboration on Pharmaceuticals in Drinking Water (FY22)
item Microbial Indicators of Soil Health and Plant Productivity for Hawaii Agroecosystems
item Mitigation and remediation of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in agricultural systems
item Northwest and Alaska Agricultural Science to Improve Nutrient Efficiency, Crop Modeling, Selection and Soil
item Northwest and Alaska Climate Science to Enable Climate-Smart Decision-Making
item Nutrient Cycling and Precipitation Use Efficiency for Increasing Productivity and Resilience in Dryland Agroecosystems
item Optimizing and Enhancing Sustainable and Profitable Dryland Wheat Production
item Optimizing and Stabilizing Economic and Ecological Sustainability of Pacific Northwest Seed Cropping Systems Under Current and Future Climate Conditions
item Optimizing Cotton Production in Arizona by Investigating Impacts of Pressurized Drip and Flood Irrigation on Soil Salinity, Growth, and Lint Yield
item Optimizing Soil Carbon Sequestration in Oregon Seed Production Systems
item Optimizing Soil Carbon Sequestration in Oregon Seed Production Systems (OSU)
item Partnership: Engineering Nutrient-Enhanced Mulch Film to Improve Degradation and Soil Health
item PFAS Fate and Remediation in Agricultural Systems: Developing Conservation Assistance for Landowners
item PNW Herbicide Resistant Weeds Intiative: Community Engagement and Integrated Management of Herbicide Resistant Weeds
item PNWHRI: Community engagement and integrated management of herbicide resistant weeds
item Precision Nitrogen Mapping Proof of Concept
item Professional Support for the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Phytopathological Society
item Purchase of an Agilent Gas Chromatography Triple Quadrupole (GC/QQQ) System, With Associated Autosampler and Sample Preparation Equipment
item Purchase of Dedicated Instrument to Increase USDA Analytical and Research Capacity Related to PFAS in Food Production Systems
item Quantifying Dynamic Soil Properties for Soil health in the Central Valley of California
item Quantifying Dynamic Soil Properties for Soil health in the Central Valley of California
item Quantifying Dynamic Soil Properties for Soil Health in the Central Valley of California
item Resilient Dryland Farming Alliance: Opportunities to Reduce Fallow in Dryland Farming
item Resilient Dryland Farming Alliance: Opportunities to Reduce Fallow in Dryland Farming
item RESTORE: Replenishing EcoSystems by Transforming Residues to Energy
item Soil Health and Crop Productivity in Pacific Northwest Dryland Wheat Production Systems
item Soil Health and Crop Productivity in Pacific Northwest Dryland Wheat Production Systems
item Supporting EM and Field Observations in Californian Sugar Beets, Year 1
item Treatment of Wastewater with Nanobubbles for Safe Reuse
item U.S. Dairy Net Zero Initiative: Improving Dairy On-Farm Sustainability Through Improved Soil Health and Manure Management
item Understanding and Improving Salinity Tolerance in Specialty Crops
item Water Management for Crop Production in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions and the Safe Use of Alternative Water Resources