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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
Animal research, general
Apple
Atmosphere, general/other
Bacteria
Barley
Beans (dry)
Beans (fresh, fresh-processed)
Beef cattle, general/other
Beef cattle, live animal
Biological Cell Systems
Canola
Citrus, general/other
Climate
Coffee
Cool season perennial grasses (includes bluegrass, bromegrass, fescue)
Corn (for sweetcorn use 1480)
Cotton, other
Cottonseed (for meal, oil, etc.)
Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species
Cross-commodity research--multiple crops
Dairy cattle, live animal
Desert and semidesert shrub land and shinnery
Durum wheat
Economy, general/other
Egg-type chicken, live animal
Fertilizers
Finfish
Food (not readily associated with specific plant and animal products)
Forage legumes, other
Freshwater shrimp
General Commodity
General technology
Goats, meat and mohair
Grain crops, general/other (includes buckwheat, millet, triticale)
Grain sorghum
Greens and leafy vegetables (includes endive, lettuce, spinach)
Hard red spring wheat
Hard red winter wheat
Hard white wheat
Honey bees
Horses, ponies, and mules
Individuals (as workers, consumers, members of society)
Insects
Laboratory animals
Land
Leguminous vegetables, other
Lentil
Long fiber cotton
Machinery and equipment
Marine shrimp
Meat, beef cattle
Meat, dairy cattle
Meat, sheep
Meat, swine
Meat-type chicken, live animal
Microorganisms, general/other
Miscellaneous and new crops, general/other
Noncrop plant research
Oats
Oilseed and oil crops, general/other
Other animals, general
Other bees (non-Apis bees)
Other non-bee pollinators, general
Other swine products
Pasture
Pasture and forage crops, general/other
Peanut
Peas (dry)
Pecan
People and communities, general/other
Perennial grasses, other
Pesticides (includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.)
Plant research, general
Potato
Rangelands and grasslands, general
Rangelands, other
Remote sensing equipment and technology
Rice
River basins
Sheep, live animal
Soft red wheat
Soft white wheat (includes club, western)
Soil
Soil and land, general
Solar radiation
Soybean
Spiders, mites, ticks, and other arthropods
Strawberry
Sugar beet
Summer annual grasses (includes forage sorghums, sudangrass, sorghum)
Sunflower
Swine, general/other
Swine, live animal
The family and its members
The farm as an enterprise
Turkey, live animal
Upland cotton
Vegetables, general/other
Viruses
Warm season perennial grasses (includes dallisgrass, bluestems)
Water resources
Watersheds
Watersheds and river basins, general
Weather
Weeds
Wheat, other
Wild animals
Wildlife and natural fisheries, general/other
Winter annual legumes (includes subterranean clover, arrowleaf clover)
Research Projects within Soil and land, general
item Accelerating IoT and Big Data Analytics to Drive Climate Smart and Precision Agriculture Systems
item Accelerating IoT and Big Data Analytics to Drive Climate Smart and Precision Agriculture Systems
item Accounting for Stem Water Capacitance in Earth Systems and Hydrologic Models
item Action Area No. 2 (AA2) - Greenhouse Gas Research Network - Initial Equipment Needs - Fort Collins
item Action Area No. 2 (AA2) – Greenhouse Gas Research Network – Plains Area - Cropland Emissions- Ft. Collins, Colorado
item Action Area No. 2 (AA2) – Greenhouse Gas Research Network – Plains Area Cropland Emissions (Mandan)
item Adapting Agricultural Production Systems and Soil and Water Conservation Practices to Climate Change and Variability in Southern Great Plains
item Advancing Climate Change Resilience in the Southwest United States
item Advancing Climate-Informed Agroforestry and Sustainable Community Forestry in the Southwest
item Agricultural Data Security to Enable Precision, Data-Driven Management
item Agricultural Management for Long-Term Sustainability and Soil Health
item Assessing Soil Microbiomes for Soil Health and Agricultural Productivity
item Assessment and Monitoring Tools for Adaptive Management of Large Ranch Landscapes
item Characterization of Soil Microbiome in Diverse Biochar-Amended Soils and Ecosystems
item Climate Change Adaptation Technical Assistance & Outreach in the Southwest
item Climate Change Education for Teacher Professional Development
item Climate Change Education for Teachers and Students in the Southern Plains Climate Hub Region
item Climate Conversation with NRCS and Conservation Partnership Personnel
item Climate Extension in Arizona
item Climate Mitigation Outreach and Education
item Climate Mitigation Outreach and Education
item Climate Mitigation Outreach and Education - Fort Collins
item Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry
item Collaboration on Tools to Manage Ecosystem Transitions for Agricultural Sustainability in the Americas
item Collaborative Animal Research between New Mexico State University (NMSU and ARS)
item Collaborative Food Production Systems Research
item Collaborative Food Production Systems Research
item Collaborative Food Production Systems Research Between ARS and University of Alaska - Fairbanks
item Collaborative Livestock Research Between ARS and NDSU-Hettinger Research Extension Center
item Collaborative Research in Atmospheric Characterization, Modeling and Sensing
item Colorado South Platte River Basin CEAP - Establishment of Monitoring and Modeling Foundation
item Community-led Monitoring and Management of Climate Resilient Indigenous Wild Edible Plants in Alaska
item Continuing Technology Development for Sustainable Land Management, Monitoring, and Research
item Contribution of Legacy P to Watershed Outcomes - Phase 1
item Cooperative Research for Joint Projects in Basic and Applied Research with Regional or National Importance
item Data Partnership with PhenoCam Network to Process, Serve, and Archive LTAR Digital Camera Imagery and Derived Data Products
item DayCent Model Development and Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizer Assessment
item Develop and Evaluate a Site-specific Climate Downscaling Tool for Climatic Impact Assessment
item Developing Ecophysiological Components for Post-Fire Hydrologic Models
item Developing Multiple-scale Validation Tools for Forage Mass and Forage Production in Rangelands: A Pilot Study
item Developing Remote Sensing and Image Processing Tools for North Dakota Agricultural and Rangeland Applications
item Developing Southern Plains Region Management And Resiliency Tools for Agricultural Systems (SMART Ag Systems)
item Development of a Tool to Support Emergency Haying and Grazing Decisions on CRP lands
item Development of an All-lands Wind Erosion Model
item Development of Data and Tools to Support Precision Dryland Farming
item Development of Rangeland Fractional Cover and Production Models
item EDIT Update
item Effects of Grazing Land Management on Soil Organic Carbon in the United States: A Climate Hubs-LTAR Science Synthesis and Translation Collaboration
item Enhancements to the Database for Inventory, Monitoring and Assessment
item Enhancing Climate Literacy, Adaptation, and Mitigation among Working-land Managers and Partners in the Northern Plains
item Enhancing Climate-smart Disaster Relief in FSA programs: Non-stationarity at the Intersection of Normal Grazing Periods and US Drought Assessment
item Enhancing Climate-smart Disaster Relief in FSA Programs: Non-stationarity at the Intersection of Normal Grazing Periods and US Drought Assessment
item Enhancing Knowledge of Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Among Native Agricultural Producers and Other Working-Land Managers and Partners in Montana
item Environmental Monitoring to Support Eco-Geomorphic Modeling and Atmospheric Prediction
item Evaluation of Management Impacts on Water and Soil Quality using Distributed Hydrologic and Transport Models
item Expanding NRCS Climate Literacy and Leadership
item Expanding NRCS Climate Literacy and Leadership
item Experimental Evaluation of Drought and Grazing Duration on Grassland Productivity
item FY 2021 Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) - Benchmark Watershed Assessment Studies (on Croplands) El Reno, OK
item FY 2022 Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) - Benchmark Watershed Assessment Studies (on croplands) El Reno
item Geospatial Analysis and Modeling of Agrohydrological Variability in the Water-limited Great Plains
item Graphical User Interface for Multi-Group Particle Swarm Optimization
item Grass-Cast: Decision Support for Climate-Smart Decision-Making in Rangelands
item Grazingland CEAP, Pasture Ecological Vulnerability Index (pEVI)
item Great Plains Indigenous Seeds and Plants Research
item Great Plains Indigenous Seeds and Plants Research with United Tribes Technical College
item Great Plains Wheat Stem Sawfly Coalition - Colorado State Univ
item Great Plains Wheat Stem Sawfly Coalition - Kansas State Univ
item Great Plains Wheat Stem Sawfly Coalition - Montana State Univ
item Great Plains Wheat Stem Sawfly Coalition - North Dakota State University
item Great Plains Wheat Stem Sawfly Coalition - Univ Nebraska
item Identifying Drivers of Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Semi-arid Agroecosystems
item Impacts of Variable Land Management and Climate on Water and Soil Resources
item Improve Temporal and Spatial Coverage of National Conservation Activity Data
item Improved Establishment Techniques for Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Pollinator Mixtures in Semi-Arid regions of the western US
item Improvement and Maintenance of a Knowledge of a Land-Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS)
item Improving Dryland Agricultural Crops, Practices, and Data Utilization
item Improving Resiliency of Semi-Arid Agroecosystems and Watersheds to Change and Disturbance through Data-Driven Research, AI, and Integrated Models
item Improving Soil Quality and Productivity of Eroded Crop Land Using Animal Beef Manure
item Influence of Plant Secondary Metabolites on Abiotic CO2 Efflux from Soils
item Integrated Cropland and Rangeland Drought Preparation for Enhanced Climate Resiliency in Utah
item Integrated Research to Enhance Forage and Food Production from Southern Great Plains Agroecosystems
item Inventory of Forest Resources: Forest Management Resources in New Mexico and Arizona
item Investigating Grazing Impacts on Soil Carbon
item Knowledge Systems and Tools to Increase the Resilience and Sustainablity of Western Rangeland Agriculture
item Lake Champlain Legacy Phosphorus Assessment - Phases 1 and 2
item Land Health Assessment and Visualization Tools
item Land Management and Monitoring Apps Development
item LANDSCAPE MONITORING
item Long-Term Agroecosystems Research (LTAR) Human Dimensions Data Collection and Assessment
item Long-Term Beef Manure Influences Soil Quality, Carbon Dynamics, and Corn Productivity
item Long-Term Cover Crops Influence Soil Quality and Carbon Content in Cropping System
item Long-term Oil Seed Production Influence Soil Quality and Carbon Content in Dryland Cropping System
item Long-term Tillage Influence Soil Nutrient Dynamics and Soil Quality in Dryland Cropping System
item Long-term Tillage Influence Soil Quality and Carbon Cycling in Dryland Cropping System
item LTER: Long-Term Research at the Jornada Basin
item Maintaining and Improving the Rangeland Analysis Platform
item Mapping of Soil Moisture with Mobile Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensors
item Monitoring Climatic Changes in Northwest Oklahoma
item Monitoring Tools and Research in Support of Adaptive Management
item Natural Carbon Sinks in Grass and Cropland
item NextGenEEF: Evaluation and Testing of Biodegradable Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizers
item Outreach and Communication for the Rangeland Analysis Platform
item Rangeland Analysis Platform Support and Development
item Rangeland Monitoring and Data Analyses Using the AIM Strategy
item Recycling Nutrients for Robust Agricultural Supply Chains
item Recycling Nutrients for Robust Agricultural Supply Chains
item Residue Removal Study and Manure Addition to Maintain Soil Quality and Sustainability
item Science and Technologies for the Sustainable Management of Rangeland Systems
item Scientific Support and Partnership for BLM Renewable Resource Programs in NM
item Scientific Support and Partnership for BLM Renewable Resources Programs in New Mexico
item Seed Multiplication to Support Indigenous Seed Sovereignty
item Sensors, Technology, and Data Security to Enable Precision, Data-Driven Management
item Soil C Cycling in Irrigated Agroecosystems
item Soil Water Holding Capacity in Long-Term Compost Study
item Stakeholder Development, Student Help, and Educational Opportunities Associated with the Southern Plains LTAR Network Site
item Standardized Monitoring Implementation and Research
item Strategies for Sustaining Multi-functional Rangelands
item Streamlining the Use of Monitoring Data in Multiple Resource Decision Making
item Support Climate-smart Decision Making on Diné Lands, USDA Southwest Climate Hub
item Supporting Career Pathways for Indigenous Agriculture
item Synthesis, Research & Outreach of Climate Change Mitigation Practices: A Research and Outreach Effort with Southern Plains Climate Hub & NRCS
item Technology Development for Sustainable Land Management, Monitoring and Research
item The 4 Directions Projections
item The USDA ARS Climate Hubs - Increasing Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability by Impactful Development and Communication of Climate Smart Agricultural Research and Practices - El Reno, OK
item The USDA ARS Climate Hubs – Increasing Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability by Impactful Development and Communication of Climate Smart Agricultural Research and Practices - Fort Collins, CO
item The USDA ARS Climate Hubs – Increasing Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability by Impactful Development and Communication of Climate Smart Agricultural Research and Practices – Las Cruces, NM
item Transdisciplinary Research that Improves the Productivity and Sustainability of Northern Great Plains Agroecosystems and the Well-Being of the Communities They Serve
item U.S. Department of State Temporary Detail for Jeffrey Herrick
item Understanding the Role of Kernza in the Intermountain West
item Urban Forestry as a Strategy in the Heat Management Portfolio for a Resilient Nevada
item USDA Southwest Climate Hub Advancing Climate Informed Decision Making in Hawaii and USAPI
item USDA-ARS Science Communication & Outreach Specialist for Agriculture and Climate in the U.S. Southern Plains
item Using Landscape Features, Plot Measurements, and Remote Sensing Data to Improve Predictions of Fuels Treatment Longevity in the Colorado Front Range
item Using Quantitative Approaches to Developing Ecological Sites
item Wind Erosion Tools and the Landscape Data Commons