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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
Bees, honey, and other pollinators, general
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
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
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 Water resources
item Action Area No. 2 (AA2) – Greenhouse Gas Research Network – Plains Area Cropland Emissions – Lincoln, Nebraska Location
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 Agricultural Intensification in the Western Corn Belt
item Assessment and Monitoring Tools for Adaptive Management of Large Ranch Landscapes
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 Conversations with Historically Underserved Farmers and Ranchers of Oklahoma
item Climate Extension in Arizona
item Climate Mitigation Outreach and Education
item Climate Mitigation Outreach and Education
item Climate Variability and Change in Central Oklahoma
item Climate-adaptive Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Establishment of Diverse Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Plantings in Drylands
item Climate-adaptive Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Establishment of Diverse Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Plantings in Drylands
item Climate-informed Assessment of Water Availability and Adaptive Management for Cropping Systems in the Fort Cobb Reservoir Experimental Watershed
item Climate-resilient Sustainable Irrigated and Dryland Cropping Systems in the Semi-arid Northern Great Plains
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 Research and Outreach to Facilitate Cotton Production in the Thermo-limited Regions of the Southern Ogallala Aquifer - Phase 2 KSU
item Collaborative Research and Outreach to Facilitate Cotton Production in the Thermo-limited Regions of the Southern Ogallala Aquifer - Phase 2 TAMU
item Collaborative Research and Outreach to Facilitate Cotton Production in the Thermo-limited Regions of the Southern Ogallala Aquifer - Phase 2 TTU
item Collaborative Research and Outreach to Facilitate Cotton Production in the Thermo-limited Regions of the Southern Ogallala Aquifer - Phase 2 WTAMU
item Collaborative Research and Outreach to Facilitate Cotton Production in Thermo-limited Regions of the Southern Ogallala Aquifer Region - KSU
item Collaborative Research and Outreach to Facilitate Cotton Production in Thermo-limited Regions of the Southern Ogallala Aquifer Region- Texas A&M
item Collaborative Research and Outreach to Facilitate Cotton Production in Thermo-limited Regions of the Southern Ogallala Aquifer Region- Texas Tech
item Collaborative Research and Outreach to Facilitate Cotton Production in Thermo-limited Regions of the Southern Ogallala Aquifer Region- WTAMU
item Collaborative Research in Atmospheric Characterization, Modeling and Sensing
item Colorado South Platte River Basin CEAP - Establishment of Monitoring and Modeling Foundation
item Conservation Effects Assessment Project - 2019, 2020, 2021
item Conservation Effects Assessment Project - 2022, 2023
item Dam Analysis Modernization of Tools, Applications, Guidance and Standardization (DAM-TAGS) Project
item DAM-TAGS: A Continuation of Modernization of Decision Support Tools, Guidance, Standardization, Training, and Outreach
item Data Partnership with PhenoCam Network to Process, Serve, and Archive LTAR Digital Camera Imagery and Derived Data Products
item Determining Impacts of Soil Moisture and Weather Variability on CRP Emergence and Establishment
item Develop and Evaluate a Site-specific Climate Downscaling Tool for Climatic Impact Assessment
item Develop and Evaluate Rapidly Deployable Inexpensive Sensors to Aid the Monitoring, Inspecting, and Rehabilitation of Aging Dams
item Developing a Conceptual Integrated Geospatial Architectures To Support Enterprise Deployment of Geographic Information Systems Products at USDA
item Developing Canopy Temperature Based Methodologies to Inform Irrigation Decisions
item Developing Climate Based Ag Management Operation Scheduling and Natural Infrastructure Practices in the National Agroecosystem Model
item Developing Ecophysiological Components for Post-Fire Hydrologic Models
item Developing Integrated Geospatial Architectures to Support Enterprise Deployment of Geographic Information Systems Products at USDA
item Developing Southern Plains Region Management And Resiliency Tools for Agricultural Systems (SMART Ag Systems)
item Developing Strategies for Resilient and Sustainable Crop, Water, and Soil Management in Semi-Arid Environments
item Development and Testing of New Groundwater Phosphorus Model in Selected HUC8 From the National Agroecosystem Model
item Development of a Carbon Dynamics Model for Predicting GHG Emission and Sequestration in Croplands
item Development of a Monitoring Network, Engineering Tools, and Guidelines for the Design, Analysis, and Rehabilitation of Embankment Dams, Hydraulic Structures, and Channels
item Development of an All-lands Wind Erosion Model
item Development of an All-lands Wind Erosion Model
item Development of Data and Tools to Support Precision Dryland Farming
item Development of Engineering Tools, Design Guidance Documents, and Computational Software for Monitoring, Inspecting and Rehabilitating Aging Dams
item Development of Enhanced Tools and Management Strategies to Support Sustainable Agricultural Systems and Water Quality
item Development of Improved Soil Sampling Design Using Geophysical Layers
item Dryland and Irrigated Crop Management Under Limited Water Availability and Drought
item Dryland and Irrigated Crop Management Under Limited Water Availability and Drought - OAP with Kansas State University Phase 2
item Dryland and Irrigated Crop Management Under Limited Water Availability and Drought - OAP with KSU
item Dryland and Irrigated Crop Management Under Limited Water Availability and Drought - OAP with TAMU
item Dryland and Irrigated Crop Management Under Limited Water Availability and Drought - OAP with Texas A&M University Phase 2
item Dryland and Irrigated Crop Management Under Limited Water Availability and Drought - OAP with Texas Tech University Phase 2
item Dryland and Irrigated Crop Management Under Limited Water Availability and Drought - OAP with TTU
item Dryland and Irrigated Crop Management Under Limited Water Availability and Drought - OAP with West Texas A&M University Phase 2
item Dryland and Irrigated Crop Management Under Limited Water Availability and Drought - OAP with WTAMU
item Effects of Grazing Land Management on Soil Organic Carbon in the United States: A Climate Hubs-LTAR Science Synthesis and Translation Collaboration
item Enhance the Agronomic, Economic, Social, and Environmental Sustainability of Agricultural Production Systems
item Enhancement of Erosion Processes and Breach Prediction and Analysis Modules and Other Hydraulic and Hydrologic Support Tools
item Enhancement of Erosion Processes and Breach Prediction and Analysis Modules for Sites and WinDAM and Other Hydraulic and Hydrologic Support Tools
item Enhancement of WinDAM User Interface
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 Establishing a Soil Health Framework for Water-limited Regions
item Evaluating the Agricultural Ecosystems Services (AgES) Watershed Versus Other Models in Snow-dominated Systems
item Evaluation of Management Impacts on Water and Soil Quality using Distributed Hydrologic and Transport Models
item EXCHANGE: Expanding the Conversion of Habitat in the Northern Great Plains Ecosystem
item Expanding NRCS Climate Literacy and Leadership
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 Field-Scale SWAT+ Modeling to Support Regional Legacy P Model Development
item FY 2021 Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) - Benchmark Watershed Assessment Studies (on Croplands) El Reno, OK
item FY 2022, 2023 Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) - Benchmark Watershed Assessment Studies (on croplands) Temple
item FY2021, FY2022 Contribution of Legacy Phosphorus to Watershed Outcomes, Phase 2 (Temple, TX)
item FY23 Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Colorado South Platte River Establishment
item Geospatial Analysis and Modeling of Agrohydrological Variability in the Water-limited Great Plains
item Grass-cast and the Living Labs Framework: Creating a User-driven and Co-developed Product for Working Lands
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 Irrigation Management with Remote Sensing Technology
item Improve the Usage of Remote Sensing and Advanced Machine Learning Algorithms for Crop Management
item Improvement and Maintenance of a Knowledge of a Land-Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS)
item Improving Crop Performance and Precision Irrigation Management in Semi-Arid Regions through Data-Driven Research, AI, and Integrated Models
item Improving Irrigated and Dryland Agriculture Via Xylem, Stomata, and Leaf Traits
item Improving Precision Irrigation Systems for Increased Crop Water Productivity in Different Climates
item Improving Resiliency of Semi-Arid Agroecosystems and Watersheds to Change and Disturbance through Data-Driven Research, AI, and Integrated Models
item Improving Sustainability in Cropping Systems of Semi-arid Regions
item Incorporating Precision Agriculture Equipment to Maximize Profitability in Maryland – Best Practices for Creating Management Zones
item Integrated Agricultural Systems for a Resilient Circular Bioeconomy in the Central Plains
item Integrated Crop – Livestock Systems for the Western Corn Belt
item Integrated Cropland and Rangeland Drought Preparation for Enhanced Climate Resiliency in Utah
item Integrating Field Measurements and Models to Evaluate Solar Induced Fluorescence as a Predictor of Dryland Crop Productivity
item Integration of a New Groundwater Flow and Salinity Model in SWAT+
item Inventory of Forest Resources: Forest Management Resources in New Mexico and Arizona
item Land Health Assessment and Visualization Tools
item Land Management and Monitoring Apps Development
item LANDSCAPE MONITORING
item Long Term Rotation Experiment at ENREC
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 LTER: Long-Term Research at the Jornada Basin
item Managing Manure as a Soil Resource for Improved Biosecurity, Nutrient Availability, and Soil Sustainability
item Missouri River Basin Water Resource Management
item Monitoring and Evaluating Water Resources in Upper Washita River Basin
item Natural Carbon Sinks in Grass and Cropland
item NRATE: Nitrogen Research for Agriculture Transformation and Enhancement
item NRCS COMET-Planner Review of 2018 Farm Bill Conservation Programs in the Southern Plains to Determine Possible Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
item Oklahoma Center for Hydrological Integrated Monitoring, Modeling, and Mitigation
item Operation of the ARS Micronet to Provide a Long-Term, High Spatial Resolution Climate Record for Study of Hydrologic and Agricultural Systems
item Optimized Allocation of Limited Amount of Irrigation Water among Simultaneous Annual Crops at Farm Level (ORDILS)
item Optimizing Cover Crop Decisions for Enhanced Productivity, Resilience and Environmental Sustainability
item Parameterization and Testing of New Groundwater Flow and Salinity Model in the National Agroecosystem Model
item Partitioning of Anthropogenic Radioisotopes on Aeolian Sediments and Erosion-affected Soils
item Precipitation and Irrigation Management to Optimize Profits from Crop Production - OAP 3rd Phase with TTU
item Precipitation and Irrigation Management to Optimize Profits from Crop Production - OAP 3rd Phase with WTAMU
item Precipitation and Irrigation Management to Optimize Profits from Crop Production- OAP 2nd Phase with KSU
item Precipitation and Irrigation Management to Optimize Profits from Crop Production- OAP 3rd Phase with KSU
item Precipitation and Irrigation Management to Optimize Profits from Crop Production- OAP 3rd Phase with TAMU
item Precision Application of Conservation in Upper Midwestern Cropping Systems
item Process Modeling, Machine Learning, and Computational Tools for Watershed Modeling from Fire to Field
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 REEU: Student Career in Agricultural Research, Learning, and Extension Training (SCARLET)
item Remote Sensing and Spatial Simulation of Agricultural Watersheds
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 Soil Response to Agricultural Intensification in the Western Corn Belt
item Stakeholder Development, Student Help, and Educational Opportunities Associated with the Southern Plains LTAR Network Site
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 Sustainability of Groundwater and Irrigated Agriculture in the Western United States Under a Changing Climate
item Sustainable Soils for Healthy Communities and Climate Resilience in the Semi-Arid West
item Technology Development for Sustainable Land Management, Monitoring and Research
item Texas Water Observatory Monitoring at the Riesel Watersheds
item The 4 Directions Projections
item The Association Between the Conservation Reserve Program, Extreme Weather, Water Quality, and Economic Development in the Southern Plains
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 U.S. Department of State Temporary Detail for Jeffrey Herrick
item Understanding Soil and Environmental Effects on Crop Species and Rangeland Ecosystems Under Water Limitation
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 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 Water Use, Growth, and Yield of Cotton and Guayule under Gravity Drip Irrigation
item Wind Erosion Tools and the Landscape Data Commons