Cooperative Agreement G17AC00040

This $749,830 federal Project Grant awarded by the Institute of Bioenergy, Climate, and Environment (a division of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) will fund research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to evaluate the potential of "ecological intensification" practices, such as cover crops and manure application, to improve soil health, sequester carbon, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $323,935 Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin System to conduct collaborative research on modeling soil organic matter composition at a continental scale. The project aims to reconcile debates around the nature of soil organic matter and the factors controlling its decomposition and ability to supply nitrogen to plants. The research team will leverage existing data and new measurements from the National...

This $1,000,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.303 - Integrated Programs) aims to increase sustainable organic production within the Pacific Northwest, Southeast, and Northeast regions of the United States. The key objectives are to evaluate the impacts of integrating livestock grazing under various cropping systems on farms transitioning to organic systems, determine the effects of cover crops and grazing...

This $960,000 Project Grant awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Integrated Programs (CFDA 10.303) is designed to examine the effectiveness of biochar-based soil amendments on improving soil health, vegetable yields, and economic profitability for organic vegetable growers transitioning to organic production. The project will conduct on-farm learning trials and controlled experiments at university research centers to...

This $371,175 project grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program. The goal of this collaborative research project is to develop a functional model for predicting soil organic matter composition and cycling at the continental scale. Researchers from the University of Georgia Research Foundation will leverage existing data and new samples from the National Ecological Observatory...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) (CFDA 10.310) totaling $749,045 is designed to comprehensively assess the long-term (10-15 year) impacts of early- and late-terminated cover crops on soil organic carbon pools and soil health indicators within the soil profile to at least 1 meter depth. The project will leverage two existing 10-year experiments in...

This Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) provides $225,000.00 to Colorado State University to investigate how different farming practices, particularly integrated crop-livestock systems, affect soil health. The research aims to identify practical ways to enhance soil health, increase crop yields, and contribute to climate change mitigation by improving...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $392,802 will fund research from March 2022 through February 2025 to quantify relationships between topography, soil properties, and soil organic carbon in fire-prone landscapes in Oregon. The awardee, University of Oregon, will collect data on the extent, depth, and age of soil organic carbon at recently burned mountainous study sites in southwest Oregon. The research aims to inform soil management and carbon sequestration efforts by examining...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project grant, awarded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), is focused on developing novel soil organic matter (SOM) amendment techniques to improve nutrient supply, sustain agriculture, and provide long-term, deep soil carbon sequestration to combat climate change. The $274,390 award to Earthen Carbon LLC aims to: 1) demonstrate viable integration of the SOM...

This $200,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Texas A&M Agrilife Research to develop self-organizing principles for upscaling ecosystem water and heterotrophic carbon fluxes. The research aims to understand how heterotrophic respiration varies across biomes and climates depending on macroscopic environmental variables such as rainfall and vegetation productivity. It combines experimental data from multiple observational networks and mathematical models of...