Agricultural Sustainability & Climate Impacts Lab

Using spatial data science to understand — and adapt to — climate risk in the world’s food systems.

Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability · Department of Soil and Crop Sciences

Agricultural sustainability

How can we achieve a better balance between food production and the health of global environmental systems? Recent work shows how soil organic carbon can buffer crop yields and investigates the net GHG impacts of irrigation.

Climate impacts and adaptation

What risks does a changing climate pose to agriculture, and how can farmers adapt? We’re investigating climate risks to crop yields and irrigation water supplies.

Approach

Spatial data science Environmental modeling Machine learning Remote sensing

Lab news

Jul 2026

New paper in Nature Climate Change: a spatially explicit global assessment of cropland greenhouse gas emissions circa 2020, with Nathan Mueller and Avery Driscoll among the co-authors. Read the paper →

Jun 2026

Congrats to Alison King on the new Global Change Biology paper showing soil organic carbon improves crop yield and yield resilience. Read the paper →

Feb 2025

Our funded PhD position for summer/fall 2025 has been filled — thank you to everyone who applied.

Find us

Natural and Environmental Sciences Building
Colorado State University
1231 East Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80521

Terrain map of Fort Collins and the surrounding Front Range