{"id":38,"date":"2019-12-21T16:54:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T16:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ascilab.colostate.edu\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2026-08-10T21:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:15:32","slug":"new-title-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ascilab.colostate.edu\/","title":{"rendered":"Agricultural Sustainability &#038; Climate Impacts Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"hero alignfull\">\n\t<div class=\"hero-inner\">\n\t\t<h1>Agricultural Sustainability &amp; Climate Impacts Lab<\/h1>\n\t\t<p class=\"tagline\">Using spatial data science to understand \u2014 and adapt to \u2014 climate risk in the world&#8217;s food systems.<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"dept-line\">Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability \u00b7 Department of Soil and Crop Sciences<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"foci-cards alignfull\">\n\t<div class=\"foci-card ag\">\n\t\t<div class=\"foci-card-photo\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"foci-card-body\">\n\t\t\t<h2>Agricultural sustainability<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>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.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"foci-card climate\">\n\t\t<div class=\"foci-card-photo\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"foci-card-body\">\n\t\t\t<h2>Climate impacts and adaptation<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>What risks does a changing climate pose to agriculture, and how can farmers adapt? We&#8217;re investigating climate risks to crop yields and irrigation water supplies.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"approach alignfull\">\n\t<div class=\"approach-inner\">\n\t\t<h2>Approach<\/h2>\n\t\t<div class=\"approach-tags\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"approach-tag\">Spatial data science<\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"approach-tag\">Environmental modeling<\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"approach-tag\">Machine learning<\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"approach-tag\">Remote sensing<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ticker-section alignfull\" id=\"lab-news\">\n\t<h2>Lab news<\/h2>\n\t<div class=\"ticker\">\n\t\t<div class=\"ticker-item\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ticker-date\">Jul 2026<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ticker-text\">New paper in <em>Nature Climate Change<\/em>: a spatially explicit global assessment of cropland greenhouse gas emissions circa 2020, with Nathan Mueller and Avery Driscoll among the co-authors. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-026-02558-4\">Read the paper \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"ticker-item\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ticker-date\">Jun 2026<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ticker-text\">Congrats to Alison King on the new <em>Global Change Biology<\/em> paper showing soil organic carbon improves crop yield and yield resilience. <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/gcb.70909\">Read the paper \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"ticker-item\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ticker-date\">Feb 2025<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ticker-text\">Our funded PhD position for summer\/fall 2025 has been filled \u2014 thank you to everyone who applied.<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"find-us alignfull\">\n\t<div class=\"find-us-text\">\n\t\t<h2>Find us<\/h2>\n\t\t<address>\n\t\t\tNatural and Environmental Sciences Building<br>\n\t\t\tColorado State University<br>\n\t\t\t1231 East Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80521\n\t\t<\/address>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"find-us-map\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ascilab.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FortCollins_terrain-e1577995788347-1024x901.png\" alt=\"Terrain map of Fort Collins and the surrounding Front Range\">\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability<br \/>\nDepartment of Soil and Crop Sciences<br \/>\nColorado State University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"{\"coblocks-features-1128103942887\":{\"margin\":{\"marginTop\":\"px\",\"marginRight\":\"0px\",\"marginBottom\":\"0px\",\"marginLeft\":\"0px\",\"marginTopTablet\":null,\"marginRightTablet\":null,\"marginBottomTablet\":null,\"marginLeftTablet\":null,\"marginTopMobile\":null,\"marginRightMobile\":null,\"marginBottomMobile\":null,\"marginLeftMobile\":null},\"padding\":{\"paddingTop\":\"px\",\"paddingRight\":\"px\",\"paddingBottom\":\"px\",\"paddingLeft\":\"px\",\"paddingTopTablet\":null,\"paddingRightTablet\":null,\"paddingBottomTablet\":null,\"paddingLeftTablet\":null,\"paddingTopMobile\":null,\"paddingRightMobile\":null,\"paddingBottomMobile\":null,\"paddingLeftMobile\":null}},\"coblocks-hero-1128111850340\":{\"padding\":{}}}","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascilab.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascilab.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascilab.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ascilab.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ascilab.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":100,"href":"https:\/\/ascilab.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/ascilab.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascilab.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}