Agriculture and forestry

Several AGS projects involve assessing the environmental impacts of different land-use management practices performed in agricultural and forestry operations, in particular their consequences on carbon (C) sequestration and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (i.e., N2O, CH4, and NO). Significant investments are now being made by agricultural and forestry groups in assessing C sequestration in crop and forest soils due to the potential for trading carbon credits coupled with significant environmental benefits through improved soil quality, soil fertility and reduced erosion potential. To this end, the performance of farming practices such as irrigation methods, fertilization, the use of reduced tillage or no-till, the use of cover crops, and others are being evaluated. The detection of forest cover change is also of equal importance.

Through the use of remote sensing and biogeochemical modeling, AGS seeks to quantify nutrient cycling in crop and forest soils and to evaluate resultant GHG emissions and performance of management practices. Several projects of this type are ongoing and have been employed in California, select locations over the Midwestern U.S., and a large portion of China. Specific services provided by AGS include:

Advising on design of projects to store carbon in forests and soils;
Developing improved methods for measuring and modeling changes in terrestrial carbon;
Modeling alternative management strategies for sequestering carbon and minimizing release of N2O, CH4 and NO from forest and agricultural soils.
Verifying measurements and calculations of changes in terrestrial carbon stocks;
Providing professional education about how to construct and carry out carbon sequestration and GHG mitigation projects.

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