Diverse agricultural and environmental science programs focus on sustainable management and use of natural resources.
Sustainability and productivity of agricultural lands
- Center for Precision and Automated Agriculture Systems (CPAAS)
- Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources (CSANR)
- Soil Health Initiative
- Lynne Carpenter-Boggs, sustainable and organic agriculture; biological soil fertility
- Doug Collins, soil quality and production in organic farming systems
- Deirdre Griffin LaHue, impacts of agricultural practices on soil health and organisms
- Dave Huggins, conservation farming and agroecology
- Marcia Ostrom, agroecology and sustainable food systems; agrifood movements
- John Reganold, sustainability of alternative and conventional farming systems
- Bill Schillinger, conservation-till and no-till farming systems
Mechanisms of enhanced carbon sequestration
- CSANR Climate Friendly Farming
- John Harrison, global change and watershed biogeochemistry
- Dave Huggins, carbon cycling and sequestration in agricultural systems
- Kent Keller, carbon exports from terrestrial ecosystems
- Marc Kramer, carbon stabilization in soil; biogeochemistry of wind
Enhanced nitrogen fixation by plant-associated microbes
- Maren Friesen, beneficial plant-microbe interactions
- Michael Kahn, symbiosis between N-fixing Rhizobium bacteria and legumes
- Florence Mus, engineering synthetic symbioses between plants and bacteria
- John Peters, gene expression in and evolution of biological N fixation
- Sarah Roley, ecological significance of N fixation in perennial grasses
Hydrological processes in agriculture
- Michael Brady, economics of water use and irrigated agriculture
- Markus Flury, flow and transport in the vadose zone
- Pete Jacoby, sub-surface micro-irrigation for high value specialty crops
- Gabe LaHue, soil-water relations; water-nutrient interactions
- Haly Neely, interaction of soil, water, and plants at the field-scale
- William Schillinger, water use efficiency in cropping systems
Water conservation, remediation, and nutrient cycling
- Center for Environmental Research, Education, and Outreach (CEREO)
- CSANR Water for Agriculture
- Land, Air, Water Resources & Environmental Engineering
- State of Washington Water Research Center
- Washington Stormwater Center
- Watershed Integrated Systems Dynamics Modeling (WISDM)
- Henry Adams, influence of drought on forest health and management
- Joe Cook, water resource economics; stormwater and green infrastructure
- John Harrison, global change and watershed biogeochemistry
- Kent Keller, groundwater biogeochemistry and nutrient transport
- Allyson Beall King, collaborative modeling for water management
- Jenifer McIntyre, toxic impacts of urban runoff on aquatic animals
- Kevan Moffett, urban ecohydrology
Environmentally sustainable animal production
- Kris Johnson, air quality and ruminant production
- Michael Phelps, mechanisms of thermal tolerance in Chinook salmon