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Two Elected to National Academy of Engineering

Katherine E Kerlin — February 10, 2022 - 1:45pm

Two professors from the ��Ƶ, Davis, have been elected as members of the National Academy of Engineering. Professors Kate Scow and Daniel Sperling join 13 other current ��Ƶ faculty members who are in the academy. (See list here.)

Compost Key to Sequestering Carbon in the Soil

Katherine E Kerlin — August 14, 2019 - 3:24pm

By moving beyond the surface level and literally digging deep, scientists at the ��Ƶ, Davis, found that compost is a key to storing carbon in semi-arid cropland soils, a strategy for offsetting CO2 emissions.

For their 19-year study, published in the journal Global Change Biology, scientists dug roughly 6 feet down to compare soil carbon changes in conventional, cover-cropped and compost-added plots of corn-tomato and wheat-fallow cropping systems. They found that:

A Climate Change Solution Beneath Our Feet

Katherine E Kerlin — June 07, 2017 - 9:00am

Healthy soils can be a climate solution, helping farmers, ranchers and ��Ƶ scientists flip the picture of too much carbon in the atmosphere and not enough in the ground.