Brief description of the project: We are partnering with the Rodale Institute on a $25M project from the USDA’s Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities program. The project title is “Quantifying the Potential to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Increase Carbon Sequestration by Growing and Marketing Climate-Smart Commodities in the Southern Piedmont”.

Brief description of the project: We are organizing workshops, field days, outreach and community engagement activities on climate smart and regenerative agricultural practices in GA through this USDA project from the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program.

Total Funding: $1,655,957 (Emory: $329,238) Meet our multi-institute collaborative team members: Woodwell Climate Research Center, lead institute: Jennifer Watts (PI), Kathleen Savage (Co-PI) Emory University: Debjani Sihi (PI) San Diego State University: Xiaofeng Xu (PI) Arizona State University: Hinsby Cadillo-Quiroz (PI) University of Maine: Shawn Fraver (PI) USDA Forest Service: David Hollinger (Collaborator)

Funding source: Halle Institute for Global Research, Emory University and The Halle Foundation Collaborative Research Grant

Funding source: National Science Foundation, Macrosystem Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (Award #: DEB-2106137)

Funding source: US Department of Energy Office of Science, Environmental System Science (Award #: DE-SC0022314)