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Soil organic carbon is vital for healthy soils and plays an important role in terrestrial carbon cycling.

June 3, 2023

USDA grant supports development of soil organic carbon assessment training to broaden information access

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Agricultural Sustainability, DEI efforts, Earth and Environmental Sciences, KBS, USDA-NRCS, soil carbon, training materials

A research team led by Michigan State University ecosystems scientist Bruno Basso has received a $1.95 million U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) grant to develop and disseminate educational information on soil organic carbon evaluation. The training materials will be geared toward underserved agriculture professionals in Maine, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York and Vermont.

The importance of agriculture is impossible to overstate, providing the food, fiber and fuel that supports a growing world population. Farmers, scientists and corporations are investigating ways to make this indispensable industry more sustainable.

March 17, 2023

New MSU research helps better quantify soil carbon stock changes

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Earth and Environmental Sciences, ees, regenerative agriculture, soil carbon

June 15, 2021

MSU's Bruno Basso lands inaugural Morgan Stanley sustainability award

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Agricultural Sustainability, Environmental Science, MySOC, carbon credits, faculty, regenerative agriculture, research, soil carbon

In an exciting collaboration between MSU's Bruno Basso and Skidmore College's Kristofer Covey, farmers in the United States will have an opportunity to cultivate a sustainable future for themselves and the planet with MySOC, a platform that measures soil carbon through app-led field methods, sophisticated remote sensing technology and biophysical modelling recently awarded a $250,000 prize from the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Solutions Collaborative.