Climate Change & Air Quality Research

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

-Dr. Jane Goodall

About us

We are a part of the USDA-ARS Plant Science Research Unit (PSRU). Our mission is to come up with scientific solutions that improve the sustainability of food and agricultural ecosystems in the face of inclement future climate change.

Temperatures are likely to increase by 1.5 degrees Celsius between 2030 to 2052 at current rates. 

-ICPP special report- Global Warming of 1.5oC 

Ground-level ozone continuously impacts human and plant health.

-Zhou et al., 2018