Agriculture and Climate

Welcome to the Agriculture and Climate Cluster

Agriculture and Climate Cluster (ACC) Logo

Agriculture and Climate Cluster Mission Statement
Agriculture and Climate Cluster Plan (2016)

Recent Focal Topics

Proceedings from ESIP Meetings

ESIP 2021 Summer Meeting Materials for the session 'Identifying technology capabilities that meet wildfire science and practitioner requirements'
ESIP 2021 Winter Meeting Materials for the session 'Carbon Management, Food, Agriculture, Human well-being: Using informatics to connect the climate action dots'
ESIP 2021 Winter Meeting Materials for the session 'Science and the US Government: Where does your contribution fit into the picture?'
ESIP 2020 Summer Meeting Materials for the session 'Community concept mapping for data-to-decisions – Use cases in climate adaptation, disaster planning, and disaster response
ESIP 2020 Summer Meeting Ontology Tutorial
ESIP 2016 Winter and Summer Meetings on the Climate Resilience Toolkit
ESIP 2013 Summer Meeting Materials for the session 'Cultivating a Climate and Agriculture Cluster'

Resources

USDA Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) Network
Northern Plains region (Mt, ND, SD, WY, Nb, and CO)
NASA missions relevant to LTAR (Added 05/08/14; updated 02/02/15)
Climate Resilience Toolkit Case Studies (Added 09/13/16)
Research Data Alliance (RDA) (Added 04/16/18; updated 06/25/18)
Potential collaborations
Our Food Systems Are Complicated. Food Data Don’t Have to Be
FAO - The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2020
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Community concept mapping activity March 2020 through July 2020
Mother Jones article on "Could Paying Farmers to Store Carbon Help the Climate and Save Farms?"
IBM Watson Research Center's Siyuan Lu's presentation to 2020-03-03 telecon [Youtube Video of Telecon] (2020-03-03)
CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) (New content 07/10/18)
AI / machine learning-related (New content 10/16/20)
Food Systems Dashboard
- Related companies (Added 02/21/20)
AgMIP-related (New content 06/27/17)
- Feeding a Hungry Planet: Agriculture, Nutrition and Sustainability FREE, massive open online course from the SDG Academy (New content 04/04/18)
UAS/Drones-related (New content 03/20/20)
Data Driven Farming Prize (Added 03/20/17)
New grants foster research on food, energy and water: a linked system (NSF press release Aug. 14, 2015 (Added 10/06/15)
Climate Resilience Toolkit (CRT) (Added 10/06/15)
- Storytelling (Added 04/10/19)
Review of past and ongoing work on climate effects on agriculture (TBD)
From the news (New content 02/05/21)
- Responding to Climate Change (RTCC) "News and analysis website focused on providing the latest updates and insight into global low carbon developments" (Added 02/20/15)
From the literature (New content 04/16/20)
From presentations (New content 04/08/17)
Related organizations
USDA Blog - Climate Change (Added 09/13/16)
Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN) (Added 01/28/15)
Bridging across bridges: engaging the geoscience research community in standards development (Added 01/23/15)
H2infO (of U.S. Water Partnership (Added 10/09/14)
USGCRP Web site (Added 09/24/14)
Climate Data Initiative (Added 07/29/14)
National Climate Assessment (Added 05/07/14)
National Climate Change Viewer (Added 06/03/14)
NEON and its relationship to LTAR
Climate Change and Agriculture in the United States — Effects and Adaptation (Added 06/11/14)
LTAR roadmap (Added 09-20-13)
USDA ARS STEWARDS: Sustaining the Earth's Watersheds, Agricultural Research Data System (Added, 04/14/14)
Bill's webex presentation on "ESIP 101" and related projects and upcoming missions at LTAR monthly webex meeting (09-16-13).

Get Involved

Email List (sign up and manage your preferences here):
ESIP-AgClimate

Telecons:
- First Tuesday of every month (2-3 pm Eastern Time)
  - 2021-09-07
  - 2021-10-05
  - 2021-11-02
  - 2021-12-07
- To join the meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone, click: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82026434814?pwd=Z0lnYUxzZklkUm10VEZKT015b3luZz09
- You can also dial in using your phone.
  - United States: +1 (224) 501-3412
  - Access Code: 534-768-669

Cluster Contacts:
- Co-Chairs: Bill Teng (william.l.teng@nasa.gov) and Brian Wee (bwee@massiveconnections.com)

Meeting minutes from monthly telecons:
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013