Soil health practices such as reduced tillage, cover crops, and nitrogen
fertilizer management affect greenhouse gas emissions in many ways.
This seminar will use the
FAST-GHG tool,
which allows a user to consider the different ways these practices and
their interactions affect greenhouse gas emissions. Participants will
come away with a better understanding of how crop and soil nitrogen
cycling, crop yield, and equipment use affect the greenhouse gas impacts
of different soil health practices (such as reduced tillage, cover
crops, and nitrogen fertilizer management).
This series is co-hosted with the USDA Northeast Climate Hub.
The Soils section on October 21, is also co-hosted with the Soil Health Initiative.
This series is supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Smith Lever Project 2019-20-110.
BIO
Peter Woodbury is a Senior Research
Associate in the Section of Soil and Crop Sciences at Cornell
University. He has decades of experience researching how air quality,
water quality, and soil quality are affected by climate change, and also
how agriculture and forestry can mitigate and adapt to climate change.
For example, Dr. Woodbury has worked with an international team to
assess Natural Climate Solutions, quantifying how 20 pathways of
improved management of agricultural, forest, and wetlands can reduce GHG
emissions to meet 37% of the Paris Agreement target by year 2030
globally, and offset 21% of US emissions.