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Research Project:
EVALUATION OF CARBON SEQUESTRATION POTENTIAL OF PRAIRIE POTHOLE WETLANDS
Location: Morris, Minnesota
2006 Annual Report
4d.Progress report.
This report serves to document research conducted under a reimbursable agreement between ARS and the U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey. Additional details of research can be found in the report for the parent CRIS 3645-12610-001-00D, "Soil and Crop Management Systems to Sustain Agricultural Production and Environmental Quality in the Northern Great Plains." USGS supported the agreement where USDA-ARS-NCSCRL provided the analytical chemistry work on 2800 wetland soil samples and 1350 biomass samples. In performing these analyses, the Lab and ARS gained new insights into the importance of wetlands as a Carbon sink, and gained new experiences in managing large samples and in conducting new chemical analyses procedures. The high level of accuracy and the timely analysis within the budget limits provided by USGS add to the reputation of this Lab as a reliable analytical lab and to ARS as an agency providing reliable answers to applied problems of national importance. USGS has requested that the agreement be extended from 3/30/06 to 09/30/2007 to analyze additional samples in support of the existing research on this agreement.
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Last Modified: 11/07/2008
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