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Program Areas

The Office of Arid Lands Studies performs multidisciplinary research on the arid regions of the world in the following broad program areas (to be filled out)... For each, its scope and the current and past projects are described, as well as current OALS personnel working on projects in that area.

• Decision Support Systems Development
• Food Security Assessment and Agricultural Monitoring
• Land Use Planning and Management
• Natural Products Chemistry and Genetics, Economic Botany, and New Crop Development
• Natural Resources Monitoring and Assessment
• Water and Land Conservation and Reclamation
• Information Dissemination, Knowledge Transfer, and Education