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Cache Valley Daily Wednesday, Oct. 05, 2022
USU professors join national carbon storing research
A five-year, $15 million research project funded by the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) will look at Carbon Sequestration, the concept of locking carbon into soils.
Jennifer Reeve and Matt Yost of Utah State University’s Department of Plants, Soils and Climate are among the collaborators on the project, which is bringing together researchers from North and South America.
Yost explains the challenge.
“There’s a lot of interest in getting carbon into the soil,” says Yost. “We have a lot of carbon in the atmosphere and it’s causing some issues. There are a lot of efforts nationally and locally to offset some of that carbon in the atmosphere and to store it in places like the soil where it can stay and be stable for a long time.”