Climate Change

Anticipated Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture in Washington State

Whittemore, A., Kruger, C.E., Rajagopalan, K., Doonan, K., Phelps, M.P., Hall, S.A., LaHue, G., Gelardi, D.L., and Yorgey, G.G., 2025. Anticipated Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture in Washington State. Washington State University Extension. Synthesizes current research on how climate change is expected to affect agriculture across Washington state’s diverse production systems.

A Climate Roadmap for Washington State Dairy

Higginbotham, A.J.K., Brown, C., Porter, J., Stoermann, M., David, W., Vander Molen, J., Gearhart, T., Neibergs, S., Nyoni, N.M.B., Gibson, K., Yorgey, G.G., 2025. A Climate Roadmap for Washington State Dairy. Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Washington State University. Evidence-based strategies to help Washington dairies lower emissions, improve water and air quality, and strengthen environmental stewardship statewide.

Engaged! A Conversation on Enabling Community Engaged Research at WSU

Hall, S.A., McLarty, S., Padowski, J.C., Boll, J. 2025. Engaged! A Conversation on Enabling Community Engaged Research at WSU. Center for Environmental Research, Education and Outreach (CEREO). Washington State University. The Engaged! report summarizes a 2025 WSU summit that identified barriers and proposed university-wide actions to strengthen, coordinate, and elevate community-engaged research across disciplines and […]

Unlocking the Biofuel Power of Cover Crops in Washington State: Enhancing Potential Through Hydrothermal Liquefaction. Biomass and Bioenergy

Santosa, D. M., Potter, T., Pierobon, F., Göreke, D., Meyer, P. A., Kruger, C. E., Norberg, S., Collins, D., & Male, J. (2025). Unlocking the biofuel power of cover crop in Washington State: Enhancing potential through hydrothermal liquefaction. Biomass and Bioenergy, 203, 108311.  Study explores whether Washington cover crops can serve as profitable, low-carbon feedstocks […]

Concurrently Assessing Water Supply and Demand is Critical For Evaluating Vulnerabilities to Climate Change

Hall, Sonia A., Aaron Whittemore, Julie Padowski, Matthew Yourek, Georgine G. Yorgey, Kirti Rajagopalan, Sasha McLarty et al; 2024. “Concurrently Assessing Water Supply and Demand is Critical For Evaluating Vulnerabilities to Climate Change.” JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 60 (2): 543–571. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13192.

Digging deeper: Assessing the predictive power of common greenhouse gas accounting tools for soil carbon sequestration under organic amendment

Ball, KR., Burke, IC., Collins, DP., Kruger, CE., Yorgey, GG. 2023. Digging deeper: Assessing the predictive power of common greenhouse gas accounting tools for soil carbon sequestration under organic amendment. Journal of Cleaner Production. 429:139448 ↑ Back to top

Climate analogs can catalyze cross-regional dialogs for US specialty crop adaptation

Chaudhary, S., Rajagopalan, K., Kruger, C.E., Brady, M.P., Fraisse, C.W., Gustafson, D.I., Hall, S.A., Hoogenboom, G., Melnick, R., Reyes, J., Stockle, C.O., Sulser, T.B. 2023. Climate analogs can catalyze cross-regional dialogs for US specialty crop adaptation. Scientific Reports 13, 9317. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-35887-x