Our department addresses the challenge of developing environmentally sustainable agricultural systems to produce food for a world population that is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050. We provide expertise to mitigate the impact of climate change and to develop the potential of sustainable biofuel crops. Our work on nutrient and carbon fluxes in ecosystems helps increase nutrient use efficiency, improve soil health and solve greenhouse-gas issues. We have three major program areas: Crop Science, Soil Science, and Environmental Information Systems. We promote productive and sustainable land use practices on regional, national, and international scales. Our main thematic areas focus on food production systems, sustainable agroecosystem management, and linkages between agriculture and environmental change. To learn more about the department's research themes, click here.
Emerson and Bradfield Halls, home to CSS
Thea Whitman recipient of the 2013 CALS Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award and Dan Buckley Director of Graduate Studies.
- CSS Seminars
Seminars will resume Fall Semester 2013August 2013
12:20p - 1:10p
135 Emerson Hall
- "What's Cropping Up?" A newsletter for New York Field Crops & Soils
Administrative Offices
232 Emerson Hall
Phone: (607) 255-5459
Fax: (607) 255-2644
- Faculty Programs
Agricultural Science
Bioenergy and Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Crop Science
Environmental Science
International Programs
Soil Science
Weed Science - Institutes and Laboratories
Cornell Nutrient Analysis Laboratory (CNAL)
Cornell Waste Management Institute (CWMI)
Institute for Resource Information Sciences (IRIS)
Gary Fick
Professor
Dr. Fick has studied the ecology and management of forage crops since he came to Cornell University. He has been especially interested in alfalfa and in methods of predicting alfalfa forage quality as the crop is growing in the field. In addition, he has been teaching three or four subjects each... Read Gary Fick's full profile