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BARC West campus houses the administration building for NEA and BARC offices as well as laboratories, greenhouses and environmental facilities. A wide variety of research projects are conducted including fruit and vegetable improvement, cropping systems, plant disease agents, insect pests, genomics, environmental studies and human nutrition.
 The Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit (PSWMRU, University Park, PA) operates Mahantango Creek Experimental Watershed, as an outdoor laboratory to study agricultural management and hydrologic processes.
 Sorting Atlantic salmon at the National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center: Franklin, ME.  Research addresses genetic improvement, growth and development, health, and sustainable production systems for Atlantic salmon and for cold water marine finfish species.
 Appalachian Fruit Research Station in Kearneysville West Virginia,  home of Innovative Fruit Production, Improvement and Protection.****Traditional breeding and biotechnology strategies are used to improve the quality, productivity and disease resistance of apple, pear and stone fruits.
 Since completion by the CCC in 1937, the Log Lodge has served a variety of functions including CCC recreation, USDA VIP luncheons (Khrushev 1959, Eisenhower, etc), Presidential card games (Roosevelt), Center cafeteria, BARC Visitor Center and ARS National Visitor Center.  Since 2014, the lodge has been used for meetings and conferences.
 Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC, Plum Island, NY) is the nation’s primary research center for preventing accidental or intentional introduction of foreign animal diseases
 Dairy area of the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) In Beltsville MD (circa 1980) .  Projects at the dairy facility include feeding studies, breeding, increasing milk production, waste management and bovine diseases. The 7000 acre farm also has laboratories studying poultry, bees, goats and pigs.


Northeast Area Offices
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 Washington, D.C.
 National Arboretum
                                                                Floral and Nursery Plants Research
                                                                Public Horticulture and Engagement Unit
 Newark, Delaware
 Beneficial Insects Introduction Research Unit
 Boston, Massachusetts
 Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center On Aging
 Beltsville, Maryland (BHNRC)
 Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center
                                                                Diet, Genomics and Immunology Laboratory
                                                                Food Components and Health Laboratory
                                                                Food Surveys Research Group
                                                                Human Study Unit
                                                                Methods and Application of Food Composition Laboratory
                                                                Food for Health of People and the Environment Lab
 Beltsville, Maryland (BARC)
 Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
                                                                Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory
                                                                Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory
                                                                Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory
                                                                Adaptive Cropping Systems Laboratory
                                                                Environmental Microbial & Food Safety Laboratory
                                                                Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory
                                                                Animal Biosciences & Biotechnology Laboratory
                                                                Bee Research Laboratory
                                                                National Germplasm Resources Laboratory
                                                                Invasive Insect Biocontrol & Behavior Laboratory
                                                                Genetic Improvement for Fruits & Vegetables Laboratory
                                                                Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory
                                                                Soybean Genomics & Improvement Laboratory
                                                                Systematic Entomology Laboratory
                                                                Sustainable Perennial Crops Laboratory
                                                                Food Quality Laboratory
                                                                Mycology and Nematology Genetic Diversity and Biology Laboratory
 Frederick, Maryland
 Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research
 Orono, Maine
 New England Plant, Soil and Water Research Laboratory
                                                        National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center
 Geneva, New York
 Plant Genetic Resources Unit (PGRU)
                                                        Grape Genetics Research Unit (GGRU)
 Ithaca, New York
 Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & Health
                                                                Plant, Soil and Nutrition Research
                                                                Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research
 University Park, Pennsylvania
 Pasture Systems & Watershed Management Research
 Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania
 Eastern Regional Research Center
                                                                Characterization and Interventions for Foodborne Pathogens
                                                                Microbial and Chemical Food Safety
                                                                Dairy and Functional Foods Research
                                                                Sustainable Biofuels and Co-products Research
 Kearneysville, West Virginia
 Appalachian Fruit Research Laboratory
                                                                Innovative Fruit Production, Improvement, and Protection
 Leetown, West Virginia
 Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture Research
 Burlington, Vermont
 Food Systems Research Unit


Research Projects
				    More... Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Excretion of Food Components and their Impact on Chronic Disease Risk (BRIDGE) Accelerating Blueberry and Cranberry Improvement by Exploiting Germplasm Resources and Multi-omics Technologies Accelerating Genetic Improvement of Ruminants Through Enhanced Genome Assembly, Annotation, and Selection


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