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**Collaborations**
The Oklahoma and Central Plains Agricultural Research Center has a long and productive history of collaborative research involving stakeholders.

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Current collaborators and projects:
                            Climate Change Education for Teachers and Students in the Southern Plains Climate Hub Region                        
                            Climate Change Education for Teacher Professional Development                        
                            Using Natural Sources of Tannins to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Cattle Grazing Winter Annual Pasture                        
                            Climate Conversations with Historically Underserved Farmers and Ranchers of Oklahoma                        
                            Enhancement of Erosion Processes and Breach Prediction and Analysis Modules and Other Hydraulic and Hydrologic Support Tools                        
                            Characterization of Thecaphora frezzii Isolates in Argentina                        
                            Increasing Water Productivity, Nutrient Efficiency and Soil Health in Rainfed Food Systems of Semi-Aris Southern Great Plains                        
                            Quantification of Breed Type by Environment Interactions for Growth, Carcass Yield, and Quality                        
                            USDA-ARS Science Communication & Outreach Specialist for Agriculture and Climate in the U.S. Southern Plains                        
                            Enhancement of Erosion Processes and Breach Prediction and Analysis Modules for Sites and WinDAM and Other Hydraulic and Hydrologic Support Tools                        
                            Breeding and Deployment of Smut Resistant Peanut Cultivars                        
                            Enhancement of WinDAM User Interface                        
                            Climate Mitigation Outreach and Education                        
                            Development of Engineering Tools, Design Guidance Documents, and Computational Software for Monitoring, Inspecting and Rehabilitating Aging Dams                        
                            Developing Integrated Geospatial Architectures to Support Enterprise Deployment of Geographic Information Systems Products at USDA                        
                            Development and Release of Improved Peanut Germplasm and Varieties for the U.S. Southern Plains                        
                            Bacterial Endosymbiont Effects on Biology of Cereal Aphids and Key Natural Enemies in Cereal Agroecosystems                        
                            Quantifying the Effects of Growing System on the Carcass Yield from Beef Calves                        
                            Studies of Genetic Mechanisms of Sorghum Resistance to Aphids                        
                            Evaluating Wild-Derived Peanut Germplasm for Resistance to Aspergillus Seed Colonization                        
                            Oklahoma Center for Hydrological Integrated Monitoring, Modeling, and Mitigation                        
                            Operation of the ARS Micronet to Provide a Long-Term, High Spatial Resolution Climate Record for Study of Hydrologic and Agricultural Systems                        
                            Evaluation of Advanced Breeding Lines and Current Peanut Varieties Performance Under Managed Conditions Across Oklahoma                        
                            Burning and Mowing to Increase Utilization of Little Bluestem in Mixed-grass Rangelands                        
                            Phenotyping for Pythium Pod Rot Resistance                        
                            NRCS COMET-Planner Review of 2018 Farm Bill Conservation Programs in the Southern Plains to Determine Possible Greenhouse Gas Mitigation                        
                            Effects of Grazing Land Management on Soil Organic Carbon in the United States: A Climate Hubs-LTAR Science Synthesis and Translation Collaboration                        
                            Software and Database Development Related to Forage and Animal Production Systems                        
                            Climate-informed Assessment of Water Availability and Adaptive Management for Cropping Systems in the Fort Cobb Reservoir Experimental Watershed                        
                            Dam Analysis Modernization of Tools, Applications, Guidance and Standardization (DAM-TAGS) Project                        
                            Wheat Breeding and Variety Development (Wheat Improvement Team)                        
                            Introgression of Aphid Resistance Genes from Ae. Tauschii into Bread Wheat                        
                            DAM-TAGS: A Continuation of Modernization of Decision Support Tools, Guidance, Standardization, Training, and Outreach                        
                            Efficient Methods for Phenotyping Pods for Peanut Smut                        
                            Climate Conversation with NRCS and Conservation Partnership Personnel                        
                            X-ray System for Detecting Peanut Smut in Pods                        
                            Determining the Host Suitability and If Cross-resistance Exists for Cereal and Grass Crops Infested by the Hedgehog Grain Aphid in the Great Plains                        
                            Validation and Delivery of Sugarcane Aphid + Natural Enemy Threshold Sampling Plans in Grain Sorghum                        
                            Collaborative Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) Oversight between Oklahoma State University and ARS-Stillwater                        
                            Evaluation of Advanced Breeding Lines and Current Peanut Varieties Performance Under Managed Conditions Across Oklahoma                        
                            Monitoring and Evaluating Water Resources in Upper Washita River Basin                        
                            Stakeholder Development, Student Help, and Educational Opportunities Associated with the Southern Plains LTAR Network Site                        
                            Developing Southern Plains Region Management And Resiliency Tools for Agricultural Systems (SMART Ag Systems)                        
                            Prebreeding of peanut for resistance to root-knot nematodes and disease                        
                            Sorghum Aphid Ecological Model for Improved Areawide Pest Management                        
                            Rumen Microbial Communities in Forage-based Beef Stockering and Cow Management Systems in the Southern Great Plains                        
                            Development of an Analogue Weather Forecast Using Machine Learning and K Nearest Neighbor Algorithms                        
                            Cooperative production of hay and other forage crops on USDA/ARS property at Grazinglands Research Laboratory in El Reno, OK                        
                            Organomineral Fertilizers: A Sustainable Fertility Option for Farmers?                        
                            Evaluation of Management Impacts on Water and Soil Quality using Distributed Hydrologic and Transport Models                        
                            Missouri River Basin Water Resource Management                        
                            Enhancing Climate-smart Disaster Relief in FSA Programs: Non-stationarity at the Intersection of Normal Grazing Periods and US Drought Assessment                        
                            Climate Variability and Change in Central Oklahoma                        
                            Monitoring Climatic Changes in Northwest Oklahoma                        
                            Integrated Grassland and Cropland Observation Systems for Multi-Scale Observations Agroecosystem Processes                        
                            The Association Between the Conservation Reserve Program, Extreme Weather, Water Quality, and Economic Development in the Southern Plains                        
                            Memorandum of Agreement by and Between US Dept of Agriculture and The General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service, Energy Division                        
                            Fertilize Right Initiative Research Projects                        
                            Enhancing Climate-smart Disaster Relief in FSA programs: Non-stationarity at the Intersection of Normal Grazing Periods and US Drought Assessment                        
                            Developing a Conceptual Integrated Geospatial Architectures To Support Enterprise Deployment of Geographic Information Systems Products at USDA                        
                            Develop and Evaluate Rapidly Deployable Inexpensive Sensors to Aid the Monitoring, Inspecting, and Rehabilitation of Aging Dams                        
                            Breeding for Resistance to Peanut Smut                        
                            Develop and Evaluate a Site-specific Climate Downscaling Tool for Climatic Impact Assessment