Through a new NASA grant, interdisciplinary team to measure nitrogen released from agriculture sources

Left: a satellite-based NOx emission map (credit: Kang Sun). Right: fast-flux sensors (credit: Mark Zondlo).

As researchers continue to understand the effects agriculture plays in climate and environment, a new research project was recently funded by the NASA Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science (IDS) program, which includes experienced researchers from four institutions. The new project has for the first time made it possible to show the impact two nitrogen fluxes — ammonia (NH3) and nitric oxide/nitrogen dioxide (NOx) — have on agricultural productivity and air quality.<