BioEarth Project, Washington State University
This project within Washington State University’s Center for Environmental Research, Education & Outreach (CEREO) is developing a regional-scale Earth Systems Model (EaSM) that is an integration of existing atmospheric, terrestrial, aquatic, and human systems models focusing on climate variability and carbon-nitrogen-water dynamics in the Pacific Northwest. Several REACCH PIs are also part of BioEarth and the modeling approaches employed in the two projects will be complementary.

Biofuels Cropping Systems Research and Extension Project, Washington State University
This WSU-led project with multiple sources of funding is focused on supporting the grower and industry-based movement to diversify cropping system agronomics and markets through increased adoption and production of oilseed crops. The cropping system diversification efforts complement and contribute to design of the alternative production systems being examined within REACCH and designed to improve adaptation to climate change and mitigation of GHG emissions. Several REACCH PIs are involved in BCSR.

Climate Change CAPs, University of Florida, Iowa State University
REACCH is working closely with Sustainable Corn.org (Iowa State University leading) and PINEMAP.org (University of Florida leading), two $20M projects funded in the same cohort with REACCH. The project directors, Lois Morton and Tim Martin meet monthly in phone conference with REACCH Director, Eigenbrode. The three project directors are working on an article presenting the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration for large-scale problems such as the effects of climate change on agricultural systems. The directors will participate in one another’s annual meetings in 2012. The project managers for the three projects also meet regularly by phone.

Climate Friendly Farming, Washington State University
Climate Friendly Farming (CFF) is designed to understand the interconnections between climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, and agriculture in an effort to reduce agricultural emissions of greenhouse gases, improve soil carbon sequestration, and develop bioenergy, biofuels, and bioproducts from agriculture that offset the combustion of fossil fuel carbon. REACCH is sharing expertise and instrumentation with CFF to improve the accuracy and applicability of our monitoring and cropping system models. Several REACCH PIs are also PIs on CFF.

Idaho EPSCoR, University of Idaho
The current EPSCoR project includes hydro-climatology, ecological change, economic and policy modeling. A focus is the hydrology of the Snake and Salmon River watersheds and how projected climate change might affect the timing and magnitude of mountain snow packs and snowmelt. The climate modeling expertise and cyberinfrastructure of EPSCoR is closely linked to those within REACCH and contribute to its efforts.

NASA Innovations in Climate Education (ICE) project, University of Idaho
This project focuses on working with regional teachers to assist them in bringing climate into the classroom. REACCH and ICE are collaborating on developing and delivering summer workshops for science teachers beginning in 2012.

Northwest Knowledge Network, University of Idaho
The Northwest Knowledge Network (NKN) is a data management system that provides storage, retrieval, and protection services across the life cycle of data. NKN serves researchers, educators, and the public specializing in cross-disciplinary data and its application to issues of note in the state and northwest region. NKN is led by the University of Idaho Library (UI-L) and Research Office (UI-ORED), in cooperation with the Idaho National Laboratory (DOE-INL) and with the Idaho EPSCoR Cyber-infrastructure program (EPSCoR-CI).

The NSF-Toolbox Project, University of Idaho
This NSF-funded project at the University of Idaho is designed to improve communication and collaboration among interdisciplinary scientists. REACCH PIs are using the Toolbox model to work with students and postdocs to help improve collaborative literacy and promote successful teamwork within REACCH.

NSF-IGERT, Washington State University
The NSPIRE IGERT (Nitrogen Systems: Policy-oriented Integrated Research and Education) at WSU is a multidisciplinary program focusing on nitrogen cycling and effective communication with public policy makers. Some NSPIRE students will be jointly supported by REACCH and NSF-IGERT.

NSF-IGERT, University of Idaho
The University of Idaho IGERT, (Evaluating Resilience of Ecological and Social Systems in Changing Landscapes of Costa Rica and Idaho) is training 24 doctoral students working in interdisciplinary teams in Idaho and Costa Rica. One of the student teams works in the Palouse region within the purview of REACCH and shares two faculty mentors with REACCH. Interactions are planned among the students in the two programs.

Site-Specific Climate Friendly Farming, Washington State University
Site-Specific Climate Friendly Farming (SCF) is a NIFA-funded climate change project designed to develop an improved model that captures the variability over space and time of nitrous oxide emissions and related processes for complex agricultural fields under different management regimes and construct a field-scale, site-specific, decision-support tool for climate change mitigation by linking soil and crop sensor data to hydrology, cropping systems, and economic models. REACCH is sharing expertise and instrumentation with SCF to improve the accuracy and applicability of our monitoring and cropping system models. Several REACCH PIs are also PIs on SCF.

USDA National Agricultural Library (NAL)
The National Agricultural Library is one of four national libraries of the United States and houses one of the world's largest collections of materials devoted to agricultural and related sciences. Metadata for REACCH-related data products have been added to the Ag Data Commons repository at NAL so that they can be accessed through NAL search tools.

Agricultural Model Comparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP)
AgMIP is a major international collaborative effort to improve the state of agricultural simulation and to understand climate impacts on the agricultural sector at global and regional scales. Several REACCH scientists, including John Antle, Claudio Stockle and Paul Gessler, study how global wheat and maize production are affected by climate change. There is a proposal for a special issue journal, Economic Vulnerability of Agricultural Households to Climate Change: New Evidence from AgMIP Regional Integrated Assessment Methods, which would feature 12 articles on REACCH and AgMIP.

Climate Learning Network
The Climate Learning Network (CLN) is a platform for climate-related webinars, e-learning modules, news, and other educational resources. Its goal is to connect professionals in the land grant university system and the USDA Climate Hubs. REACCH PIs have partnered with CLN to deliver webinars on a variety of research topics.

Columbia River Supply and Demand Forecast
Pursues the development of conservation and water supply projects to meet eastern Washington's economic and environmental needs while understanding the supply and demand this project provides assessment of future environmental and economic conditions are likely to change this supply and demand which helps OCR (Office of Columbia River) make critical decisions and smarter investments to improve water supply for Eastern Washington's in stream and out-of-stream users. Washington Department of Ecology, Chad Kruger, REACCH Co-PI and Extension Lead.

Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.
A National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored consortium of 125 universities providing support for the study of terrestrial components and processes of the global water cycle.

DataONE
Supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), ensures preservation and access to multi-scale, multi-discipline, and multi-national science data.

Department of Interior Northwest Climate Science Center (NW CSC)
Oregon State University, University of Idaho, University of Washington, and the US Geological Survey, is one of eight regional centers in a permanent nationwide network established to provide scientific information, tools, and techniques to anticipate, monitor, and adapt to climate change. NW CSC resources include a broad array of climate related expertise, data management and cyber-infrastructure services and a 23 member executive stakeholder advisory system. Several REACCH PIs are active in NW CSC leadership. Although NW CSC's mission is comprehensive, REACCH is bringing in the agricultural perspectives important for its mission.

Extension implementation Program for Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Idaho 2014-2017
IPM is a NIFA awarded grant program that promotes integrated pest management among Idaho growers. REACCH and EIP jointly funded graduate students, conducted focus groups with producers, and developed several decision support tools such as Aphid Tracker and Cereal Aphid Spray Calculator.

Helping Orient Indian Students and Teachers into STEM (HOIST)
HOIST is a six-week college preparatory program held during summer session at the University of Idaho. The program is for Native American high school students who have demonstrated potential in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) fields. REACCH hosted 15 students in the summer of 2014 and 5 students in the summer of 2016. Students evaluated units in our high school curriculum and subsequently taught 1-2 units in their home high school classrooms. Learn more about the REACCH/HOIST collaboration.

Idaho Regional Optical Network (IRON)
IRON facilitates advanced networking among institutions in Idaho and Northern Tier States

Kellogg Biological Station Long-Term Ecological Research Site (KBS-LTER)
Shared vision and interests have spawned and will sustain exchanges and collaboration.

Northwest Regional Biocarbon Initiative (NW RBI)
Established by Pacific Northwest Environmental Organizations the NW RBI is in place as a mechanism for advancing practices and policies that mitigate climate change in terrestrial ecosystems in the PNW. With REACCH guidance, NW RBI has adopted a policy position statement inclusive of agricultural practices researched and validated by the REACCH project.

Oregon Climate Change Research Institute (OCCRI)
OCCRI is a network of over 100 researchers from Oregon State University, the University of Oregon, Portland State University, Southern Oregon University, and affiliated federal and state labs. REACCH PI, Phil Mote is the Director of this institute which is housed at Oregon State University.

Pacific Northwest Climate Impacts Research Consortium (CIRC)
Supporting climate adaptation in the Pacific Northwest, the CIRC provides information and tools for making decisions about landscape and watershed management for the changing climate. REACCH Co-PI and Extension Lead, Chad Kruger coordinates with John Stevenson on this project

National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
SESYNC brings together the science of the natural world with the science of human behavior and decision-making to find solutions to complex environmental problems. They convene science teams to work on broad issues of national and international relevance. Facilitated by SESYNC, REACCH worked with two other major grant programs, PINEMAP and Sustainable Corn, to produce the publication Leading Large Transdisciplinary Projects Addressing Social-Ecological Systems: A Primer for Project Directors.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Northwest Climate Hub
The Northwest Climate Hub encompasses Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.The purpose of the Hub is to deliver science-based knowledge and practical information to farmers, ranchers, forest landowners, and Native American tribes that will help them to adapt to climate change. REACCH contributed to initial planning for Climate Hub and continues to collaborate on grower survey assessments and other activities pertaining to agriculture and climate change in the PNW.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Organic Footprints Project
This project addresses needs of 3 stakeholder groups: organic producers, organic certifying agents and agencies, and purchasers/traders of carbon credits. These groups need a scientifically sound yet simple estimation of the carbon and nitrogen sequestration and net greenhouse gas (GHG) balance likely in a given organic cropping system scenario. REACCH Co-PI and Extension Lead, Chad Kruger coordinates with Director Lynne Carpenter-Boggs on this project

United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)
Co-PI and Extension Lead, Chad Kruger, coordinates a Life-Cycle Analysis of Pacific Northwest Feedstocks for Biofuel Production for the US EPA.

United States Forest Service
Co-PI and Extension Lead, Chad Kruger, coordinates the needs assessment: What is the state of knowledge of private forest landowners regarding global climate change and the impacts to western forests? For the US Forest Service.

Washington Department of Ecology
Co-PI and Extension Lead, Chad Kruger works with the department in an organic waste to fuels study.

Expert Working Group
The Wheat Initiative was created in 2011 to promote and coordinate wheat research internationally. Its goal is to facilitate the development of improved varieties of wheat and their use to increase food security. The Wheat Initiative is made up of Expert Working Groups (EWG) on various aspects of wheat science. The Expert Working Group on Wheat Agronomy was established in 2016, partly motivated by the REACCH international conference. Founding members include Bill Pan and Sanford Eigenbrode of REACCH. Reflecting the philosophy of REACCH, the Wheat Agronomy EWG is “a cross-disciplinary systems approach to identify and remove factors responsible for regional yields gaps. It aims to bring together experts from a broad range of disciplines (vs. a silo approach) who would all contribute to the enhancement of the wheat phase as part of a systems agronomy approach that will meet the global challenges facing wheat growers and end-users today and well into the future.”

Landscapes in Transition (LIT)
The University of Idaho, along with the other REACCH partners, was awarded a $3.4 million USDA NIFA grant in June 2017. The goal is to help farmers diversify their crops, boost profits, reduce fallow and increase the adaptability of wheat based-farming to future environmental changes. Building upon the transdisciplinary research of REACCH, the project will focus on three distinct climate zones based on precipitation and terrain. Researchers will test alternative farming strategies including adding winter peas and cover cropping with livestock grazing to crop rotations. As well as determining the overall best agronomic practices for these alternative crops, the impacts of diversification on pests and weeds, soil health indicators, greenhouse gas emissions, nitrogen and water budgets, and overall profitability will be assessed.

Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) Network
In 2011, the WSU Cook Agronomy Farm was designated one of the ten sites in the USDA Long-Term Agroecosystem Research Network as an outgrowth of the REACCH project. Following in the footsteps of REACCH, the LTAR focuses on supporting long-term research on cropping systems and precision agriculture by supporting graduate education and outreach efforts. The Cook Farm LTAR is a cornerstone for transdisciplinary research partnerships and will increase our region's capacity for grower-oriented research.