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Mar 30, 2023
Faculty member and Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science Rattan Lal named to U.N. Food Systems Scientific Advisory Committee. Professor Lal is the Director of the CFAES Rattan Lal Center for Carbon Management and Sequestration at The Ohio State University. Learn more about the SAC and meet the committee here.
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Aug 29, 2022
Taking excess carbon out of the atmosphere, where it is driving climate change, and locking it into the soil, where it improves its health and agronomic productivity, is the impetus behind a new five-year, $15 million project at The Ohio State University.
Funding for the project comes from a $5 million grant from the Washington, D.C.-based Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research and about $10 million in matching contributions from Ohio State, commodity groups, industry and other donors. The project will measure how much organic and inorganic carbon gets sequestered in the soil under different farming practices in key regions across the western hemisphere.
What science knows about carbon sequestration, says Rattan Lal, Ohio State Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science, has mostly come from simulation modeling carried out on computers, along with a limited number of experiments in the field. Read more.
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Oct 12, 2020
Rattan Lal, one of the most decorated professors to teach and conduct research at The Ohio State University, will receive the 2020 World Food Prize on Thursday, Oct. 15, during the virtual Borlaug Dialouge streaming from Des Moines, Iowa. That same day, he will also be honored by Ohio State in a virtual ceremony to honor his legacy.
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Jul 16, 2019
Soil scientist Rattan Lal, one of The Ohio State University’s most decorated faculty researchers, will address the university’s summer graduates. Approximately 1,500 degrees will be awarded at the summer commencement ceremony, which begins at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4., at the Jerome Schottenstein Center.
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Dec 5, 2018
The way Ohio State University scientist Rattan Lal sees it, many of Earth’s biggest challenges — from growing enough food to protecting water quality to reversing climate change — have answers in the soil.
As Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences(CFAES), Lal has spent his career working to find those answers. Along the way, he’s gained a global reputation for his research and advocacy on soil-related matters along with multiple honors and awards.
His latest recognition, a big one, comes on an appropriate day.
Today, Dec. 5 — designated by the United Nations as World Soil Day — Lal received the Glinka World Soil Prize in a ceremony at the Rome headquarters of the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Named for a prominent Russian soil scientist, the award is considered the highest honor in the soil science profession.
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Nov 5, 2018
The latest edition of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center's (C-MASC) newsletter is now available and features updates on honors, presentations and publications and much more.
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Jun 19, 2018
Who We Are, on the website of the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, features Rattan Lal, a distinguished professor at The Ohio State University and director of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center. The story chronicles Professor Lal’s 50 years of scientific work and contributions to soil science.
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Mar 19, 2018
While in India recently, Professor Rattan Lal was interviewed by television station Rajaya Sabha. In the interview, he spoke with T V Venkateswaran about the fundamental importance of soil and the integral relationship between the quality of soils, the health of people and the environment.
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Dec 4, 2017
Professor Rattan Lal and CMASC research are highlighted in The New York Times Sunday Review (December 3). The opinion piece, "Soil Power! The Dirty Way to a Green Planet" by Jacques Leslie discusses the scientific research and benefits of sequestering carbon in soil.
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Sep 12, 2017
Rattan Lal, Professor and Director, Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, School of Envrionment and Natural Resources is one of three CFAES faculty members, who have have been awarded international research fellowships through USDA's Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program. By working with a distinguished visiting international scholar from a developing or middle-income country, these CFAES faculty will broaden their own network of international collaborators as well as focus on long-term research endeavors that promote improved food security and economic growth.
