Environmental Quality SectionHomeMembershipSections & CommunitiesAgriculture covers roughly 30% of the earth and is inextricably linked to the quality of our environment. Understanding how agriculture affects our environment and improving the management of agriculture to promote air, soil and water quality is the central focus of the Environmental Quality Section. We have seven communities that have formed in the section, with most activities occurring at this level.The Environmental Quality Section is committed to representing its members to ensure that emerging issues of agronomy and the environment are effectively communicated and that division activities reflect member interest. If you would like to highlight a topic of importance on this web page or play a role in section activities, contact the presiding chair.Our CommunitiesAnimal Agriculture and the EnvironmentMembers | Community Leaders | Donate | Member Hub CircleThis community encourages scientific exchanges among scientists, educators, extension practitioners, regulators, policy makers, and producers. Members focus on solutions to environmental issues associated with animal agriculture.Biochar: Agronomic and Environmental UsesMembers | Community Leaders | Donate | Member Hub CircleThis Community will fill the need for a scientific organization focused on the environmental and agronomic impacts and uses of biochar, particularly related to soil application. Environmental impacts could entail the use of biochar as a sorbent for metals, microbes, and other agrochemicals.Managing Denitrification in Agronomic SystemsMembers | Community Leaders | Donate | Member Hub CircleThis Community brings together members interested in methods to reduce nitrate loss from agricultural systems through enhanced denitrification.Beneficial Reuse By-Products in AgricultureMembers | Community Leaders | Donate | Member Hub CircleThis community will provide a forum to share research and results of gypsum and additional by-product materials used in agricultural systems, excluding biochar and products likely to be covered in the Nutrients and Environmental Quality Community. Community members assess the environmental and plant productive effects of gypsum and additional by-products.Nutrients and Environmental QualityMembers | Community Leaders | Donate | Member Hub CircleCommunity members develop and promote solutions to prevent nutrient losses and water quality degradation from both urban and agriculture land uses.Soil Carbon and Greenhouse Gas EmissionMembers | Community Leaders | Donate | Member Hub CircleThis community examines how management of agronomic systems can influence soil carbon accumulation and greenhouse gas emissions, while providing a forum for sharing these research results.Sustainable IntensificationMembers | Community Leaders | Donate | Member Hub CircleCommunity members examine challenges of current agricultural systems and develop solutions to increase crop yields and reduce negative environmental impacts. Join ASA Member Hub Section AwardsInspiring Early Career Scientist AwardThese awards recognize inspiring early-career scientists who have made creative and impactful contributions toward sustaining agriculture through Environmental Quality research, teaching, extension/public service or industry activity within seven years of completing their terminal degree.View Application Information HereEnvironmental Quality Outstanding Graduate Student AwardsThis award is to recognize graduate students who have made, or who have the potential to make, significant contributions to the field of environmental quality and to encourage their involvement in the American Society of Agronomy. Recipients will receive a certificate of recognition and $250.Environmental Quality Outstanding Graduate Student AwardUpdate Your ASA CommunitiesCom·mu·ni·ty: noun a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.View the complete list of ASA Communities and join.View Section Officers Published on behalf of Stay Connected Facebook - links opens in a new tabX - links opens in a new tabLinkedin - links opens in a new tabYoutube - links opens in a new tab