Experts across the University of California San Diego have come together to launch a new center for soil health research, education and outreach in Southern California, creating a powerful opportunity to advance climate solutions.
Experts across the University of California San Diego have come together to launch a new center for soil health research, education and outreach in Southern California, creating a powerful opportunity to advance climate solutions.
Established in fall 2025, the UC San Diego Soil Health Center at Scripps Institution of Oceanography is a cross-disciplinary effort in which scientists are digging — sometimes literally — into research focused on building and maintaining soil health. The collaborative effort aims to mitigate climate change, strengthen food security and improve societal resilience to a warming planet.
The center taps the expertise of microbiologists, plant and soil biologists, ecologists, biochemists, growers and community historians to collaboratively shape the future of soil health and drive innovations in sustainable technology.
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Researchers with UC San Diego's newly launched Soil Health Center tend to plantings for an experiment underway at Coastal Roots Farm in Encinitas, Calif. The team is developing a natural soil probiotic designed to improve plant growth while increasing the amount of carbon stored in the soil. Scripps Oceanography scientists Kristin Barbour and Sarah Pierce are pictured in the foreground. (Photo Credit: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego)
