
“Take care of the land and the land will take care of you”.
— H.H. Bennett, Journal of Soil & Water Conservation, 1947
Welcome
Welcome to Dr. Gregg Sanford’s Soil Carbon and Cropping System Ecology lab in the Department of Soil & Environmental Sciences at UW-Madison.
Our work involves applying ecological principles to agricultural lands in an effort to optimize multiple ecosystem services. We are particularly interested in land management’s impact on soil organic carbon and other metrics of healthy agroecosystems (e.g., productivity, soil structure and function, greenhouse gas exchange, profitability). Our work occurs in diverse agricultural systems, including conventional and organic annual grain-based rotations, integrated crop-livestock systems, perennial grasslands, and bioenergy crops.
If our work interests you, and you’d like to learn more or join the team, please get in touch with Gregg!






