Shelby C. McClelland
@scmcclelland.bsky.social
Faculty Fellow in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University. Food, greenhouse gas emissions, and soil. www.scmcclelland.com
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Managing for climate and production goals on crop-lands - Nature Climate Change
Climate mitigation through natural climate solutions in crop-lands may be a way to reconcile climate goals with food security. However, here the authors show that some natural climate solution practic...
www.nature.com
🚨New paper alert🚨
We show that maintaining crop yields lowers the global climate benefits of natural climate solutions on croplands. But, we highlight where win-win opportunities exist for these practices to contribute to climate and production goals. 1/N
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We show that maintaining crop yields lowers the global climate benefits of natural climate solutions on croplands. But, we highlight where win-win opportunities exist for these practices to contribute to climate and production goals. 1/N
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🚨 Big News!! 🚨
I am so excited to announce that I’ve recently joined the faculty at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences @stonybrooku.bsky.social ! My initial position is as a faculty fellow under the SUNY PRODiG+ Fellowship Program. 1/n
www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/soma...
I am so excited to announce that I’ve recently joined the faculty at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences @stonybrooku.bsky.social ! My initial position is as a faculty fellow under the SUNY PRODiG+ Fellowship Program. 1/n
www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/soma...
September 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🚨 Big News!! 🚨
I am so excited to announce that I’ve recently joined the faculty at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences @stonybrooku.bsky.social ! My initial position is as a faculty fellow under the SUNY PRODiG+ Fellowship Program. 1/n
www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/soma...
I am so excited to announce that I’ve recently joined the faculty at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences @stonybrooku.bsky.social ! My initial position is as a faculty fellow under the SUNY PRODiG+ Fellowship Program. 1/n
www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/soma...
Reposted by Shelby C. McClelland
Good 🧵
Friendly amendment: stop burning fossil fuels (responsible for 2/3 of historical CO2 emissions), and also stop deforestation & land-use change (the other 1/3).
And if you do something that reduces fossil CO2 but increases land use and deforestation EVEN MORE, that’s an anti-solution. Avoid.
Friendly amendment: stop burning fossil fuels (responsible for 2/3 of historical CO2 emissions), and also stop deforestation & land-use change (the other 1/3).
And if you do something that reduces fossil CO2 but increases land use and deforestation EVEN MORE, that’s an anti-solution. Avoid.
One like, one opinion about how to solve climate change.
1 like, 1 housing opinion
July 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Good 🧵
Friendly amendment: stop burning fossil fuels (responsible for 2/3 of historical CO2 emissions), and also stop deforestation & land-use change (the other 1/3).
And if you do something that reduces fossil CO2 but increases land use and deforestation EVEN MORE, that’s an anti-solution. Avoid.
Friendly amendment: stop burning fossil fuels (responsible for 2/3 of historical CO2 emissions), and also stop deforestation & land-use change (the other 1/3).
And if you do something that reduces fossil CO2 but increases land use and deforestation EVEN MORE, that’s an anti-solution. Avoid.
✨ The LAST chapter of my dissertation is published! ✨
How do plant-soil feedbacks support carbon sequestration in grasslands receiving compost?
Here’s what we learned ⬇️
tinyurl.com/muk2ufe5
How do plant-soil feedbacks support carbon sequestration in grasslands receiving compost?
Here’s what we learned ⬇️
tinyurl.com/muk2ufe5
Soil organic carbon sequestration mediated by plant–microbe interactions after compost application
Organic amendments like compost can enhance soil health and climate change mitigation in managed grassland ecosystems. We previously demonstrated in a northern Colorado cool-season pasture that infre...
tinyurl.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
✨ The LAST chapter of my dissertation is published! ✨
How do plant-soil feedbacks support carbon sequestration in grasslands receiving compost?
Here’s what we learned ⬇️
tinyurl.com/muk2ufe5
How do plant-soil feedbacks support carbon sequestration in grasslands receiving compost?
Here’s what we learned ⬇️
tinyurl.com/muk2ufe5
Our Research Briefing is now out in Nature Climate Change!
We examine the spatially variable tradeoffs between climate change mitigation and crop yields under regenerative agriculture. Globally, safeguarding crop yields will substantially lower mitigation potential.
Read more ➡️ rdcu.be/eo6lE
We examine the spatially variable tradeoffs between climate change mitigation and crop yields under regenerative agriculture. Globally, safeguarding crop yields will substantially lower mitigation potential.
Read more ➡️ rdcu.be/eo6lE
June 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Our Research Briefing is now out in Nature Climate Change!
We examine the spatially variable tradeoffs between climate change mitigation and crop yields under regenerative agriculture. Globally, safeguarding crop yields will substantially lower mitigation potential.
Read more ➡️ rdcu.be/eo6lE
We examine the spatially variable tradeoffs between climate change mitigation and crop yields under regenerative agriculture. Globally, safeguarding crop yields will substantially lower mitigation potential.
Read more ➡️ rdcu.be/eo6lE
Reposted by Shelby C. McClelland
This is incredibly unfair: high-income nations with large dairy sectors are looking to adopt a "no additional warming" target, avoiding the methane cuts needed to meet international targets and pledges.
We have written an open letter to the NZ PM and I spoke to the FT👇🧵
www.ft.com/content/2ea6...
We have written an open letter to the NZ PM and I spoke to the FT👇🧵
www.ft.com/content/2ea6...
Scientists accuse New Zealand and Ireland of trying to cover up livestock emissions
‘Accounting trick’ to support methane-emitting sectors undermines fight against climate change, say researchers
www.ft.com
June 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This is incredibly unfair: high-income nations with large dairy sectors are looking to adopt a "no additional warming" target, avoiding the methane cuts needed to meet international targets and pledges.
We have written an open letter to the NZ PM and I spoke to the FT👇🧵
www.ft.com/content/2ea6...
We have written an open letter to the NZ PM and I spoke to the FT👇🧵
www.ft.com/content/2ea6...
Great coverage in the Cornell Chronicle of our paper including quotes from me and @dominicwoolf.bsky.social.
Read here ➡️ tinyurl.com/yfmwy34h
Read here ➡️ tinyurl.com/yfmwy34h
May 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Great coverage in the Cornell Chronicle of our paper including quotes from me and @dominicwoolf.bsky.social.
Read here ➡️ tinyurl.com/yfmwy34h
Read here ➡️ tinyurl.com/yfmwy34h
🚨New paper alert🚨
We show that maintaining crop yields lowers the global climate benefits of natural climate solutions on croplands. But, we highlight where win-win opportunities exist for these practices to contribute to climate and production goals. 1/N
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We show that maintaining crop yields lowers the global climate benefits of natural climate solutions on croplands. But, we highlight where win-win opportunities exist for these practices to contribute to climate and production goals. 1/N
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Managing for climate and production goals on crop-lands - Nature Climate Change
Climate mitigation through natural climate solutions in crop-lands may be a way to reconcile climate goals with food security. However, here the authors show that some natural climate solution practic...
www.nature.com
May 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🚨New paper alert🚨
We show that maintaining crop yields lowers the global climate benefits of natural climate solutions on croplands. But, we highlight where win-win opportunities exist for these practices to contribute to climate and production goals. 1/N
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We show that maintaining crop yields lowers the global climate benefits of natural climate solutions on croplands. But, we highlight where win-win opportunities exist for these practices to contribute to climate and production goals. 1/N
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.
Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution
The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Happening in less than an hour!
Our research asks if adopting intensification strategies and mitigation technologies (without lowering meat + milk demand) are *enough* to meet CH4 targets at global and regional scales
Come by to find out if they are (or not) if you’re here at #AGU24!
Our research asks if adopting intensification strategies and mitigation technologies (without lowering meat + milk demand) are *enough* to meet CH4 targets at global and regional scales
Come by to find out if they are (or not) if you’re here at #AGU24!
Can 2050 cattle CH4 mitigation targets be met through intensification and mitigation technologies? Are these strategies enough to reduce CH4 without lowering consumption of meat and milk?
Come see me at my poster during #AGU24 (GC13L-0336) on Monday, Dec. 9 from 13:40-17:30 EST to find out!
Come see me at my poster during #AGU24 (GC13L-0336) on Monday, Dec. 9 from 13:40-17:30 EST to find out!
December 9, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Happening in less than an hour!
Our research asks if adopting intensification strategies and mitigation technologies (without lowering meat + milk demand) are *enough* to meet CH4 targets at global and regional scales
Come by to find out if they are (or not) if you’re here at #AGU24!
Our research asks if adopting intensification strategies and mitigation technologies (without lowering meat + milk demand) are *enough* to meet CH4 targets at global and regional scales
Come by to find out if they are (or not) if you’re here at #AGU24!
Can 2050 cattle CH4 mitigation targets be met through intensification and mitigation technologies? Are these strategies enough to reduce CH4 without lowering consumption of meat and milk?
Come see me at my poster during #AGU24 (GC13L-0336) on Monday, Dec. 9 from 13:40-17:30 EST to find out!
Come see me at my poster during #AGU24 (GC13L-0336) on Monday, Dec. 9 from 13:40-17:30 EST to find out!
December 6, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Can 2050 cattle CH4 mitigation targets be met through intensification and mitigation technologies? Are these strategies enough to reduce CH4 without lowering consumption of meat and milk?
Come see me at my poster during #AGU24 (GC13L-0336) on Monday, Dec. 9 from 13:40-17:30 EST to find out!
Come see me at my poster during #AGU24 (GC13L-0336) on Monday, Dec. 9 from 13:40-17:30 EST to find out!