Small Grants Program

The Research Initiative in Northeast Grazing Soils (RINGS) is pleased to announce a competitive small grants program to support soil carbon research in the Northeast U.S. The 2026 RINGS small grants program expands current research efforts and contributes to the development of a Northeast soil carbon inventory for lands impacted by grazing.

Program Overview

This program supports the core mission of RINGS: to improve our understanding of soil carbon sequestration in Northeast grazing systems by aggregating existing datasets, standardizing sampling protocols, and identifying geographic and measurement gaps in soil carbon data.

These funds are intended to support soil sampling and analysis costs, field data collection of soil organic carbon (SOC) and bulk density, and collection of management information about any of the practices associated with the land.