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Science Application &
Integration
Soils
Soil scientists study the upper few meters of the Earth's crust in terms of its physical and chemical properties. Soils are complex mixtures of water, organic matter, minerals and air. Soil serves many purposes including:
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Media for growth of all kinds of plants
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Modifying the atmosphere by emitting and absorbing dust and gases (such as carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, etc.)
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Providing habitat for soil organisms - mostly tiny creatures that account for most of the life living things on Earth
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Absorbing, holding, releasing, altering, and purifying most of the water in terrestrial systems
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Recycling nutrients, including carbon, so that living things can use them over and over again
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Serving as engineering media for construction of foundations, roadbeds, dams and buildings, and preserve or destroy artifacts of human endeavors
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Research Soil Chemist
See Also: Fire/Fuel, Stream-Riparian Environments
Great Basin Ecology Lab, Nevada Forestry Sciences |
Interests:
Geographical Areas: Great Basin Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands; Louisiana |
Interests:
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Post-wildfire flood flows and hydrologic responses;
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Watershed hydrologic and erosion responses to spring and summer prescribed fires;
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Continued development of RMRS-OALS Web Site: “Managing Arid and Semi-arid Watersheds;
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Evaluation of restoration success in drylands;
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Best Management Practices for harvesting trees in riparian zones.
Geographical Areas:
Workman Creek Watersheds, Coon Creek; Stermer Ridge Watersheds, Rodeo-Chediski; Peloncillo Mountains, New Mexico. |
Soil Biologist
Moscow Forestry Sciences Lab |
Interests:
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Risk evaluation
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Root pathogens
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Epidemiology
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Genetics
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Host-pest interactions
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Decomposition processes
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Ecosystem development/sustainability
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Below-ground microbial driven processes, natural/anthropogenic disturbances
Geographical Areas: Inland Northwest; Canada; Northern Idaho. |
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