LAB Jan. 25, 2011

Finally off to a good semester! Just a brief review and reminder.

For this week's lab exercise, we worked through the Haywood County Soil Survey hard copy and visited the online Soil Survey from NRCS. We introduced soil testing as well as discussed the weekly lab report. After these exercises, you should know what information is available and be able to find that information in both NRCS Soil Survey formats as well as understand basic soil sampling procedures.

Due next week is (1.) your completed Haywood County Soil Survey exercise questions, (2.) the soil sampling document study questions, and (3.) a lab report with the results section being a brief summary of the assigned reading on soil sampling. Remember, the discussion section should focus on what you learned from the whole exercise and why it is matters for your particular area of study.

See you Tuesday!
Richard

Lecture 1 - The Nature and Function of Soils

Presentation is an introduction by NRCS to soils.


Sinkhole caused by frost protection of citrus, strawberries and vegetables.


Global Introduction to Soils

Some images of the Hole in the Donut Restoration Project.

Briefly looked at Haywood County Water Resources Map.