Environmental Soil Science
Soil quality is an essential part of healthy ecosystems. Research in soil science focuses on water and nutrient cycling in agricultural and forested ecosystems, soil carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas emissions from soils, and the impacts of natural and anthropogenic disturbance on soil quality with implications for forest and crop production.
Researchers
- Scott Chang: Forest Soils and Nutrient Dynamics
- Miles Dyck: Contaminants in Soils, Soil Physics
- Guillermo Hernandez Ramirez: Carbon and Nitrogen Fluxes in Agroecosystems
- M. Derek MacKenzie: Soil-Plant Relations
- M. Anne Naeth: Contaminated Soils and Anthroposols
- David Olefeldt: Catchment and Wetland Sciences
- Sylvie Quideau: Soil Biogeochemistry
- William Shotyk: Geochemistry of the Soil Environment
- Tariq Siddique: Soil Chemistry and Environmental Microbiology
History of Soil
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