Soils

Examining the formation, distribution, function and management of soils to understand, sustain, and improve the environment.

Study with researchers working in:

Biotic and abiotic controls on element cycling in terrestrial ecosystems
Cycling of water, carbon, nitrogen, salts and metals in the environment, with a strong focus on soil processes that modulate these element cycles.

Faculty with expertise in soil science

Expertise: fate of trifluoroacetic acids and organophosphate pesticides during interaction with vegetation and soils, role of atmosphere and soils as sources, sinks, and pathways for cycling of environmental contaminants.

Mae Gustin

Expertise: interactions among plant, soil, and hydrologic processes in terrestrial systems.

Erin Hanan

Expertise: soil carbon and greenhouse gases in restored mountain meadows, rates and mechanisms of soil methane dynamics in arid environments, plant-soil feedbacks and restoration of old fields in Nevada, and piñon-juniper fuels management on vegetation and soils

ben sullivan

Expertise: effects of natural and anthropogenic perturbations such as climate change, acid rain and land management on terrestrial ecosystems.

Paul Verburg

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