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Portable soil sampling equipment is gaining traction. Soil sampling contractors will often supplement their fleet of large truck-mounted or tracked drills with compact units that are far gentler to turf and can work in confined spaces. For others who want the convenience of owning soil sampling equipment, such as site prep or design-build contractors, portable soil sampling tools are an ...
Soil sampling is a crucial first step in everything from construction to farming. It provides information about the chemical and physical condition of the soil. Often, the purpose is to test for contamination, nutrients or soil strength to gauge the success of a project. The resulting information helps optimize plant growth, solve soil-related problems or determine the extent of soil ...
So far, metaproteomics research has covered various environmental samples, including fermented food, biofilms of acidic mine wastewater, wastewater, marine samples, soil systems, permafrost, human microbiomes, and various environmental ecology and gut flora. ...
The ThirdEye project supports farmers in Mozambique and Kenya with their decision making in farm and crop management by setting up a network of flying sensors operators. Our innovation is a major transformation in farmers’ decision making regarding the application of limited resources such as water, seeds, fertilizer and labor. Instead of relying on common-sense management, farmers are now ...
If you’ve ever flown a model airplane, you can fly a drone. If you haven’t flown a model airplane… you can still fly a drone. Because of how technology has evolved, it’s now easier than ever to take advantage of the new opportunities advancing ag tech has to offer. Over the last decade, drone technology has steadily been growing as part of a practical approach to ...
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The area you pull your samples from may depend on soil type, topography, crops grown, or even management history. ...
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Leading environmental sampling equipment manufacturer QED Environmental Systems has announced the launch of a new customer portal for its BIOGAS 3000 and BIOMETHANE 3000 analysers. ...
What is Vapor Intrusion? Vapor intrusion occurs when volatile chemicals lodged in soil or groundwater rise to the surface and are released into the air. This can occur in the open air or into buildings, offices, factories, warehouses, vacant, or abandoned. Vapor intrusion testing/sampling is a method of determining if known or suspected ground contamination is a result in these chemical vapors ...
Almost 75 years ago in the small town of American Falls, Idaho, a man had a dream and a vision. Art Vollweiler had the philosophy that “everything was a work of Art.” Associating his name with everything he created meant something in 1942. It meant that everything he designed and built was made to last. Art’s assurance in quality has stood the test of time, and continues to be true, 75-years ...
Enzyme and Polymer Contributions and Improvements in Adobe Materials Mudbrick has become an important material in construction as environmental pollution increases. One of the weakest aspects of the adobe material is its ability to absorb water. When water comes in contact with the soil it can often cause the soil to lose cohesion, which leads to a considerable decrease in strength. In this ...
Enzyme and Polymer Contributions and Improvements in Adobe Materials Mudbrick has become an important material in construction as environmental pollution increases. One of the weakest aspects of the adobe material is its ability to absorb water. When water comes in contact with the soil it can often cause the soil to lose cohesion, which leads to a considerable decrease in strength. In this ...
There are a large number of explosives-contaminated sites in the US, Europe, and Asia. High levels of explosives in soil can threaten the health of humans, livestock, and wildlife. A number of remediation efforts are underway, which require the analysis of explosives in soil samples. Recently, a new technique was introduced that allows the automated supercritical fluid extraction and SFC ...
In the present study, we describe a simple system that facilitates measurement of mineralization of 14C‐labeled compounds applied to soil samples. In the system, soda lime pellets to trap mineralized 14C‐carbon species including carbon dioxide (CO2) were placed in a cup, which was then inserted above the treated ...
(TRS) worked as a subcontractor to Brown and Caldwell to remediate five chlorinated volatile organic contaminant (CVOC) source areas in the soil under a manufacturing building. To accomplish this, Electrical Resistance Heating (ERH) remediation, it was necessary to place over 70 electrodes and vapor recovery wells through the main floor of the facility and to use angled ...
Received for publication August 1, 2008. Biosolids, materials resulting from domestic sewage treatment, are surface applied to forest soils to increase phosphorus (P), nitrate, and ammonium availability. Retaining streamside management zones (SMZs) can limit nutrient pollution of streams. We delineated 15-m SMZs along three intermittent streams in an 18-yr-old Pinus taeda L. plantation. We ...
Soil samples were removed from turfgrass systems of different ages, placed in microcosms, conditioned as sterile or nonsterile, and exposed to 14C-simazine. At seven sampling intervals, the soil was extracted and 14C was separated into three pools; bound, extractable, and CO2. With sterilized surface ...
Dynamic Work Strategies typically utilizing adaptive sampling procedures allow for realtimedecisions based on data generated in the field. ...
Nitrogen fertilization of turfgrass continues to be scrutinized due to environmental concerns. Practices that reduce fertilizer inputs without sacrificing turfgrass quality are needed, but a reliable test of N status in turfgrass is not currently available. The Illinois soil N test has been developed to predict crop response to applied N by measuring the amount of amino sugar N in the soil. Amino ...
Understanding the correlation between soil hydraulic parameters and soil physical properties is a prerequisite for the prediction of soil hydraulic properties from soil physical properties. The objective of this study was to examine the scale- and location-dependent correlation between two water retention parameters ( and n) in the van Genuchten (1980) function and soil physical properties (sand ...
Saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) is an important soil parameter that is difficult to measure, especially in an anisotropic medium. Many methods for determining Ks have been developed over time, but taking different water flow directions into consideration is possible in only a few of them; furthermore, these few methods cannot be universally applied. The method proposed here allows Ks to be ...