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SOIL
SCIENCE COURSES and COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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Title |
Credits | Description |
| 210 | Introduction to Soil Science | 3 | Physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils, as related to use, conservation, and plant growth. 2 lectures, 1 laboratory. Offered Fall and Spring Semesters. |
| 217 | Introduction to Meteorology and Climatology | 3 | Basic meteorology-climatology concepts and their application; includes energy balance, greenhouse effect, temperature, pressure systems, lows, highs, fronts, winds, clouds, storms, humidity, precipitation, and measurements. Lectures, discussions, demonstrations. Offered Spring semester |
| 322 | Soil Fertility and Fertilizers | 3 | Principles of plant nutrition and soil nutrient availability, soil testing and fertilizer recommendations and management. Macronutrient emphasis. 2 lectures, 1 two-hour laboratory. Prereq: Soil 210, Chem 121, 121L. Offered Spring Semester |
| 351 | Soil Ecology
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3 | Principles of soil-plant-animal interactions and their influences on environmental and agricultural issue of global significance (e.g., sustainable agriculture, global climate change, diversity conservation. Prereq: Soil 210. Offered Fall Semester |
| 410/610 | Soils and Land Use | 3 | Principles of chemistry, physics and biology will be used to determine the effects of soil management, agrichemical usage, livestock production, and vegetation on the environment using scales ranging from microsite to watershed. Prereq: Soil 210, Chem 121, 121L. Offered Spring Semester |
| 433/633 | Soil Physics | 3 | Soil as a three-phase system. Application to soil of physical principles and measurements of soil properties, including density, texture, structure, water content, heat capacity, and transport coefficients. Relationship of properties to agricultural and industrial contamination. 2 lectures, 1 lab. Prereq: Soil 210, Phys 211, Math 146. Offered Fall Semester. |
| 444/644 | Soil Genesis and Survey |
4 | Introduction to soil genesis, morphology, geography, techniques of soil survey; field studies and description of soils. 3 lectures, 1 three-hour laboratory. One or more Saturday field trips. Prereq: Soil 210. Offered Fall Semester |
| 447/647 | Microclimatology | 3 | Characteristics and causes of the climate near the ground and its interaction with living organisms. Energy and mass transfer concepts. Lectures, discussions, demonstrations, field trips. Prereq: Phys 211. Offered Fall semester (odd years) |
| 465/665 | Soil and Plant Analysis | 3 | Laboratory analysis of soil and plant material for constituent elements. 1 lecture, 2 laboratories. Prereq: Soil 210, Chem 121, 122. Offered Spring Semester (odd) years |
| 480/680 | Soils and Pollution | 3 | To provide the basic physical, chemical and biological fate and transport processes of pollution in soils and to neighboring water bodies. Also, how to model and apply these processes to the landscape scale. Prereq: Math 146, Chem 121, 121L. Offered Spring Semester |
| 721 | Environmental Field Instrumentation and Sampling | 2 | To provide an overview of the tools (manual and electronic) concepts and theories used to sample for physical, chemical, and biological parameters. Offered Fall semester, odd years. 8-week course (Two one-hour lectures and one four-hour laboratory per week). |
| 733 | Modeling Environmental Fate and Transport | 2 | To provide the principles of modeling physical, chemical and biological fate and transport processes for application in current environmental problems. Emphasis placed on mathematically expressing processes and describing observations. Offered Spring semester, even years. Prereq: Math 146 and Chem 121 and Chem 121L. |
| 755 | Soil Chemistry | 3 | Soil chemical reactions and equilibria, solubility relationships, mineral weathering, cation and anion adsorption, redox reactions, metal chelation, and fixation of nutrients in the soil. 3 lectures. Prereq: Soil 322, Chem, 121, 122L. Offered Fall semester, odd years. |
| 763 | Advanced Soil Physics | 3 | Composition of soil in terms of solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Theory of water, heat, and solute transport processes. Water availability for plant growth. 2 lectures, 1 laboratory. Prereq: Soil 333, 339, Phys 211, Math 146 or 165. Offered Spring Semester (even years) |
| 782 | Advanced Soil Fertility | 2 | Advanced study of soil-plant-nutrient relationships with emphasis on concepts of soil fertility, ion absorption, nutrient transformation, and interpretation of experimental data. 2 lectures. Prereq: Soil 322. Offered Fall Semester (even years) |
| 784 | Advanced Soil Genesis, Morphology and Classification | 2 | Advanced study of processes of soil development, soil morphology, and principles of soil classification. 2 lectures. Prereq: Soil 444/644. Offered Fall Semester (even years) |
| 491/790 | Soil Science Seminar | 1 |
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