Teaching
SOIL 4683/5683: Soil, Water and Weather
This course provides an introduction to the physics of the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. The focus is on soil, its physical properties, and their interactions with water and weather in terrestrial ecosystems. Graduate students should be sure to enroll in the graduate section to receive graduate credit.
- Course Materials
- Textbook
- Handouts
- Effective Notetaking
- Twelve orders of soil taxonomy
- Green-Ampt parameters
- Runoff curve numbers
- Overview of the Campbell soil hydraulix property functions
- Videos
- Stillwater rainfall data 2013
- Vapor pressure deficit web graph
- Rainfall Interception by Midgrass, Shortgrass, and Live Oak Mottes
- Resources used before 2017
- PowerPoint files
- Introduction
- Precipitation
- Rainfall interception
- Raindrop impact
- Homework
- Semester projects
- PowerPoint files
SOIL 5583: Soil Physics Measurement Techniques
This course provides hands-on training in field and laboratory techniques for the analysis of soil physical properties and processes. Students will receive hands-on training in: writing and reviewing research proposals and manuscripts, data processing and analysis, using sensors and data acquisition systems, measuring soil physical properties in lab and field settings.
- Prior Proposals: (* = winning proposal)
- Correll and Reynolds (2012)
- Khanal (2012)
- Mota (2012)
- Pandey (2012)
- Yimam and Dong (2012)
- Zoca et al. (2012)*
- Patrignani et al. (2010)
- Wine et al. (2010)*
- Prior Products:
- Photo Album:
SOIL 6583: Soil Physics Theory
- PowerPoint Files from Lectures
- Soil Physics -- Past, Present, and Future
- Existing Soil Physics Tools
- Introduction to Matlab
- Introduction to HYDRUS-1D
- Links