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.
SOIL 5110: Intro to Matlab Programming
SOIL 5110: Scientific Writing and Data Presentation for Peer-reviewed Journals
- What is Cost of Attendance (COA)?
- Lecture Slides
- Lecture 1: Course Overview
- Lecture 2: Title, Objectives, Abstract
- Lecture 3: Manuscript Structure and Outline Preparation
- Lecture 4: Figures and Tables
- Lecture 5: Writing Science as Story Telling
- Lecture 6: Methods and Results
- Lecture 7: Introduction
- Lecture 8: Discussion, Conclusion, and Limitations
- Lecture 9: Internal Structure, Paragraphs, and Sentences
- Lecture 10: Flow, Energized Writing, Words
- Lecture 11: Editing and Condensing
- Lecture 12: Citations, References, Authorship, Reviews
- Course Resources
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.