Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences

Open to all disciplines who work in sandy soils! Abstract submissions for the 2nd Global Conference on Sandy Soils close on 14th March. @DPIRDWA @CSIRO @theGRDC @BizEventsPerth

From all of us in soils in Madison we wish you a wonderful 2025. Another year for discoveries and memories, defying the impossible!

Meet Jonah Naatz! He is graduating with a bachelor's degree in soil science. Hear Jonah talk about his time at CALS at cals.wisc.edu/winter-2024-gr…. @DepartmentSoil

From all of us in soils in Madison, Happy World Soil Day tomorrow. Here photos from the state soil: The Antigo silt loam

How wet is America's soil? Nobody really knows, but CALS scientists are leveraging AI to map soil moisture across the country, which could be a game changer for farmers, climate models, and wildlife forecasts. grow.cals.wisc.edu/departments/fe…

Congratulations to Gregg Sanford, new assistant professor in soil and environmental sciences! He studies the impact of ag systems management on ecosystem services. His position is funded by the @dairy_hub. Learn more: ecals.cals.wisc.edu/2024/10/11/new…

Plan to attend the Agricultural Research Station tour at Summit? Xia Zhu-Barker will showcase developments in her Campus-wide long-term lysimeter network in Wisconsin with Matt Ruark. Learn about the project at ow.ly/9YlS50U7RUi Register now 👉 ow.ly/ZbcK50U7RUc

Grateful to @ESA_org for the highlight of @bpropscience's new paper in @ESAEcology! Check out the press release below and the #OpenAccess paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ecy.44… @DepartmentSoil @UWMadisonCALS

Happy to share that our paper detailing iron sulfate for use on dollar spot suppression in WI, MN, and VA is now published. Thanks to @GCSAA @WGCSA @MnGCSA for funding this work! @djsoldat @kurtaculous @VTTurfPath @StrawTurf Check it out here: doi.org/10.1002/csc2.2…

Excited to share our new paper on naturally occurring nematicides of plant origin scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ps…

The science of global warming beautifully and simply explained by Dr. Carl Sagan, ca. 1985. ✍️

Another full house at the @DepartmentSoil graduate seminar where @gregg_sanford made his first presentation as a SES faculty member. Fittingly the topic was the future of Midwestern agriculture

Check out another cool new paper led by postdoc @gracecagle in @GEB_macro, where she examined microbes within the pitcher plant system and uncovered unique ecological processes governing the community assembly of distinct microbial guilds. @NSF-funded onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Huge congrats to @bpropscience on her first first authored pub hot off the presses in @ESAEcology! In it, she examines the effects of slowed atmospheric N deposition on the northern temperate forest soil C sink. Check it out 👇 @DepartmentSoil @UWMadisonCALS

✨New paper✨ on sampling soils in urban ecosystems! @AlfredHartemink Use this link for free access until 11/30 ➡️ authors.elsevier.com/a/1jvm0EqynpMiv

Congratulations to @DepartmentSoil's Jingyi Huang on being appointed to the Marvin T. Beatty Professorship in Soil Science! Learn more about Jingyi and the professorship: ecals.cals.wisc.edu/2024/09/16/fou…

UW-Madison is at soil judging regionals! Ft. pickles

Thanks @UWMadisonCALS for putting the word out and thanks @USDA_NIFA for the support. We are super excited to work on this project. Also thanks to my awesome collaborators @JingyiHuang101 @ZhouZhang10 @Emsilva624 and supporter @RuarkLab

We have several faculty positions available at various levels. Deadline is 1st November. Ideal candidates will possess expertise in environmental, ecosystem, or agricultural sciences and technologies, or a related field, with a strong emphasis on using AI. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/ai-to-enh…

Congratulations to Jingyi Huang, Tu Anh Huynh, Chris Kucharik, and Dominic Parker on receiving CALS department professorships! Learn more: ecals.cals.wisc.edu/2024/09/16/fou… @UWMadisonPAS @DepartmentSoil @UW_AAE @UW_DeptFoodSci