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transect points transect points views from the underground my headlines subscribe to rss headline updates from powered by feedburner subscribe by rss subscribe by email your email address powered by feedblitz blog archive 2010 1 august 1 industrial art stove firing 2009 1 march 1 2008 18 december 4 july 1 june 5 may 3 april 1 march 3 february 1 2007 43 december 1 november 1 september 3 june 1 may 8 april 1 march 3 february 15 january 10 2006 54 december 10 november 1 september 1 march 4 february 19 january 19 2005 7 december 7 about me phil small view my complete profile verveearth land profile inc science news shared links blogs blogcritics climate science down to earth muck and mystery nscss blog scientific american observations soil science journal club national links nscss sssa uscssa awss sites american chemical society co2 science long term soil ecosystem studies soil health soil taxonomy forum terra preta at bioenergylists org terra preta forum regional links washington wspss oregon osss california pssac idaho issa technorati technorati index soil science labels soil 69 science 56 environment 42 pedology 27 farm 24 fertility 22 land 22 new 22 research 20 soil science 20 bio char 19 edaphology 19 terra preta 18 blog 16 microbiology 16 government 15 health 15 agrichar 13 groundwater 13 waste 13 news 12 water 11 carbon 10 regulation 10 soil scientist 10 wetland 10 bacteria 9 erosion 8 sample 8 biosolids 7 chemistry 7 data 7 demand 7 glomalin 7 innovation 7 organic 7 consulting 6 fungi 6 job 6 nutrition 6 politics 6 professional 6 success 6 survey 6 analysis 5 business 5 climate change 5 ethics 5 garden 5 habitat 5 information 5 irrigation 5 licensing 5 phosphorus 5 physics 5 review 5 technology 5 animal 4 carbon credits 4 drainage 4 global warming 4 management 4 open access 4 treatment 4 trend 4 yakima 4 book 3 dairy 3 hazard 3 knowledge 3 manure 3 maps 3 nitrate 3 tmdl 2 birthday 2 ecology 2 eutrophication 2 historic preservation 2 history 2 hydrology 2 recycling 2 safety 2 stormwater 2 sssa 1 agriculture 1 archaea 1 biofuels 1 dirt 1 forest 1 internship 1 karst 1 methane 1 neighborhood 1 opportunity 1 product 1 spokane 1 training 1 vadose 1 vista 1 wikipedia 1 stats widget creative commons this work is licensed under a creative commons attribution noncommercial 2 5 license ad support monday august 16 2010 industrial art stove firing i fired a primitive industrial art stove using coarse wood chips in the retort i was surprised at how well the woodchips worked posted by phil small at 6 35 pm 1 comments saturday march 21 2009 update electricity and biochar its true i ll be putting my soil science blogging energy elsewhere for the forseeable future http nscss org blog 207 admittedly not a pretty name not like transect points views from the underground might have to make an url alias my latest post is on soil electricity i am such a sucker for soil redox insights a previous post biochar standards methods and opportunities is a followup on nscss biochar panel discussion earlier this month plus it is a lead in to a guidebook i am establishing for consulting soil scientists on biochar posted by phil small at 4 36 pm 1 comments labels bio char blog consulting tuesday december 16 2008 fertilizer prices suddenly collapse in late 2008 the international center for soil fertility ifdc reports that with the exception of potash world fertilizer prices have dropped dramatically gregory explains why fertilizer prices fell so rapidly in late 2008 the high fertilizer prices caused demand destruction farmers were unable or unwilling to pay two or three times the prices of early 2007 collapse of the global credit market a trade recession and slowdown in world economic growth worsened the situation demand for fertilizers fell and stocks accumulated fertilizer manufacturers cut back on production but potash prices have stayed high due to its shortage and difficulties in transporting russian potash because of an enormous and expanding sinkhole near the silvinit mines gregory says demand for potash increased from 2006 through 2008 and potash inventories are now 37 lower than over the past 5 years a couple of thoughts i will be researching first if lower demand has translated to lower utilization this should show up as reduced inventories of 2008 commodity crops like rice soybeans and wheat and reduced supply of perishable fruit crops like bananas second with fertilizer prices now low this would be a excellent time to replenish african soil fertility currently in crisis especially in consideration of a possible reduction in 2009 food inventories world wide recycled from nscss org posted by phil small at 12 26 pm 7 comments labels agriculture demand farm fertility phosphorus new wiki for experimental hydrology calling all experimental hydropedologists a vast room of poster presentations greeted thousands of scientists at the american geophysical union s annual autumn meeting on dec 15 in san francisco including one announcing an experimental hydrology wiki website the wiki was created last year by llja tromp van meerveld of simon fraser university in burnaby british columbia and theresa blume of the university of potsdam in germany originally designed to meet the needs of doctoral students the wiki is now open to assist a range of environmental researchers from hydrology to related fields in science and engineering and hydropedology the website is www experimental hydrology net soil moisture is used as a prominent and encouraging example recycled from nscss org posted by phil small at 7 16 am 0 comments labels hydrology innovation news physics research saturday december 13 2008 pedology and co2 in a previous post i provided an oblique link to a news release climate change alters ocean chemistry it makes reference to conditions resonating with the theory of biorhexistacy the research team which included caldeira elizabeth m griffith and adina paytan of the university of california santa cruz plus two other colleagues studied core samples of deep oceanic sediment recovered from the pacific ocean basin by analyzing the calcium isotopes in grains of the mineral barite in different layers they determined that between 13 and 8 million years ago the ocean s calcium levels shifted dramatically the shift corresponds to the growth of the antarctic ice sheets during the same time interval because of the huge volume of water that became locked up in the ice cap sea level also dropped the climate got colder ice sheets expanded sea level dropped and the intensity type and extent of weathering on land changed explains griffith this caused changes in ocean circulation and in the amount and composition of what rivers delivered to the ocean adds paytan this in turn impacted the biology and chemistry of the ocean these folks are saying that momentous changes in oceanic chemistry recorded in the sediment record must have been predicated by equally momentous changes in soil chemistry changes tied to both atmospheric carbon dioxide content and climatic conditions from a pedologist s view it is clear that under the expanded humid warm stable conditions envisioned by h erhart for biostasis we would see deeper residual soils and more rapid formation of argillic horizons in terms of soil taxonomic orders usda more intense chemical weathering would cause the expansion of inceptisols at the expense of mollisols ultisols at the expense of alfisols and oxisols at the expense of ultisols caldeira and company tie warm climate to higher river calcium content but strongly implicate higher atmospheric carbon dioxide as the primary driver of increased chemical weathering atmospheric carbon dioxide levels do not appear to be part of erhart s construct but could certainly enhance these pedogenetic trends acid rain alarm bells are ringing faintly in the distance at this point but it is a false alarm rain water ph is due mostly to equilibrium with atmospheric carbon dioxide the carbonic acid formed buffers rain drop ph to 5 6 and higher atmospheric carbon dioxide increases the carbonic acid content but it doesn t lower ph below 5 6 other constituents accomplish that thus increased atmospheric carbon dioxide isn t being implicated in some futuristic acid rain scenario oxisols ultisols and spodosols would increase in extent with increased soil weathering but could it also mean lower plant disease and more nutritious crops increased carbonic acid would drive faster pedogenesis as would increased the biological activity stimulated by higher carbon dioxide for soil that would mean a richer solute content in the soil water more rapid formation of secondary minerals more eluviation or translocation of minerals with percolation to the list of pedological shifts at the soil order level we can add the expansion of spodosols at the expense of inceptisols something very positive can be expected for soil that is not captured in the shifting soil order paradigm for plants and soil microbes richer solute content would mean greater availability of mineral nutrients in soil husbandry and slow food circles higher mineral availability translates to healthier soil lower plant disease and more nutritious harvests what the shifting soil order paradigm does signal is that soils will be at greater risk of losing their fertility to leaching having the soil chockablock full of biochar will be essential to mitigate this last effect let s start now recycled from nscss org posted by phil small at 6 55 am 8 comments labels bio char carbon chemistry climate change environment pedology older posts home subscribe to posts atom