Tracey Woodward-Vellidis
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Dr. Levi, along with colleague Dr. Nick Basinger, joined Ranger Nick in a YouTube video to talk about the importance of cover crops. Take a look!
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Grad student Daniel Jackson has developed three websites to interactively share research findings on current projects.
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The UGA Pedology team helped prepare the soil pits and helped with judging …
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Grad student Daniel Jackson published his first paper from his dissertation research. This lab study, published in the journal Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, compared different sulfur leaching rates for some soils commonly found in the Vidalia Onion growing region in Georgia and will help sweet onion producers manage sulfur to promote the…
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UGA assistant professor Matt Levi maps and models soil data for use across disciplines, from precision agriculture to fire prediction research. An earnest respect for soil and its critical functions underlies his interdisciplinary work in predictive GIS mapping. Read More
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Dr. Matt Levi, CRSS assistant professor in soil pedology, along with Tyson Ochsner and Erik Krueger – both of Oklahoma State University – have partnered with the U.S. Forest Service to research how soil science can improve wildfire predictions. Right now, most experts rely on weather data to predict wildfires. If an area is in a…
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The Dirt Dawgs, the University of Georgia’s soil judging team, placed third in the recent 2022 regional soil judging contest against 11 other universities. They will move on to compete in the national soil judging competition held in Oklahoma in March. Read More
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In his thesis titled “Quantifying spatial variability of soil texture in a Georgia Piedmont floodplain”, Derrick compared the effect of sample size on model predictions of sand, silt, and clay at multiple depths to help us improve soil mapping for precision agriculture!
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Derrick Platero, MS student co-advised by Dr. Nandita Gaur and Dr. Matt Levi, was selected as a Bridge Scholar for the upcoming 2021 ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting. The Bridge Scholars, a collaboration between the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) and ASA, CSSA and SSSA, seeks to promote…
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In his thesis titled “Spatiotemporal Scaling of Soil Organic Carbon using Soil Survey, Ecological Site Concepts, and Land Use Land Cover Data in the Southern Coastal Plain (MLRA 133A)”, Rajneesh has developed a really cool tool for helping us understand how to use existing data to predict soil organic carbon changes over time and space!…
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