Soil Biogeochemistry – Trace Metals and Nutrients

Picture above: downloading data from soil temperature and moisture probes at Morven Sustainability lab. Picture right: soil moisture probes at 10 […]

Soils and biogeochemistry are my favorite things to work on, but I rarely work in coastal and marine systems. They […]

New study: Perdrial et al 2026 ‘Soil Pb risks associated with urbanization histories in Springfield MA and Hartford CT USA (click […]

Spring has finally begun to show up in Charlottesville VA, in early March, with flowers popping up.  I began with […]

Big congratulations to Chattan Haselden for is 1st place poster presentation at the 2026 Enviroday poster session! His poster title: […]

Winter 2026 has been snowy and cold with total snow between 6″ and 11″ of snow. Charlottesville, VA, typically receives […]

It had been over 10 years since my last visit to Blacksburg and somethings have changed while many things remained […]

I have been attending SSSA national meetings in 2012 and enjoyed being around awesome soil scientists, biogeochemists, and geochemists in […]

Back in 2018, Dr. Annise Dobson and I (Justin Richardson) implemented a plan to investigate how surface soils behave and […]