Actinolite in thin section from a former soap stone mine. Oh the colors!
Botanical garden of Montreal with the Biodome in the background and azaleas in the foreground.
Getting a tree growth study established 🙂
Beautiful weathering profile of granite to soil on a steep slope.
Redox features are likely mobilizing metals from this soil developing on mine spoil.
Justin Mistikawy investigating beautiful actinolite and anthophylite
Corey in the Italian Alps!
Trevor 'billy goat' Mackowiak in the San Bernardino Mountains.
Enjoying some spring flowers, the Pink lady slipper in a forest of Connecticut.
Root and root-excluding soil columns prior to deployment in the field.
View of Keuka Lake Vineyard .
Collecting soil samples from Keuka Lake Vineyard in the finger lakes.
Collecting soil samples from the Ellison Estate Vineyard.
Visiting Luquillo CZO and sampling the Rio Icacos.
Annise Dobson and Juan Pablo obliging my demands for a perfect soil picture!
They say Ithaca is gorgeous. This foliage really is something golden!
The crazy snake work 'Amynthas agrestis' in the flesh. Quite ferocious.
Check out this Oxisol in the Bisley Watershed at Luquillo CZO!
Visiting the Calhoun CZO with the Calhoun boss Dan Richter!
First sign of spring of an Aporrectodea rosea talking a stroll on the sidewalk.
A complicated soil on Mt. Stratton in Vermont. An organic horizon has a red woody debris layer which sits upon an Oa horizon. The white layer is an E horizon. A Bhs horizon is squeezed between the E horizon and rock.
Check out the redox iron bands at the Calhoun CZO!
Typical evening running an Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometer for trace metals!
Checking out a slide with Dr. Devon Renock prior to micro-fluorescence.
An Inceptisol on its way to becoming a Spodosol.
Soils from New England prior to combustion. Check out the variety in color!
Calhoun CZO collecting data, solar powered no less.
An Inceptisol at Dartmouth College's Organic Farm along the Connecticut River.
A beautiful edible Spodosol!
This aquic soil in Elmore Vermont shows signs of a high water table with the grey 'gleying' of reduced iron with patches of orange from oxiding iron (like rust).