Laboratory Equipment and Facilities
Soil Health and Carbon/Nitrogen Cycling
Carbon and nitrogen analyzer for total and organic carbon analysis
Setup for particulate and mineral associated carbon and nitrogen analysis
Timberline flow injection analyzer for inorganic and labile organic nitrogen analysis
Li-COR 820 for mineralizable carbon, 24-hr CO2-C or 72-hr CO2-C mineralization
Microbial biomass by fumigation incubation, and microbial metabolic quotient estimation
Soil pH and electrical conductivity probes
Soil bulk density and compaction (field)
Soil water dynamics (field) and moisture content (lab)
Greenhouse gas (CO2 and N2O) emissions
Soil aggregate size distribution and aggregate associate carbon and nitrogen
Wet aggregate stability
Full set for field sampling (surface and deep core sampling)
Full set for basic agronomy research (yield and yield components)