Soil organisms and their activities in soils: soil ecology, biogeochemical cycling of important elements, organic matter dynamics, and applications of agricultural and environmental biology and biochemistry.
Contact Hour Distribution: 2 hours and one 3-hour lab.
Recommended Background: General soils.

Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.

Other Instructors: Zhuang, Jie | Eash, Neal

Thermodynamics of soil solutions, clay structure and surface chemistry, soil mineralogy, plant mineral nutrition, soil microbiology, water movement and use by plants, soil structure, soil thermal properties, interaction in the soil-plant environment.

Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level - graduate.

Other Instructors: Zhuang, Jie | Schaeffer, Sean Michael | Essington, Michael E

Research projects under the direction of a faculty member.

Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours. Credit Restriction: May not be applied toward the major.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.

Other Instructors: Eda, Shigetoshi | Lin, Jun | DeBruyn, Jennifer Mary

Research experience in laboratory of faculty member.

Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – junior.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor and department head.

Other Instructors: Lin, Jun | Eda, Shigetoshi | DeBruyn, Jennifer Mary

Supervised research. May be taken to satisfy honors thesis.

Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
(RE) Prerequisite(s) : MICR 401.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – junior.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor and department head.

Other Instructors: Lin, Jun | DeBruyn, Jennifer Mary | Eda, Shigetoshi