Measuring land management effects on soil dynamic properties
How are your land management decisions changing your soil properties? How do you know whether those changes had a positive impact on your soil? How much did the soil properties in question change?
Wetting schedules, soil additives, pest management, tilling practices, and other land management decisions influence dynamic soil properties (DSPs). These properties include soil organic matter, water infiltration rates, hydraulic conductivity, bulk density, water holding capacity, and more can be altered by the choices you make. In this 30-minute webinar, METER Research Scientist Leo Rivera discusses:
- Dynamic vs static soil properties
- Why it is important to measure DSPs
- How DSPs are measured in the field and lab
- How DSPs measurement is used in real-world applications
- And more
Presenter
Leo Rivera is a research scientist and Director of Science Engagement at METER Group. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Soil Science at Texas A&M University. There he helped develop an infiltration system for measuring hydraulic conductivity used by the NRCS in Texas. Leo is the force behind application development in METER’s hydrology instrumentation, including the SATURO, HYPROP, and WP4C. He also works in R&D to explore new instrumentation for field measurements of water content, water potential, and hydraulic properties of soil.
Next steps
- Explore the hydrology soultions hub
- Link to slideshare
- Listen to We Measure the World Podcast Episode 41: Getting irrigation right in a drought-stricken world
- Watch webinar: The fight against runoff – a study of hydrology applications
- Learn more about the SATURO and HYPROP weather stations
- Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/meter-group
- Questions?
Our scientists have decades of experience helping researchers and growers measure the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum.
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