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Carbon that counts (Christine Jones)

Posted by Peter Donovan 13 years ago

Christine Jones has a new paper here.


Google Earth Engine displays satellite data on energy flow

Posted by Peter Donovan 13 years, 1 month ago

A 32-day Landsat EVI composite image from Google Earth Engine showing San Juan Bautista, California, from April 7 to May 9, 2010. The town is at upper left. The tan-colored areas, upper center, are farm fields. The darker green areas on the bottom are pasture lands and woodland.



Selman Waksman's HUMUS: Origin, Chemical Composition, and Importance in Nature (1936)

Posted by Peter Donovan 13 years, 1 month ago

Selman Waksman, a microbiologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1952 for the discovery of streptomycin, wrote this thorough and well-researched book on humus in 1936. It is available as a 21.6 mb pdf (text-searchable) download here.


California Grassland Carbon Challenge: What we learned, advice for moving ahead

Posted by Peter Donovan 13 years, 2 months ago

photo by Carol Hirashima
In January, 7 land managers hosted me as I sampled and established baseline sites (22 total so far) for the California Challenge. The weather was ideal.


Using multi-species cover crops to improve soil health

Posted by Peter Donovan 13 years, 4 months ago

This is an excellent presentation by Jay Fuhrer, who works for the Natural Resource Conservation Service in North Dakota, USA. He uses case studies to explain how innovative use of cover crops can boost soil health and productivity, and dramatically reduce the use of artificial fertilizers.