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Terry Gompert

Posted by Peter Donovan 14 years ago

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Terry Gompert, of Center, Nebraska, USA, on March 25. Terry was a good friend and a dynamic and effective force for holistic management and soil health, and he will be sorely missed.


Carbon that counts (Christine Jones)

Posted by Peter Donovan 14 years ago

Christine Jones has a new paper here.


Google Earth Engine displays satellite data on energy flow

Posted by Peter Donovan 14 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 14 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 14 years, 1 month 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.