paleorthid's Bookmarks About "science"

No Miracles

Charcoal cannot replace the need for adding mineral nutrients.

by paleorthid 2008-06-09 16:56 agrichar · bio-char · carbon · environment · farm · fertility · nutrition · phosphorus · science · soil · carbon_credits

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transect points: Triclosan, Triclocarban Concern

The environmental persistence of these compounds, used as an antimicrobial agent in hand soap, is remarkable. More than a million pounds of these chemicals flow into the nation's sewers every year. Between 50 and 75% of this ends up land applied as sludge. Triclocarban has been determined by the FDA as having no verifiable benefit. Despite a lack of evidence that these compounds accomplish anything beneficial, usage rate is very high among consumers. Among the households I have surveyed, it approaches saturation. It makes little sense to land apply recalcitrant compounds that needlessly get rid of soil microbes. Fomenting the growth of resistant strains of disease organisms is only one concern. Soil functional capacity is largely mediated by living processes. It is the height of folly to jeopardize those functions for a useless consumer item.

by paleorthid 2007-02-05 16:39 biosolids · health · microbiology · science · soil

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Evolution Research - General Evolution News: Metagenomics: Investigating the invisible life in our environment

Data indicates microbes have more difficulty adapting than previously thought.

by paleorthid 2007-02-05 01:32 soil · biology · genome · rna · ecology · environment · fungi · bacteria · habitat · microbiology · research · science · soil_microbiology

http://evomech1.blogspot.com/2007/02/metagenomics-investigating-invisible.html - cached - mail it - history

Opinion: How biofuels could cut carbon emissions, produce energy and restore dead land « Not exactly rocket science

plant diversity and low input biomass for biofuel

by paleorthid 2007-02-05 01:25 soil · environment · co2 · biofuel · research · opinion · science · carbon_sequestration · conservation

http://notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/opinion-how-biofuels-could-cut-carbon-emissions-produce-energy-a... - cached - mail it - history

transect points: Soil Science has Changed

Edaphology is the study of soil (edaphic) effects. Until about 25 years ago, it was mostly synonymous with agricultural soil science as distinguished from pedology, the study of soil in its natural setting. Edaphology now encompasses the new field of environmental soil science, with its more formal emphasis on interdependent living processes in soil.

by paleorthid 2007-02-04 16:48 soil · science · history · ecology · edaphology · environment

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transect points: Teaming with Microbes Arrived Today

"Teaming with Microbes", by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis. Foreword by Elaine Ingham. Strong soil science orientation. Well organized. Extensive index. Valuable guide to labs and suppliers. Looking forward to actually reading it.

by paleorthid 2007-01-25 22:36 bacteria · book · review · environment · fertility · fungi · garden · glomalin · microbiology · new · organic · science · soil

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NSCSS News and Views: NSCSS Supports Federal Research Public Access Act

The National Society of Consulting Soil Scientists supports S. 2695, the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006, as introduced, in that it reflects NSCSS goals regarding the free exchange of information, promoting soil science technology, and eliminating unfair competition from taxpayer supported entities.

by paleorthid 2007-01-24 23:38 OA · FRPAA · soil · science · research · open · access · news · release · legislation · politics

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NSCSS News and Views: Being a Client of Soil Science Education

A discussion of NSCSS' role as a client of soil science education comparing SSSA's recent message "Making Soil Science Education Relevant to Societal Needs" to NSCSS' Education Project page.

by paleorthid 2007-01-24 16:01 soil · science · education · university · consultin · SSSA · business · curricula

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Muck and Mystery: Soiled Stories

...engaging with the organic myths of pseudo-environmentalists and their historically impoverished views of agriculture.

by paleorthid 2007-01-24 09:13 soil · science · agriculture · environment · erosion · chemistry · fertility · blog

http://www.garyjones.org/mt/archives/000461.html - cached - mail it - history

transect points: The Scoop on Dirt (A Review)

Soil scientist takes issue with a beautifully written journalistic essay on soil and soil erosion. He points to two scientific discoveries, terra preta and glomalin, relevant to regenerating damaged soils in the Third World.

by paleorthid 2007-01-23 13:51 environment · erosion · news · soil · science

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NSCSS News and Views: SSSA Science Policy Office

The Soil Science Society of America's lobbying and policy efforts at the Science Policy Office, Washington, D.C., are important to NSCSS. In many ways, NSCSS was founded to give a voice to consulting soil scientists, and accordingly, advance the soil science profession in so doing. With our close relationship with SSSA, The Science Policy Office puts our best foot forward in advancing science policy.

by paleorthid 2007-01-19 00:09 politics · soil · science · SSSA

http://consultingsoilscientists.blogspot.com/2007/01/sssa-science-policy-office.html - cached - mail it - history

NSCSS News and Views: Launch of New House Soils Caucus!

The mission of the House Soils Caucus is to heighten the awareness of, and appreciation for, the importance and role of soils and soil science among policymakers and the public to promote proper soil management and conservation to ensure the continued production of high-quality and abundant food, feed, and fiber while protecting and enhancing the environment and natural resource base across the nation.

by paleorthid 2007-01-18 23:41 news · politics · soil · science

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NSCSS News and Views: Announcing NSCSS News and Views Blog for Soil Science Professionals

by paleorthid 2007-01-02 23:55 soil · science · news · opinion · blog

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transect points: Two New Soil Science Blogs

by paleorthid 2007-01-02 23:49 soil · science · news · blog

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transect points: NC Science Blogging Conference Jan 20, 2007

The world needs more science bloggers. There are a lot of science bloggers in NC. Soil science bloggers are few. There is a concentration of soil scientists in and very close to North Carolina. Soil scientists should go to the 2007 Science Blogging Conference Sat, Jan 20, 2007, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Chapel Hill, NC.

by paleorthid 2006-12-11 13:02 blog · conference · soil · science

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transect points: New Soil Science Licensing Website

Renewed soil science licensing efforts are underway in Washington State. Supporting them is a new website. Titled Soil Science Licensing, the site is available to become a clearinghouse for all soil science licensing efforts. It links to the best available information, including the list of soil science licensing boards maintained by the Soil WikiProject.

by paleorthid 2006-12-10 17:58 environment · erosion · government · health · licensing · politics · regulation · soil · science · stormwater

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Soil Taxonomy Forum

Ever wonder how long it takes to form a paleargid in Wyoming? Ask your soil genesis and morphology questions here and get an answer.

by paleorthid 2006-03-26 14:23 soil · science · pedology · taxonomy

http://clic.cses.vt.edu/forum/ - cached - mail it - history

transect points: Missoula Soil Science Consultant Speaks

Tell someone you are a soil scientist and it invariably requires an explanation of what you do. It's interesting that few of us do the same things and the telling of it reveals much about the person as well as the community they serve. For that reason I like to collect other folks' descriptions of their work. Certainly the telling of Barry Dutton's life work stands among my favorites because he built his business from scratch in a particularly cost-conscious region. He did it largely without the benefit of the 2 main drivers of regional soil consulting booms: booming suburban sprawl and booming energy prices driving increased well drilling and surface mining for coal and oil shale. I've heard several iterations of Barry's telling over the years and look forward to future installments.

by paleorthid 2006-03-25 17:50 soil · science · consulting · pedology

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The Scientist : Is Peer Review Broken?

Despite a lack of evidence that peer review works, most scientists (by nature a skeptical lot) appear to believe in peer review. It's something that's held "absolutely sacred" in a field where people rarely accept anything with "blind faith," says Richard Smith, former editor of the BMJ and now CEO of UnitedHealth Europe and board member of PLoS. "It's very unscientific, really." What's wrong with the current system? What could make it better? Does it even work at all? Indeed, an abundance of data from a range of journals suggests peer review does little to improve papers. In one 1998 experiment designed to test what peer review uncovers, researchers intentionally introduced eight errors into a research paper. More than 200 reviewers identified an average of only two errors.

by paleorthid 2006-03-13 12:06 peer_review · science

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TaxProf Blog: Congress May Mandate Open Access to Scientific Research

Supporters of open access to scientific research are pressuring the federal government to make open access mandatory, now that data suggest that the National Institutes of Health�s policy merely requesting open access to research it has financed within a year of publication is a failure

by paleorthid 2006-03-12 23:05 open_access · star2blog · science · research

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CLEAR: Soil scientist licensure

The Washington State Department of Licensing issued a December 2005 sunrise report recommending the licensing of soil scientists.

by paleorthid 2006-03-12 19:40 soil · science · license

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transect points: Smithsonian soil exhibit

This exhibit is welcomed with enthusiasm by soil scientists. It would be at any time, but now, when soil science is at the cross roads and with soil scientists keyed up about the profession, it is even more so.

by paleorthid 2006-03-12 16:18 soil · science

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What's New? HiMag Fescue

A hardy new grass called "HiMag" may help protect cattle, sheep, and goats from an affliction known as grass tetany. When ruminants�animals with four stomachs�have too little magnesium in their blood, grass tetany can result. Also known as hypomagnesemia, grass tetany causes an estimated $50 to $150 million in livestock production losses each year in the United States.

by paleorthid 2006-03-06 19:31 science · research · tetany · fescue · grass · forage · animal · nutrition

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/apr99/himag0499.htm - cached - mail it - history

California Alfalfa Workgroup Web Site

Valuable resource. Includes the complete listing of all proceedings for the California Alfalfa & Forage Symposiums. If you don�t find the subject matter you�re looking for in the latest proceedings, it�s easy to search the site to access prior proceedings.

by paleorthid 2006-03-06 17:40 agriculture · science · alfalfa · forage · resource · hints · howto

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Swans Commentary: Cliff Conner History

Conner's A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives and 'Low Mechanicks' does for science what Howard Zinn did for American history. It is an altogether winning attempt to tell the story of the ordinary working person or peasant's contribution to our knowledge of the natural world. Just as scholars like Zinn remind us that a slave, Crispus Attucks, was the first casualty of the American Revolution, so does Conner show that humble people were on the front lines of the scientific revolution.

by paleorthid 2006-02-27 10:02 book_review · science · history

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Carbon sequestration in tallgrass prairie soil

Over the course of an eight-year open-top-chamber CO2-enrichment (to twice ambient concentrations) study of a pristine (annually burned) tallgrass prairie north of Manhattan, Kansas, USA, which was composed of a mixture of C3 and C4 species, Williams et al. measured changes in the active, slow and passive pools of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N), with the goal of determining how they were impacted by the doubled atmospheric CO2 concentration of their reasonably long-term experiment.

by paleorthid 2006-02-27 01:11 CO2 · soil · science · climate_change

http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/articles/V9/N8/B3.jsp - cached - mail it - history

transect points: What is Soil Science?

While the science owes a tremendous debt to agriculturists, engineers and geologists, soil science is not subordinate to any other discipline. Any real disagreement about standing were eliminated in 1924 when the International Council for Science accepted the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS), as a full member , rather than placing soil science within either the IUGS or IUBS.

by paleorthid 2006-02-26 17:34 soil · science

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Copyright Issues in Open Access Research Journals: The Authors' Perspective

This article presents results of a survey undertaken as part of a series of work packages under a joint initiative by JISC and SURF to explore the attitudes of authors in the UK and the Netherlands towards Open Access. These and other results seem to reflect a desire on the part of academics to change the balance of rights within copyright between authors and publishers in scholarly communication journals. Libraries and academic institutes are already taking part in the scholarly communication copyright debate and could use these results to align their positions with the academics' views.

by paleorthid 2006-02-26 14:24 survey · open_access · science · research · journal · article

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february06/vandergraaf/02vandergraaf.html - cached - mail it - history

The anomalous properties of water

As water is so common-place, it is often regarded as a �typical� liquid. In reality water is most atypical as a liquid, with its properties at low temperatures quite different from its properties when hot. It has often been stated (e.g. [127]) that life depends on these anomalous properties of water. In particular, the large heat capacity, high thermal conductivity and high water content in organisms contribute to thermal regulation and prevent local temperature fluctuations, thus allowing us to more easily control our body temperature. The high latent heat of evaporation gives resistance to dehydration and considerable evaporative cooling. Water is an excellent solvent due to its polarity, high dielectric constant and small size, particularly for polar and ionic compounds and salts

by paleorthid 2006-02-25 20:50 water · chemistry · science

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transect points: Toronto Star reports on terra preta and terra mulata

The article highlights some important nuances. Terra mulata, the lighter type of terra preta, covers much more area than the celebrated black type central to the concept of terra preta.

by paleorthid 2006-02-25 14:18 terra_preta · bio-char · carbon · sequestration · soil · science · innovation · global_warming · climate · agriculture

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transect points: Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming

comment: heartburn over an expectation that the scientific community has promoted that leads us to believe that we can create a significant, persistent sink of carbon by using established farming and forestry approaches.

by paleorthid 2006-02-25 02:40 soil · science · biology · carbon · sequestration · climate_change · global_warming

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transect points: Microbial Prospection for Oil and Gas

The presence of various groups of methane-, propane- and butane-oxidizing micro-organisms can reliably differentiate between prospective and non-prospective areas, as well as between oil and gas reservoirs.

by paleorthid 2006-02-24 22:13 soil · microbiology · science

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transect points

I write at least twice a week about life as we know it and the trials and tribulations of dirt doctoring.

by paleorthid 2006-02-24 22:12 soil · science · news · blog

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transect points: Soil scientists required in Pennsylvania for septic system permits

In many states, professional soil scientists conduct the septic system site assessments required for permit approval.

by paleorthid 2006-02-24 13:25 soil · science · jobs

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transect points: My field season begins...

by paleorthid 2006-02-24 13:25 soil · science · sampling

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transect points: Orange ooze gives clues for those in the know.

Orange ooze forms where anaerobic waters seep from the ground. This can be a good and natural thing, or it can be due to contamination.

by paleorthid 2006-02-24 13:24 Soil · science · tips · microbiology · environment · metal · health · wetland

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transect points: Grazing tool for managing riparian buffers

When grazed properly, forage plants in the riparian zone can be stimulated to re-grow and contribute greatly to the health of the ecosystem.

by paleorthid 2006-02-24 13:23 news · review · soil · crust · animal · information · riparian · management · tools · innovation · science · government · regulation

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transect points: Where are all the soil science bloggers?

by paleorthid 2006-02-24 13:20 soil · science · blogs

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transect points: Thoughts on Peter Drucker

by paleorthid 2006-02-24 13:18 soil · science · open_access

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transect points: Where are the soil science jobs?

A narrow search shows the hottest demand to be currently in a narrow band along the urbanized eastern seaboard and in the Seattle WA area

by paleorthid 2006-02-24 13:16 soil · science · jobs

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