Soil scientists conduct soil investigations on tobacco soils for the Cecil County, Maryland, soil survey published in 1899
The tools of the trade have evolved—we have come a long way since the pictured plane table soil surveys.
With the coastal zone soil survey, we survey dunes, marshes, beaches, and shallow sub-tidal lands to assess their suitability for hard clam and oyster habitat, carbon pools and more.
The KSSL is home to more than 500,000 specimens, 210,000 individual soil layers and more than 40,000 soil profiles.
It’s 1899, and as the world prepares for a new century, railroad tycoon Edward Henry Harriman, along with a large crew, embarks on a two-month expedition to catalog the flora and fauna of the Alaskan coast; Joshua Lionel Cowen invents and patents the electric flash-lamp; and aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright discovers wing warping for aircraft wings.
With the spirit of exploration and invention in the…
