General Soil Science Links:
Soil Science Society of America homepage: http://www.soils.org/
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at WSU: http://css.wsu.edu/
Soil Quality Institute Homepage: http://www.statlab.iastate.edu/survey/SQI/
Sciences of Soils- Soil Sciences on the web: http://hintze-online.com/sos/soils-online.html
Online soil glossary of terms: http://www.soils.org/sssagloss/
National Society of Consulting Soil Scientists Homepage: http://www.nscss.org/
Intro soils info can be found here: http://www.pedosphere.com/
Intro soils class with info online from Penn State University: http://www.agronomy.psu.edu/Courses/SOILS101/Soils101.html
WWW virtual library soils and substrates: http://www.metla.fi/info/vlib/soils/#3
Basic soils class from the University of Alberta (click on soils
201): http://www.soils.rr.ualberta.ca/
Soil Classification Info:
Introduction to the world of soils (soil classification site): http://www.oz.uc.edu/~heflindm/Welcome.html
Keys to soil taxonomy: http://www.statlab.iastate.edu/soils/keytax/RevKeysSoilTax2_99.pdf
The 12 soil orders (University of Idaho site): http://soils.ag.uidaho.edu/soilorders/
Soil survey info: http://wwwscas.cit.cornell.edu/landeval/le_notes/s494ch6p.htm#3
Soil maps: http://feature.geography.wisc.edu/sco/maps/m_soils.html
Soil orders: http://soils.ag.uidaho.edu/teaching/soils206/orders/index.htm
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General Microbiology Info and Soil Microbiology Sites:
Cool microbiology site (was a pbs series): http://www.pbs.org/opb/intimatestrangers/
Glossary of soil microbiology terms: http://www.ifas.ufl.edu:7100/~dmsa/glossary.htm
Soil microbiology and biochemistry links: http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/pr_s3sm/soilslks.htm
KSU soil microbiology lab manual: http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/pr_sme/lab/welcome.htm
Great microbiology site (The microbe zoo): http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/zoo/
Another great microbiology site (the microbe world): http://www.microbeworld.org/mlc/pages/education.asp
Soil microbiology web site from Iowa State University (click on
the short videos) http://www.public.iastate.edu/~teloynac/485out.html
Some specific soil organisms web sites:
protozoa http://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/protists/gallery.html
soil invertebrates http://insect-world.com/main/soileco.html
earthworms http://res.agr.ca/lond/pmrc/faq/earthwor.html http://www.agron.iastate.edu/~loynachan/mov/ http://www.soils.agri.umn.edu/research/ars/eeae.html http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/invert/wormsnd/wormsnd.htm
nematodes http://www.nrel.colostate.edu/soil/photogallery.html
Other Links:
WSU Crop and Soil
Sciences Department
Center for Sustaining
Agriculture & Natural Resources
Soils
of Washington Interactive Map -VERY COOL!!
NEW!! Soil Art
NEW!! World Soil
Resources
National Soil Survey CenterSoil Science Education
Website
National Soil
Survey Home
Tokul-
Washington's State Soil (photo and description)
SSSA Soil
Biology and Biochemistry links
University
Soil Science Departments
Soil Science Society
of America
BLM-Soil Biological
Communities
The WWW
virtual library/forestry/soils and substrates
Official Soil Series Description,
USDA-NRCS-NSDAF
The Soil Survey
Division website
Soil Information
Systems Lab at Cornell Univeristy
National Society of
Consulting Soil Scientists, Inc
Here's a free screen saver for Win 95/98 & NT
featuring Soil Order
Maps and Photos
Soil and Water
Web (lots of great links)
Updated July 9, 2004 |