
I go out each and every day to map soils for this cooperative soil survey, and I absolutely love my job. But I often times wonder how the information I am collecting could be better used to address the critical environmental problems we are facing today; global warming, climate change, carbon sequestration, energy shortages, and the like. This is not to imply that the information we collect lacks value. Quite the contrary. All the pHs, ECs, CECs, soil textures, rock fragment volumes, parent materials, plants, and many other types of soil data will eventually go into a published county soil survey. The interim, in essence, "draft" soils data, is published via the world wide web on the Soil Data Mart. I wonder though if there is more that this survey could be doing to provide the average user better, less cumbersome environmental data. I also wonder if the time we spend out in the field could be better spent collecting more meaningful data that would have a direct impact on scientists' ability to model the critical air/water/soil interfaces on our planet.
A recent study carried out by soil scientists at Clemson University and Virginia Tech I think speaks to some of this urgency and sheds much needed light on the direction the U.S. Soil Survey needs to take to stay relevant in an ever changing world. The lead researcher, Dr. Elena Mikhailova, a soil scientist with a background in both soils and geology, and her team looked at the 12 soil orders and how they compared to one another in their ability to store carbon.
An excerpt from the article posted on the Clemson University website is as follows:
'The study evaluated average annual atmospheric wet deposition of ionic calcium from 1994 to 2003 in the continental United States by soil order using spatial analysis of ionic calcium wet deposition data obtained from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program and the State Soil Geographic Database from the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Results from the study revealed that the total wet deposition of ionic calcium was 8.6 × 108 kilograms, which would be equivalent to the maximum theoretical formation of 2.6 × 108 kilograms of carbon as soil inorganic calcium, barring losses due to competitive processes, such as plant uptake, erosion and deep leaching. The soil orders receiving the highest area-normalized total wet deposition of ionic calcium were Alfisols and Mollisols, non-arid soils that typically are associated with the “bread-basket” regions of the United States. [Mikhailova stated, “Formation of new carbonate minerals in soils — what scientists call pedogenic carbonates — represent a pathway by which atmospheric (carbon dioxide) can be sequestered.]
And here is the key sentence that I think really pertains to what we could be doing as soil scientists to map our planet...
If ever there was an opportunity for the NRCS in general, and the NCSS in particular, to partner with fine agricultural research universities like Clemson and Virginia Tech, it is now. We could in effect map the soils of the U.S. while at the same time contribute to critical carbon modeling. The duality of our efforts could make a lasting impact on how all of humanity views soil, and its vital role in all of our lives.
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