July 2009
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Soil & Groundwater E-Zine July 2009 |
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| This Month´s Featured Articles, Papers & Reports |
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Development of a spatial European soil property data set
For many applications of modelling environmental conditions or developing scenarios for environmental change analysis information on soil characteristics form a vital component. The conditions to be estimated or modelled very often have a spatial dimension. The spatial dimension is required in the study of processes, which include movements across a surface, like soil erosion, or for which areal statistics are required and where specific features are very unevenly distributed so they do not lend ... |
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Zoos, farms, companies converting manure to compost, biofuel
Dan Corum calls himself “the doctor of doo,” the “minister of muck” and the “number one of number two.” Even though he enjoys making fun of his role as compost/recycling coordinator at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, he — and others involved in using manure for compost or biofuel — are deadly serious about their efforts. Composting of manure from zoos, horse and dairy farms, and even a massive pig farm operation in Chile which generates some 300,000 tons of waste a year, offers numerous benefits. ... |
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