Life in the lab and the field — soils, instruments, and the people who study them.
In the field
Researchers in a soil pit applying a stable-isotope tracer to trace hydraulic lift by plant rootsA researcher resting in a deep soil pit at the end of a long field daySagebrush shrubland at the Carpenter Fire study site in NevadaA weather station at Chelsea's field site in a meadow near Inyo National ForestChelsea measuring soil respiration with a LiCor chamber in a dry mountain meadowChelsea working with summer REU trainees during meadow fieldworkA conservation-tillage field kept green with cover crops and crop residueA conventionally tilled field with bare, plowed furrow rowsTwo researchers use a soil auger to collect a sample in a dry, cleared fieldA researcher measures a millet leaf with a handheld instrument in a Sahel fieldA field team gathers around a rugged laptop and sensor equipment during fieldworkA researcher collects soil samples by hand in a lush green millet fieldResearchers and farmers with a horse-drawn plow beside a weather station at a Sahel field siteAn earthworm in soil — a driver of soil structure and aggregationA student collecting leachate from an array of soil columns under a shade canopy at the FACTS Bridge siteJennifer taking a soil measurement in a bare research plot at a UC ANR agricultural stationJesseca Meyer sampling in a golden alpine meadow beside a tripod-mounted sensorMoussa Dione measuring leaf water potential in Keur Matar Arame, SenegalA researcher measuring predawn leaf water potential in the fieldREU students collecting soil gas samples in the fieldSamuel collecting an intact soil core for a HYPROP water-retention measurementResearchers setting up instruments at a field research site in SenegalTouyee Thao and a student recording measurements of tomato seedlings in lysimeter columns at a field plotTeamrat Ghezzehei at a field research site in SenegalTeamrat Ghezzehei during fieldwork in Nioro du Rip, Senegal
In the lab
Ammar measuring soil-water hysteresis on lab apparatusJing running a soil experiment in the labA researcher measuring a leaf in the labAn undergraduate student scanning leaves to measure leaf area in the labNate working in the laboratory in Dakar, SenegalNate working in the lab at UC MercedNate working in the laboratory in Thiès, SenegalScanning leaves to measure leaf area in the labClose-up of soil aggregates — the crumbly peds that give soil its structureA lab member in a coat and safety glasses in the soil physics lab, with blue pressure chambers behindA row of clear Tempe pressure cells with tubing and clamps for measuring soil water retentionA tomato fruit from a greenhouse soil–water experimentA tomato leaf from a greenhouse soil–water experimentTomato plants grown for a soil–water experimentTomato seedlings started for a soil–water experimentVivian testing the water retention of biochar in the lab
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