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Among the Academies: A World Living Beneath Our Feet

Jose Antonio Vadi — September 23, 2025 - 8:29am

There is a whole world inside soil, shaping our everyday existence.

“Soil is fundamental to the functioning of Earth,” explained Kate Scow, who described soil as “alive” and “among the most biodiverse environments on the planet.”

Two Elected to National Academy of Engineering

Katherine E Kerlin — February 10, 2022 - 1:45pm

Two professors from the ɫ��ɫ, have been elected as members of the National Academy of Engineering. Professors Kate Scow and Daniel Sperling join 13 other current ɫ��ɫ faculty members who are in the academy. (See list here.)

Compost Key to Sequestering Carbon in the Soil

Katherine E Kerlin — August 14, 2019 - 3:24pm

By moving beyond the surface level and literally digging deep, scientists at the ɫ��ɫ, found that compost is a key to storing carbon in semi-arid cropland soils, a strategy for offsetting CO2 emissions.

For their 19-year study, published in the journal Global Change Biology, scientists dug roughly 6 feet down to compare soil carbon changes in conventional, cover-cropped and compost-added plots of corn-tomato and wheat-fallow cropping systems. They found that:

A Climate Change Solution Beneath Our Feet

Katherine E Kerlin — June 07, 2017 - 9:00am

Healthy soils can be a climate solution, helping farmers, ranchers and ɫ��ɫ scientists flip the picture of too much carbon in the atmosphere and not enough in the ground.