Introduction to Soil and Biogeochemistry

Catalog description

The biogeochemistry of soil investigates processes that drive the environmental cycles of matter, nutrients, and energy through time and space. This undergraduate course mainly introduces the physico-chemical and microbial nutrient transformations and exchange processes in soil and water, for example food-water-energy exchange nexus. In summary, students will receive in depth knowledge of biogeochemical properties of the major global systems (terrestrial, atmospheric, and oceanic systems), biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur, and patterns of productivity, pollution, and consequences of environmental change from local to regional to global scale.