Advanced Soil and Biogeochemistry

Catalog description

This graduate course will compose pathways of nutrients in different critical zones of ecosystem which are rich in nutrients and microorganisms like hyporheic zone, vadose zone, riparian zone etc. This course will have an overview of the biogeochemical processes affecting elemental and nutrient cycling in rhizosphere to the landscape level environmental systems. In summary, students will receive in depth knowledge of soil biogeochemistry to demonstrate how air, soil, and water are unique mediums for biogeochemical cycles, identify biotic and abiotic interactions and potential exchange routes involved in biogeochemical cycles.