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The next meeting (already notified by Talitha) is on Tuesday 7 July, 1pm, second-floor lunch area, Soil Science building, UWA. The article to be mused upon is :Piao S, Fang J, Ciais P, Peylin P, Huang Y, Sitch S, Wang T. 2009. Carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems in China. Nature, 458:1009-1014.

Winter's always a nice time of year to be at uni. The weather outside actually makes you want to be inside, doing something productive, or drinking coffee and discussing ideas with people. Plus being able to park in student bays without a permit, go and get lunch at Broadway without huge crowds, talk to lecture-free supervisors about your ...

SSJC article list

[Musings by Talitha Santini] The first article for the revived Journal Club was ‘Jarosite as an indicator of water-limited chemical weathering on Mars' (Elwood Madden et al. [2004] Nature, 431:821-823), chosen by Talitha because it was a short and reasonably simple article about soils on another planet. The authors used observations of ...

I've been a little lazy with blogging over the last month. Getting some real field work done, reviving the Social Club and even getting started on some experimental work have taken up a fair bit of time. I've done inductions for three residue deposit sites and been out to have a look at them. The images on Google Earth don't really do justice to ...

FAREWELL TO THE EARTH Christopher James We buried him with a potato in each hand on New Year’s Day when the ground was hard as luck, wearing just cotton, his dancing shoes plus a half bottle of pear cider to stave off the thirst. In his *** pocket we left a taxi number and ...

[Edit at 29 May 2009 - the date has been shifted to Wednesday 3 June]   The poster at right was prepared by Talitha to publicise the first meeting of the Soil Science Journal Club for 2009...   ...we'll be discussing the article: Madden MEE, Bodnar RJ, Rimstidt JD. 2004. Jarosite as an indicator of water-limited chemical ...

It may be that we see a bit more activity on this blog, following Talitha's suggestion to crank up the old-style journal club. That is, a club with more than one person in it, who actually read and discuss journal articles, and post their musings on this site (formerly created for that very purpose). I'd be very keen on this sort of development, ...

The journal Urban Ecosystems has just published a Special Issue on Soils. As our planet and its human populations become increasingly urbanised, this would seem to be a growth area for the earth and ecological sciences. Some of the articles from this issue of the journal: A comparison of soil organic carbon stocks between residential turf ...