Teaching
RECURRING:
ESRM 210: Introductory Soils
Physical, chemical, and biological properties that affect distribution and use patterns of this important ecosystem component. Includes soil morphology and genesis, plant nutrition and nutrient cycling, soil water, microbiology, and application of soil properties to environmental concerns.
SEFS 510: Fundamentals of Plant-Soil Interactions
This course is designed as a combination of topics from plant physiology and introductory soils. Specific topics include the physical and chemical properties of soil; the interactions between soil, water, plants, and our environment; and the importance of soil for sustainable silviculture and food production. Course topics will evolve depending on the personal and academic interests of students.
ESRM 410: Soils and Site Productivity
This course introduces the properties of forest and range soils, especially relating to fertility and their responses to management, pollution, and natural perturbations. It includes the fundamentals of soil classification, formation, morphology, physics, chemistry, biology, and management as well as how those characteristics drive plant establishment and survival.
PAST COURSES
SEFS 507: Soils and Land Use
This course explores the connections between how humans influence the land around us, and how soils drive human activity. We dive in to the soils around Seattle, how they were formed, and what we have done to utilize them.
SEFS 590B: Soil Hydrology
Graduate level course (undergraduates by special permission) examining the importance of soils in the cycling, storage, and use of water. Topics include the role of soil in plant, animal, and human hydration, soil as part of the water landscape from macro to global scales, and the physics behind interactions between soil and hydrological processes. Specific topics include saturated and unsaturated flow, soil physical and chemical properties, water cycle, plant-soil relations, solute transport, and soil gaseous properties.
ESRM 304: Environmental and Resource Assessment
Instructor: Stream ecology module
The processes of measuring, monitoring, and assessment; illustrated in diverse environmental and resource case studies. Explores the scientific method, hypothesis testing, sampling, and experimental designs, the role of questionnaires and polling techniques, remote sensing techniques, and population measurements.