Agriculture is facing immense challenges. We have to produce enough food while safe‐
guarding the environment for future generations. This results in the need to use less water …

Precision farming, site infrastructure assessment, hydrologic monitoring, and environmental
investigations-these are just a few current and potential uses of near-surface geophysical …

Don Kirkham was instrumental in transforming soil physics into a modern scientific discipline
by developing theories based on verifiable hypotheses, creating methods to test the …

Sustainable agriculture management typically requires detailed characterization of physical,
chemical, and biological aspects of soil properties. These properties are essential for …

The sustainable management of human activities, from production to waste disposal and the
cycling of finite resources, is one of the great challenges of research for the coming decades …

The growing interest in the maintenance of favorable soil structure is largely motivated by its
central role in plant growth, soil ecological functioning, and impacts on surface water and …

Synthesis and quantification of disciplinary knowledge at the whole system level, via the
process models of agricultural systems, are critical to achieving improved and dynamic …

The visions, directions, and images of soil science are changing. Historically, soil science
has followed a circuitous path in its evolution from a discipline with foundational roots in …

The energy balance of the earth's surface is the sum of all energy flows to and from the
surface. These include sunshine and light reflected back into space, heating of the …

Geophysical surveys are now commonly used in agriculture for mapping applications. High‐
throughput collection of geophysical properties such as electrical conductivity (inverse of …