This program provides opportunities for candidates interested in soil and related water resources to become a professional leader and an independent scholar. Faculty in this program are competent to prepare candidates in the subfields of Soil Science including:
- soil genesis
- soil classification
- soil morphology
- soil mapping
- soil physics
- soil chemistry
- soil mineralogy
- soil microbiology
- soil fertility
- soil conservation
- geographic information systems,
- computer mapping,
- watershed analysis,
- soil hydrology,
- soil and water management,
- resource inventory and assessment,
- remote sensing,
- land evaluation,
- land waste disposal, and
- land management.