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Welcome to the NRCS
Soils Website.
Helping People Understand Soils
Soils is part of the National Cooperative
Soil Survey, an effort of Federal and State agencies,
universities, and professional societies to deliver
science-based soil information.
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The Technical Soil Services Handbook is a
subdivision of the
NRCS directives system. The handbook
provides operational and procedural policy and
guidance for technical soil services within
NRCS. A major responsibility of
Technical Soil Services within
NRCS is to assist users with
understanding and properly using the soil survey
and to provide users with predictions and
interpretations about the behavior of each kind
of soil mapped or identified under defined
situations.
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There are seven long-term soil-climate stations
in Antarctica that were set up to study the
effects of latitude, elevation, and soil age.
Each station monitors soil temperature, soil
water content, air temperature, relative
humidity, solar radiation, and wind (speed and
direction). Measurements are made at 20-minute
intervals and averaged and recorded every hour.
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The User Guide and
Structure Diagrams are now available for NASIS
version 6.0. The NASIS
6 User Guide provides supporting documentation
on the use of the NASIS
6.0 software. The document provides explanations
in the changes from the previous NASIS
versions (Unix and Informix) to the new NASIS
6.0 (.Net and SQL Server) software and database.
The NASIS
6.0 User Guide explains the new software
graphical user interface and database changes.
It provides guidance on the use of the software
and population issues new to NASIS
6.0. This User Guide will be a dynamic document
that will continue to add additional chapters as
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The purpose of this manual is to (1) serve as a
standard reference in the description of site
and soils sampling strategies and assessment
techniques and (2) provide detailed method
descriptions for the collection and analysis of
soil, biological, water, and plant samples in
the field or field-office setting. This manual
is intended to be a tool in the development of a
long-term analytical database by which research
and other investigative studies can be more
directionally applied to onsite technologies to
improve and enhance land productivity and
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A website has been developed to assist National
Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS) soil scientists and
their supervisors in identifying training
opportunities and resources. Links are provided
for schedules, course descriptions, job aids to
supplement training, and other helpful topics.
GIS-related training includes: (1) GIS
fundamentals for all soil scientists; (2) a
recommended sequence of GIS-related training,
especially for newly hired soil scientists; and
(3) training for employees of all soil
survey-related offices.
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The Natural Resources Conservation Service
provides leadership in a partnership effort to help people
conserve, maintain, and improve our natural resources and
environment.
Last Modified: 03/08/2010
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