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The importance of soil support staff

Published: 03 August 2021
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Ana Maria Mingot Soriano, laboratory engineer at the Soil physichs laboratory at the Department of soil and environment, has been interviewed by the European Geosciences Union.

– Here at the laboratory, I analyze soil samples to determine their physical properties, both in loose soils and in undisturbed soil samples. I receive samples mainly from researchers and students from SLU, but also from outside the university. This laboratory is a unique facility because it is the only soil physics laboratory in Sweden that offers analyses on texture, structure and pore water characteristic’s (hydraulic conductivity/ pF curves), says Ana.

– The most exciting task is to transfer all the information from the samples that come from the field to the results that we send to the researchers that are in their offices. I think we are the connection between the field and the office, so it is very important that we understand the samples and their properties.

Read the whole interview at the the blog of the Soil System Sciences Division of the European Geosciences Union.