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Division 2 – Soil properties and processes

Lay Description

Division 2 is the “How” or the fundamental science behind our discipline, the understanding of fundamental processes.

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Technical Description

Division 2 is concerned with the integration of physics, chemistry, biology, mineralogy and pedogenesis to understand fundamental soil properties and processes that control transport, cycling, speciation and bioavailability of elements or molecules.

These phenomena are studied at multiple scales ranging from global to atomic.