soil science

noun

1. the science that deals with the study of soils.

Other Word Forms

• soil scientist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of soil science¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

“I got to use all different parts of my brain,” said Perrone, who started a full-time job that utilizes her Ph.D. in soil science last week.

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The data gathered in the program applies to ecology, weather, oceanography, soil science, biology and satellite calibration/validation research.

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I learned a lot about soil science in this book and what certain pesticides and other things that people use to make the growing process easier do to the soil, and then what that does to the land overall.

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In 2018, Anastasia Shatilovich, a scientist from the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science RAS in Russia, thawed two female worms from a fossilized burrow dug by gophers in the Arctic.

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When policy helps farmers get compensation for better soil health practices and is at “the heart of a national conversation that involves the government, academia, and industry, that is a good thing,” Shalamar Armstrong, an associate professor of agronomy at Purdue University who studies soil science, said in an email.

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