soil science

American  

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

• soil scientist noun

Etymology

Origin of soil science

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

Prof Lorna Dawson, head of the Centre for Forensic Soil Science at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, said she was "delighted and humbled" to be given a damehood.

From BBC

“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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Salon

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.

From New York Times