Calling out to all interested in doing a PhD in digital soil mapping! Please join Yushu’s lab in such a prestigious university to develop cool science on mapping dynamic soil properties at different spatial and temporal scales.

As a bonus, you'll get to collaborate with José Lucas Safanelli and myself on this great new project.

Our latest newsletter and more now up on the resources page of our website: soilspectroscopy.org/resources/

I'm so excited to finally introduce Fields of The World (FTW!) - the largest & most diverse ML dataset for field instance segmentation in satellite images. FTW has >70k samples from 24 countries (4 continents), with semantic & instance labels + Sentinel-2 RGB-NIR from 2 dates. 🧵

Many uncertainty quantification tools have severe problems: Bootstrapping -> underestimates variance Quantile regression -> undercoverage Probabilities -> miscalibrated Bayesian posteriors -> easily misspecified A way to fix these short-coming: conformal prediction

For Dr. Nigel Golden, Research Scientist and Climate Justice Specialist at Woodwell Climate, making climate science just and equitable is akin to watching an ecosystem evolve over time. 🌱 Read Golden’s essay on our Climate Justice Committee: ow.ly/YtNb50TChWc

Identifying optimal organic matter levels is challenging because, with management, ag soils can function with low SOM levels. Choosing an optimal level of soil organic matter by comparing it to similar soils/climate/land cover just sidesteps the question "how much is enough?"

Announcing Shiny Assistant, an AI-powered tool that can help you build Shiny applications! shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/shi…

In SSSAJ: X-ray powder diffraction analysis w/ full-pattern fitting method using R package powdR was confirmed to accurately determine mineral contents in agr soils, if we prepared our own mineral library for fitting standards doi.org/10.1002/saj2.2… Kohei Kurokawa Atsushi Nakao (中尾淳） & team

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Nobel Prize in Physics, and Soil Science 🏅💾👨‍🌾 CSA News DM for the full article acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cs…

Happening now "Oxisols & Mollisols - Important Agricultural Soils in Brazil and USA: Implications for Management"... youtube.com/watch?v=JLNxRx… Recording available later...

We've heard there will be a lot of cool spectroscopy work in this position!

Come work in this fantastic group to advance soil carbon science!

Our Data in Brief paper describing the Si-Ware Systems Neospectra dry soil spectral library and models is now live (as a pre-proof)... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our paper describing the development of the Open Soil Spectral Library (OSSL) is now published. A great team effort led by José Lucas Safanelli #NIFAimpacts #PLOSONE dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Very excited to have this out (and in Nature Geoscience, no less!). We returned to in-field incubations of isotopically enriched litter and pyrogenic OM ten years after inception, and were able to glean some insights into the persistence patterns of the SOM that was formed.

Low-cost scanning of fresh soils can reduce up to 40% of the project cost and deliver reliable results with the same statistical confidence. Paper with public access is available on this link: lnkd.in/ep32VqDg

Some updates from our project... soilspectroscopy.org/updates-from-t…

A call for spectroscopy solutions for soil information from from Food and Agriculture Organization #GLOSOLAN. We agree and th Soil Spectroscopy for the Global Good initiative is helping address all seven challenges identified here... a thread (1/9) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…