Overview
Geology & Soils
Geologists identify, measure and monitor key natural resources, including water, soils, minerals and oil. They study the processes that underlie the formation and distribution of these resources, and provide valuable information to businesses and policymakers.
Students
Bio-Atmospheric Interactions Graduate Specialization
The Bio-Atmospheric Interactions specialization was designed to provide students with a unique learning environment to promote understanding of the interactions between the atmosphere and the biosphere and to encourage cooperation among the community of scientists within the bio-atmospheric research area.
Data
Real-Time Groundwater Monitoring Network
This real-time groundwater-level monitoring network in Nebraska supports agricultural decision-makers and other groundwater users in assessing hydrologic drought impacts, as well as investigators seeking to improve drought assessment systems.
Research Specialty
Environmental Restoration
Environmental restoration initiates or accelerates the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged or contaminated from human activity or natural agents.
Contact
| Geology & Soils Faculty Area Leader | |
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Steve Comfort |
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205 Kiesselbach Crop Research Laboratory 1870 North 37th Street Lincoln NE 68583-0915 |
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| Phone: 402-472-1502 & Lab 472-6540 | |
| Fax: 402-472-7904 | |
| E-mail: scomfort1@unl.edu | |
Geology & Soils News
An interdisciplinary team of scientists has discovered eight rare minerals previously undocumented in Nebraska, and they announced their findings in the June edition of the scientific journal Catena, which is now available online.
UNL researchers developed an in-house SRPC production process, conducted bench-scale tests to quantify the SRPC dissolution rates, and designed an SRPC system to be applied at the landfill.
Statewide groundwater monitoring by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln paints a picture that can be interpreted many ways. If you look only at the last year to three years, the news is generally good as groundwater levels under most of Nebraska continued to gain, or at least slow their declines.
