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Analyzing soil water retention

Analyzing soil water retention

Researchers from the University of California worked at the Canadian Light Source at the University of Saskatchewan to discover where carbon goes in soil

 
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Michael Schaefer, a former postdoctoral researcher from the department of environmental sciences at the University of California Riverside, discusses how he used the technology at the Canadian Light Source. He analyzed the carbon found in soil that had cover crops and soil without.

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It's summertime in Minnesota as a yellow Air Tractor agricultural application aircraft -- a crop duster -- responds to the control inputs of its pilot in a low-altitude dance just above the tops of the cornstalks. Enjoy! And we found a Bell 206 Long Ranger spray helicopter perched on a support truck at the edge of the cornfields, and launching from there. In our video, you can occasionally hear the rotor sounds of the crop-dusting helicopter as we see the yellow Air Tractor in a nearby field.