Measuring Soil Infiltration to improve parameters for Stormflow Modelling for Different Land uses 🌿 At Babbage Consultants Limited, teams specialising in engineering, ecology, soil and environmental sciences take a multi-disciplinary approach to support our clients. From compliance monitoring and reporting or securing water supplies to solving complex stormwater challenges, we deliver tailored solutions across the country and abroad. Our Latest Project: As part of a comprehensive soil assessment, we conducted infiltration testing using double-ring infiltrometry. Complementing full soil descriptions including soil texture, structure, voids and coarse fragment and root distribution this helps us understand soil physical properties and assess the impact of land-use changes, such as removing grazing cattle to promote regeneration of forest and reforestation of pastoral land. Why This Matters: - Improved Soil Health: Reforestation enhances soil aeration, microbial biodiversity, and infiltration rates. - Runoff Management: Forested areas reduce peak storm flows due to increased interception and infiltration rates. This helps in mitigating risks like erosion and eutrophication. - Data-Driven Decisions: Our findings are aimed at supporting the refinement of Runoff Curve Numbers (CN), which are currently based on SCS 1986 U.S. standards. By incorporating locally relevant data and updated land-use parameters, we can improve hydrological storm flow models. This will lead to more effective stormwater management strategies and enhanced resource efficiency, benefiting communities and the environment. This project highlights how forest regeneration and reforestation influence soil properties, runoff and erosion dynamics and the effect of this on aquatic ecosystems. If you're interested in this topic, get in touch with Judith today! Judith van Dijk Environmental Scientist and Soil Specialist judith.vandijk@babbage.co.nz #SoilHealth #InfiltrationTesting #Reforestation #SustainableLandManagement #StormwaterManagement #EnvironmentalScience #Ecology #Hydrology #SustainableSolutions #Biodiversity #SoilRestoration #WaterResources #ClimateResilience #Babbage
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Revolutionary Study Unveils Remote Sensing’s Impact on Water Management In the ever-evolving landscape of agriculture, understanding the intricate dance between water and plants is paramount. A recent study published in the Journal of Landscape Ecology shines a spotlight on evapotranspiration (ET), a process that plays https://lnkd.in/eN-cBzhz
Revolutionary Study Unveils Remote Sensing’s Impact on Water Management
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Soil Ecology Lab (SEL) team kicking off activities for 2025. The “Agrivoltaics for Climate-Smart Agriculture” Project will quantify greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) with a focus on: (1) modeling of GHG emission reductions linked to fossil-fuel savings and (2) direct physical measurements in the field. The combination of models to compute GHGs reduced by solar power deployment and a robust set of field measurements to assess soil GHG flux and carbon sequestration will allow our team to realizable estimate the overall GHG benefits of agrivoltaics. SEL is also part of the Texas Climate-Smart Initiative. A five-year pilot project led by Texas A&M AgriLife Research and funded by USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service. This groundbreaking initiative aims to foster climate-smart agriculture for all major Texas agricultural commodities and create market opportunities across the commodities. Soil Ecology Lab: https://lnkd.in/dqy7MbJC #agrivoltaics #ghg #greenhousegases #climatesmartagriculture #csa #UTRGV
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Dear Colleagues, Soil loss is a global challenge that threatens ecosystems and the sustainability of human society, exacerbated by human activities such as deforestation, construction, and agriculture, as well as the intensifying effects of climate change. Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), leveraging vegetation to mitigate soil erosion and enhance soil stability, offer sustainable and effective approaches to address these challenges across diverse environments, including urban, agricultural, and forested areas. The Research Topic, “Nature-Based Solutions for Managing Soil Erosion and Enhancing Soil Stability,” is organized in collaboration with Alessio Cislaghi and Dr. Ehsan Abdi, and seeks multidisciplinary contributions showcasing innovative applications of NBS for erosion control, soil stabilization, and shallow landslide prevention. We welcome original research, reviews, and brief communications on themes such as vegetation-based soil stabilization, plant-soil interactions, multiscale approaches to NBS, and methods for monitoring and evaluating NBS effectiveness. For more details and to contribute, visit the Research Topic page: https://lnkd.in/ezit4Cxg #naturebasedsolutions #soilerosion #soilstability #landslide #shallowlandslide #fiberbundlemodel #rootbundlemodel #WWmodel #Factorofsafty #soilbioengineering #soilreinforcement #rootcohesion #tensilestrgth #rootresistance #tensileforce #landmanagement #ecosystemrestoration #sustainability #soilhealth #agroforestry #environmentalresearch #ecologicalengineering #research #callforpapers #frontiers
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As I start my last semester as an Environmental Sciences major at San Diego State University, I wanted to share some of the work that I am proud to have completed in Fall ‘24. I would also like to acknowledge and thank my wonderful professors whose passion for their subject and students reminded me why I pursue this degree. In my Remote Sensing and GIS in Geological and Environmental Sciences course, I became proficient in ArcGIS Pro under Dr. Anna Foster’s mentoring, completing projects and maps on watershed science, public transportation assessment, and natural disaster mitigation. For my final project, I conducted a gap analysis and conservation suitability model to assess the protection of burrowing owls in California, learning how invaluable ArcGIS can be for conservation management. You can check out my storymap here: https://arcg.is/S1izq0. You can view my ArcGIS maps from the semester here: https://lnkd.in/gWDJzQHF. In my Conservation Ecology course, Professor Ryan Hanscom and TA Emma McAndrews led us through critical discussions on: ecosystem and restoration management, reserve design, habitat fragmentation and the importance of corridors, invasive species management, traditional ecological knowledge, and applications of island biogeography. We also worked with data from Nachusa Grasslands, Illinois, collected by a team of SDSU researchers led by Dr. Nicholas Barber. For our final group project, we proposed a research question based on the available data, conducted a literature review and statistical analysis on our selected data, and presented our findings in a research paper and presentation. My group explored the potential relationship between dung beetle abundance and soil microbe diversity in tallgrass prairie ecosystems as our final project. You can read our paper here: https://lnkd.in/gzek_x_k. For my senior research capstone course, ENV S498A, I conducted research in the Bova Paleoceanography and Climate Lab with Dr. Samantha Bova and lab technician, Tyler Hayduk. I completed alkenone paleothermometry analyses on deep ocean sediment samples to use as a proxy to reconstruct historic sea surface temperatures. Working in the geochemistry lab, I gained competency in various lab procedures, techniques, and with lab equipment (e.g. silica gel chromatography, pipetting, prep and use of an accelerated solvent extractor). This was a great experience and introduction into (paleo)climatology, furthering my hope to help understand and mitigate climate change. I plan on continuing my research in the Bova Lab next semester so stay tuned for more! You can read my paper here: https://lnkd.in/gZjycwa9.
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Protection of groundwater-dependent ecosystems …. The natural hydrological system of the landscape has undergone significant alterations over the past few centuries (or millennia), with detrimental effects on both nature and humans. On the other hand, these changes have provided also several benefits for the human society (at least in few human lifetimes): for example, nowadays agricultural fields would be inaccessible to heavy machinery in time without extensive tile drainage. However, large-scale drainage and water abstraction have not only disrupted the biogeochemical cycling of groundwater and surface water but have also impacted groundwater-dependent terrestrial ecosystems in ways that are often hidden but not so the effects and these might last indeed long-time as recovering the natural hydrology is not expected in a human-lifetime at all. This issue is highlighted in a compelling recent publication by colleagues from University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University, who argue: “that the potential harm to terrestrial ecosystems by lowering the groundwater table should include the impact of both water abstraction and drainage, and, despite the discretion regarding scale, we recommend basing assessments and protection at a landscape-scale that aligns with the scale of bodies of groundwater, which typically includes a range of habitats in various ecological conditions (rdcu.be/d3Ax7).
The Water Framework Directive’s protection of groundwater-dependent terrestrial ecosystems - Ambio
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🎉 Paper alert! 🎉 I'm thrilled to announce that the first article from my PhD thesis, titled "Nutrients, isolation, and lack of grazing limit plant diversity in restored wetlands", has been published in Journal of Applied Ecology!!! 🙌 🎉 The main findings are: 🌿 Restored #wetlands had a lower plant #biodiversity compared to near-natural wetlands 🌿 #Grazing had a positive effect on vascular plant richness 🐮 🌿 The size of the local species pool, presence of near-natural habitat prior to restoration and near-natural restored #hydrology all had positive effects on plant diversity ✅, whereas high soil iron and nitrogen had negative effects ❌ Thanks to my supervisors, Hans Henrik Bruun and Lars Båstrup-Spohr, as well as the rest of the co-authors, Kaj Sand-Jensen, Irina Goldberg, Kenneth Martinsen, and everyone who contributed to making this happen. There are several other exciting papers in the pipeline on plant functional traits 🌿, greenhouse gas emissions 🫧, and hydrology 💧 in restored wetlands, so stay tuned!
Nutrients, isolation and lack of grazing limit plant diversity in restored wetlands
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