ATC ‘22 ARBORPALOOZA: EXPLORING THE WIDE WORLD OF TREES
Field Day Station 2: Soil Field Skills Practicum Sunday, October 2, 2022 | 7:30 am to 4:45 pm (2-CEUs/per station) Instructor: James Cassidy Location: City Park In this station you will learn the fundamental principles needed to evaluate a local soil. By exposing a soil profile and performing hands-on, experiential techniques, as well as use of mobile device optimized applications, you can learn a lot about a soil before sending in a sample for analysis saving time and money. Onsite mea - surements and observations using your hands and eyes are your most trusted data when evaluating a worksite and learning basic skills will allow you to confirm or reject published data available from published soil resources. The more you know about the soil the better you will understand your local site and how it func - tions to support basic ecosystem services trees depend on.
James Cassidy has been an Instructor of Soil Science at Ore - gon State University for over 17 years. His introductory soil sci - ence class now has over 100+ students each term and is very popular. James is also the faculty advisor for the wildly popular OSU Organic Growers Club - OSU’s student farm. Coming from a non-traditional background (music industry for over 35+ years) he is passionate about soil and is popular with students because of
his dynamic speaking style. The student farm project has over 300 student volun - teers on it’s list-serve and continues to grow. The farm cultivates over 50 different fruit and vegetable crops and is just beginning it’s 22nd season.
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