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.
Research Specialty
Geology
Geologic studies determine factors influencing ancient and present environments and provide the basis for applied research such as natural-hazard mitigation, building-site evaluation and minerals exploration.
Students
Soil Science Graduate Specialization
The Soil Science specialization allows students to develop expertise in basic soil science and a variety of related areas, including soil remediation, fate of contaminants in soil, soil geomorphology, and basic soil physics, chemistry or microbiology.
Research Specialty
Soils
As part of the National Cooperative Soil Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service, the division's soils program maps, inventories and studies soils and interprets this data.
Contact
| Geology & Soils Faculty Area Leader | |
|---|---|
 |
Steve Comfort |
|
205 Kiesselbach Crop Research Laboratory 1870 North 37th Street Lincoln NE 68583-0915 |
|
| 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.
