Core knowledge areas:

• Landscape pedology
• Surficial geology
• Surface and subsurface hydrology
• Vegetation
• Ecology

Activities:

• Take biophysical inventories of soil resources for environmental baseline studies and impact assessments
• Interpret aerial photography
• Model soil and terrain relationships and documentation of these relationships for land evaluation purposes
• Determine soil sensitivity to acid deposition
• Evaluate soil and land capability for various land uses
• Provide primary data for development of conservation and reclamation plans as may be required by legislation