Soil Water Systems
Advisor: Joe Kleiss, Ph. D.
Explore the dynamic connection between soils and water quality.
NC State’s Soil and Water Systems concentration provides a framework for understanding the importance of land management on the quantity and quality of surface waters. As surface waters flow across vast expanses of the landscape and ultimately become run-off, they reach stable surface waters such as lakes, or seep into soils and rock formations to become ground water. Surface waters, whether flowing or standing, also interact with soils that affect water chemistry. Course work emphasizes basic soil science courses, along with surface hydrology, hydrogeology, oceanography, and limnology. These water management science courses provide the framework for understanding the connections that form the soil and water system.
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