Short course/CPD
Soil Plant Environment Science
Course date: Please enquire
Course overview
Food security, environmental protection and mitigation of climate change impacts depend upon effective management of soil, plant and water interactions in the environment. This model will focus on how decisions in land management and water resource management are informed by a fundamental understanding of the science of soils and plants driving the water, carbon and nitrogen cycles in terrestrial systems.
Location
Course fee:
- £1400 - Standard. 20% discount for Cranfield alumni, 10% discount for colleagues of alumni
- £1340 - Professional/trade association discount
- £1280 - Multiple bookings*
*Minimum of five delegates.
Accommodation fee:
Accommodation is not included in the price.
How to register
To request a place on this course, please complete the online Registration Form.
If you have any queries please contact:
Academic Operations Unit.
T: +44 (0) 1234 754176
E: shortcourse@cranfield.ac.uk
F: +44 (0) 1234 751206
Cranfield University
Cranfield
Bedfordshire
MK43 0AL, UK
T: +44 (0) 1234 754176
E: shortcourse@cranfield.ac.uk
F: +44 (0) 1234 751206
Please be aware that short courses/CPD are subject to:
Booking ConditionsCourse description
- Introduction, relevance of soil plant environmental science and relationships with other modules; the context of soils and plants in the natural and managed environment
- Soil plant environment and the hydrological cycle
- Plant responses to solar radiation, temperature, drought and aeration stress
- Soil texture, structure, density, porosity and water content; measurement methods
- Water potential, flow and rates of movement and infiltration; water release characteristics
- Physical properties: 3-phase soil model, bulk density, soil moisture content, porosity
- Soil chemistry: pH, CEC, salinity and the carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycles
- Soil biology: diversity, and functional importance
- Soil survey and resource mapping (Land Management)
- Agricultural soil management, diffuse pollution and soil erosion (EWM)
- Soil survey strategy and chromatographic laboratory techniques (EDM)
- Describe the role of soil and plant science in key themes of Land Management, Environmental Water Management and Environmental Diagnostics or Management (according to MSc Programme).
- Explain the principal responses of plants to solar radiation, temperature, drought and aeration stress.
- Measure and quantify the key features of the soil physical environment (i.e. soil texture and structure, bulk density, porosity and volumetric and gravimetric water content).
- Explain the transport of water through soil, plants and the atmosphere in terms of differences in water potential.
- Explain how soil physical characteristics affect the water content for a given water potential.
- Conduct and evaluate basic soil chemical analyses.
- Describe the main classes of organisms in soil and their functional importance in soil systems.
- Apply knowledge in soil classification and mapping to problems in land management (Land Management only).
- Apply knowledge in soil plant environment science to problems and issues in Environmental water management (EWM only).
- Apply knowledge in soil chemistry and analytical methods to environmental diagnostics (EDM Only).
