{"id":1366,"date":"2016-04-13T16:22:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T20:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2016-04-13T16:22:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T20:22:29","slug":"signs-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/2016\/04\/13\/signs-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1367\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/soils_0.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1367\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1367\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1367\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/soils_0.jpg\" alt=\"Lucian and Myles having way too much fun describing floodplain soils\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/soils_0.jpg 700w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/soils_0-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/soils_0-600x338.jpg 600w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/soils_0-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucian and Myles having way too much fun describing floodplain soils<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our measly winter has been coming to an early end this year. Even before the first spring flowers appeared, Christoph took his soils class out of the classroom and into the field. Digging was a bit limited a few weeks ago when he and his students visited Zion Cemetery, where soils are characterized by a thin deposit of eolian sediment. Here we described our first soil profile, measured infiltration rates and tried not to look too suspicious.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1369\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/soils_2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1369\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1369\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1369\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/soils_2.jpg\" alt=\"Doing a bit of sampling in the local cemetery.\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/soils_2.jpg 700w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/soils_2-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/soils_2-600x338.jpg 600w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/soils_2-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doing a bit of sampling in the local cemetery.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week we went to Wethersfield Cove, where we studied floodplains and floodplain soils. The river was still high, but none of us got too muddy, and we had a good view of the partially flooded floodplain and immature floodplain soils. Next week we&#8217;ll be digging up the hydric soils of Wintergreen Woods and, maybe, the Wilkus Farm.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1370\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/soils_5.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1370\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1370\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1370\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/soils_5.jpg\" alt=\"Lauren determining soil color.\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/soils_5.jpg 700w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/soils_5-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/soils_5-600x338.jpg 600w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/soils_5-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauren determining soil color.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our measly winter has been coming to an early end this year. Even before the first spring flowers appeared, Christoph took his soils class out of the classroom and into the field. Digging was a bit limited a few weeks &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/2016\/04\/13\/signs-of-spring\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":573,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}