{"id":56,"date":"2010-07-20T10:48:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T10:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/2010\/07\/20\/environmental_research_in_kansas\/"},"modified":"2010-07-20T10:48:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T10:48:41","slug":"environmental_research_in_kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/2010\/07\/20\/environmental_research_in_kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Research in Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/Christoph1.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"217\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/Christoph3.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"179\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/Christoph2.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. William Johnson, Professor of Geology at the University of&nbsp;Kansas, Michelle Payton &#8217;12 and&nbsp;Giuliani Lopez &#8217;11,&nbsp;environmental studies majors at Trinity, analyze the magnetic properties of soils at the Konza Prairie, a long-term ecological research station in central Kansas.&nbsp; The priority of their&nbsp;research&nbsp;is to&nbsp;strengthen the understanding of the processes that affect the magnetic (and non-magnetic) properties of modern and buried soils, which is an important step in using soils as reliable recorders of past climate.&nbsp; The team analyzes the magnetic properties of soils that have experienced a range of prescribed burns for more than 20 years in order to quantify the effect of prairie-fires on soils. <\/p>\n<p>Konza Prairie is located in the Flint Hills of Kansas, a plateau dissected by small streams,<br \/>creating a landscape characterized by broad, flat-topped ridges.&nbsp; <br \/><em>Photos by Christoph Geiss, Associate Professor of Physics and Environmental Science at Trinity<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. William Johnson, Professor of Geology at the University of&nbsp;Kansas, Michelle Payton &#8217;12 and&nbsp;Giuliani Lopez &#8217;11,&nbsp;environmental studies majors at Trinity, analyze the magnetic properties of soils at the Konza Prairie, a long-term ecological research station in central Kansas.&nbsp; The priority of their&nbsp;research&nbsp;is to&nbsp;strengthen the understanding of the processes that affect the magnetic (and non-magnetic) properties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}