Facilities & Laboratories
Soil Physics Laboratory
The Soil Physics Laboratory has a suite of standard soil physics testing equipment that helps to measure:
- Water retention (hanging water column, pressure plate and vapor adsorption)
- Saturated conductivity (constant head and falling head)
- Unsaturated conductivity (steady state columns and multistep outflow)
- Particle size density and distribution (sieves and hydrometer method)
- Bulk density
- Porosity
- Compaction.
In addition, the laboratory has unique equipment for automated measurements of soil water tensions and water contents using small tensiometers and time domain reflectometer probes.