Estimated soil carbon stocks (using model results) throughout the Mississippi River delta in Louisiana. Cooler colors (blues and greens) indicate higher soil carbon concentrations.
Researchers with NASA's Carbon Monitoring System estimated the amount of carbon stored in the soil in tidal wetlands of the United States.
Results of three carbon stock estimation approaches for the Louisiana Delta region: Left, using independently generated soil carbon maps from SSURGO; Middle, using the SSURGO bias-corrected for bulk density; Right, using single average carbon stock value from the compiled soil core data.
Soil carbon stocks for tidal wetland areas of the United States were estimated using four modeling approaches.
Installation and maintenance of in situ soil moisture sensors require extensive fieldwork. Here Ruzbeh Akbar installs sensors at a SoilSCAPE site in California. (Photo Credit: University of Southern California's SoilSCAPE project)
An update on the ORNL DAAC's Soil Moisture Visualizer (SMV) is featured in AGU's Eos, Earth & Space Science News.
