TPSS 650 Soil Plant Nutrient Relations Fall 2016: Selected Web Resources

(CTAHR) The Hawai‘i Soil Atlas is an interactive tool that allows users to quickly locate and identify any soil across the Hawaiian islands, and acquire basic information about each soil. This tool condenses key data and characteristics of Hawai‘i soils from the Hawaii Soil Survey, and summarizes them into a language and format understandable to a wide audience. The “Interactive Soil Map” provides concise descriptions of Hawai‘i’s 297 different soil and land cover types, providing general information on the topographic location, climate, and more detailed information describing soil attributes such as water retention, fertility, acidity or alkalinity, organic matter, and physical structure.

(Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA) Links to Web Soil Survey data and archived pdf files.

(Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA) The Official Soil Series Descriptions (OSD) is a national collection of more than 20,000 detailed soil series descriptions, covering the United States, Territories, Commonwealths, and Island Nations served by USDA-NRCS.

(Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA) Soils is part of the National Cooperative Soil Survey, an effort of Federal and State agencies, universities, and professional societies to deliver science-based soil information.

(Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA) Web Soil Survey provides soil data and information produced by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. It is operated by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and provides access to the largest natural resource information system in the world. NRCS has soil maps and data available online for more than 95 percent of the nation’s counties.

(National Climate Data Center, NOAA) Provides downloadable data from weather stations located all over the world. Data are provided in hours and include temperature, precipitation, wind speed and wind direction. The data sets are free to users requesting from educational institutions.

(National Service Center for Environmental Publications, US EPA) A searchable database of digitized EPA publications going back to pre-1976.

(Geography Department, UH Manoa) The Rainfall Atlas of Hawaiʻi is an interactive set of maps of the spatial patterns of rainfall for the major Hawaiian Islands. Maps are available for mean monthly and annual rainfall for the 30-yr base period 1978–2007. Rainfall maps and station rainfall measurements can be downloaded.

(NRCS, USDA) This NRCS Web site provides access to natural resources assessments; data, maps and analysis; and more.

(NRCS, USDA) PDF files of publications on agronomy, biology, conservation, forestry, range, soil, water and more.

(NRCS, USDA) The online Soil Biology Primer is an introduction to the living component of soil and how it contributes to agricultural productivity and air and water quality. The Primer includes chapters describing the soil food web and its relationship to soil health and chapters about soil bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, arthropods, and earthworms.

Accessible in English, Spanish, and Portugese, this is a repository of open access research articles from Central and South America and South Africa.

Links to research articles submitted by 150 institutions from 65 countries; the Website was begun in 1975 as an initiative of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The site is maintained by CIARD an open access initiative.

Based in the Netherlands, a catalog of international agricultural resources. Check Hawaii Voyager to see if we have the items you find, or WorldCat to request an interlibrary loan.