Spring has finally begun to show up in Charlottesville VA, in early March, with flowers popping up.  I began with […]

Big congratulations to Chattan Haselden for is 1st place poster presentation at the 2026 Enviroday poster session! His poster title: […]

Winter 2026 has been snowy and cold with total snow between 6″ and 11″ of snow. Charlottesville, VA, typically receives […]

It had been over 10 years since my last visit to Blacksburg and somethings have changed while many things remained […]

I have been attending SSSA national meetings in 2012 and enjoyed being around awesome soil scientists, biogeochemists, and geochemists in […]

Back in 2018, Dr. Annise Dobson and I (Justin Richardson) implemented a plan to investigate how surface soils behave and […]

At the University of Virginia, EVSC 4270 is the introduction to soil science course to get students the fundamentals of […]

Congratulations to Alexandrea Rice for successfully defending her dissertation entitled: “Mineralogical and Geochemical Controls on Nutrient Dynamics and Forest Productivity […]

For the UVA Biogeochemistry lab, it has been a rock heavy spring semester. Nischal working on basalts, Alex Rice working […]