Congratulations to the UC Davis Soil Judging Team for placing 4th in the regional competition held at Chico State! The students braved the rainy conditions to characterize the volcanic soils of the Southern Cascades!

The UC Davis Soil Judging Team is participating in the 2025 UC Davis CrowdFund campaign to raise money for our team! 🌱🪏🌻 With your support, we can continue to send our team to regional and national competitions and continue this program for generations of students to come!

SBGG opened the fall quarter with the first Terra Talk of the year: a grant writing workshop led by LAWR faculty member Peter Hernes. We are excited to welcome new students to SBGG and UC Davis!

Kate Scow is a distinguished professor emeritus of soil science and microbial ecology in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources.

Read more about Scow's soil research and the important connection with human health in the latest Among the Academies feature: ucdav.is/3VzgTE1

Celebrations are in order for another 2025 SBG graduate Jaeeun Sohng, who successfully presented her exit seminar titled: Interactions Between Enhanced Rock Weathering, Organic Amendments, and Microbial Communities Influence Soil Carbon Sequestration. Congrats Dr. Sohng! #EnhancedRockWeathering

Congratulations to one of SBG’s 2025 graduates, Gaitan Gehin on a successful exit seminar titled Mechanisms of manganese (Mn) biomineralization by Pseudomonas putida GB-1. Way to go Dr. Gehin! #nanominerals

Big congrats to the UC Davis Soil Judging Team! At their first-ever Nationals, they placed 6th in Team Judging out of 27 schools, after only 4 days of field prep. Coached by our amazing SBG grad students, Adolfo, Connie, Jane & Ava-Rose! 💪👏 #SoilJudging #AggiePride #GradMentors

SBG students and faculty brought soil science to life last weekend at the 111th UC Davis Picnic Day! 🌱 Visitors explored Soil Science Central by painting with soil, learning texture-by-feel, and spotting live nematodes under the microscope. We love sharing our passion for soil with the community! 🤎

The UCD Soils Judging Team is heading to Nationals!
Please consider joining Emeriti Michael Singer and Randy Southard in supporting our team at the National Championships in Wisconsin! Donations will support travel expenses so our students can proudly represent UCD on the national stage. Go Aggies!

The SBG Grad Group would like to thank Dr. Seeta Sistla from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo for being our first Terra Talks presenter of the spring quarter! We enjoyed discussing Agrivoltaics, soil responses to warming in the Alaskan tundra, and California beaver repopulation!

Shoutout to SBG students Makena, Alyssa, Lauren, and Chris for presenting their research at the @asa-cssa-sssa.bsky.social California Chapter's Plant and Soil Conference last week. Lots of cool and different research on #nitrogen and #soilhealth in agricultural, rangeland, and forest systems.

The SBG Graduate Group has recently established Terra Talks, a weekly gathering of UC Davis students, post-docs, and researchers to discuss all things soil! In the past weeks, student leaders have coordinated a career panel and a communication seminar. We love to see an active community in soils!

Hello BlueSky! This is the official account for the Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group at the UC Davis. We are excited to join and contribute to the BlueSky community of scholars!

Find out more about the graduate group by visiting our website (soils.ucdavis.edu) or X account (@SBGUCDavis)