At the Sustainable Land Ecosystems Lab, our research focuses on finding sustainable solutions to problems affecting land ecosystems, including croplands and grasslands. Solving this complex problem involves researching soil health, a key part of all agricultural land ecosystems. Obtaining a soil water retention curve that extends into the Dry Range is a challenge.
Currently, it is necessary to combine the data from this experiment with additional data on another instrument. This can be less than ideal for some research objectives. The main advantage here is the amount of data the instrument can produce with relatively low user time and input.
Compared to other techniques that attempt to create a soil water retention curve with few data points, this instrument provides more precise data.
