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May 12, 2024
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PBIO 3020 - Soil Microbial Analysis Lab
This one-week long course is an intensive laboratory experience in soil science, biogeochemistry, and microbial ecology. Students will become familiar with techniques and instrumentation to estimate soil quality and the composition and function of soil microorganisms from a field experiment.
Requisites: CHEM 1520 is required and (PBIO 4380 is recommended)
Credit Hours: 2
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Analyze soils for extracellular enzymes.
- Analyze soils for microbial community composition via characterization of phospholipid fatty acids.
- Harvest, processes, and prepare soils for chemical and biological analysis.
- Measure soil respiration.
- Measure soils for carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus.
- Understand basic operation of analytical insturmentation: microplate reader, ICP, IRGA, GC, etc.
- Understand how to interpret acquired data.
- Understand how to give an effective poster presentation.
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