{"id":58849,"date":"2014-04-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-senior-wins-soil-judging-national-championship-uri-team-places-second\/"},"modified":"2014-04-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T00:00:00","slug":"uri-senior-wins-soil-judging-national-championship-uri-team-places-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2014\/04\/uri-senior-wins-soil-judging-national-championship-uri-team-places-second\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 senior wins soil judging national championship; 溏心vlog免费B站 team places second"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tLincoln resident moves on to world championships in South Korea<\/p>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 8, 2014 \u2013 A 溏心vlog免费B站 senior was crowned champion at the National Collegiate Soils Contest last week in a competition against students from 18 other universities from around the country. The nine members of the 溏心vlog免费B站 team placed ninth in the group soil judging competition, held at Delaware Valley College in Pennsylvania, and their combined scores put 溏心vlog免费B站 in second place overall.<\/p>\n


\n\tBianca Peixoto of Lincoln won the individual national championship after a long day of classifying soils in three pits dug for the competition. \u201cMost of the credit goes to my professor, Mark Stolt, who teaches us not only how to judge the individual components of the soil, but also about how the soil forms on the landscape, widening our eyes to the big picture,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n


\n\tAccording to Stolt, professor of natural resources science and the advisor to the team, soil judging is a contest to correctly identify, evaluate, classify and describe the profiles of soils from pits dug into the ground. Students must climb into five-foot deep pits to identify the soil layers or horizons, describe their properties, classify each soil according to the USDA soil taxonomy, and evaluate their uses. The team and individuals with the most accurate evaluation win. Teams must qualify to compete at the national soils contest by placing in the top three at one of seven regional competitions.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe competition gives students the chance to test their skills against regional soil experts,\u201d said Stolt. \u201cJust about every environmental firm in the country is looking for people who can evaluate soils. Those that compete at soil judging are in demand when they graduate.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站 has competed in the soils contest since about 1970, and in recent years it has had tremendous success. 溏心vlog免费B站 students have won the individual national contest in three of the last five years. The University won the team championship in 2011 in Oregon and has consistently placed in the top five in recent years.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve loved soil science ever since I first learned about it in high school,\u201d said Peixoto, who placed fourth in the regional soil judging competition last fall. \u201cI\u2019m absolutely fascinated by it. Soil is the basis of life, and while so many people focus on the bigger and grander aspects of the environment, soil is where it all starts.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tFor winning the championship, Peixoto won a scholarship to compete at the first World Soil Judging Championships in South Korea in June.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe other members of the 溏心vlog免费B站 soil judging team are Ian Armitstead of West Greenwich, Michael Badzmierowski of Harrisville, Cory DiFillippo of Cranston, Chelsea Duball of Brentwood, N.H., Victoria Moebus of Norwich, Conn., Joshua Sargent of Wakefield, Ethan Sneesby of Pawtucket, and Chris Zuidema of Long Branch, N.J. <\/p>\n


\nPhoto by Mike Salerno photography<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lincoln resident moves on to world championships in South Korea KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 8, 2014 \u2013 A 溏心vlog免费B站 senior was crowned champion at the National Collegiate Soils Contest last week in a competition against students from 18 other universities from around the country. The nine members of the 溏心vlog免费B站 team placed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}