Soil and Plant Scientists

Tools and Technology

Tools Include:

• Atomic absorption AA spectrometers
• Autosamplers
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Calibrated soil scoops)
• Light absorption meters (Canopy analyzers)
• Tissue culture incubators (Cell tissue culture incubators)
• Circulating baths (Circulating water baths)
• Colorimeters
• Conductivity meters
• Portable data input terminals (Dataloggers)
• Desktop computers
• Digital cameras
• pH meters (Digital pH meters)
• Electron microscopes
• Fluorescent microscopes (Epifluorescence microscopes)
• Laboratory flasks (Erlenmeyer flasks)
• Photometers (Flame photometers)
• Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters (Fluorimeters)
• Spectrometers (Gamma ray spectrometers)
• Gel documentation systems
• Gel dryers
• Gel documentation systems (Gel electrophoresis systems)
• Laboratory beakers (Glass beakers)
• Laboratory flasks (Glass flasks)
• Global positioning system receivers (Global positioning system GPS devices)
• Laboratory graduated cylinders (Graduated glass cylinders)
• Radarbased surveillance systems (Ground penetrating radar GPR)
• Augers (Hand augers)
• Soil testing kits (Heat flux plates)
• Benchtop centrifuges (High speed centrifuges)
• Orbital shaking water baths (Hot water shaking baths)
• Inductively coupled plasma ICP spectrometers (Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometers ICP-AES)
• Infrared imagers (Infrared cameras)
• Infra red or ultra violet absorption analyzers (Infrared gas analyzers)
• Ion chromatographs
• Drying cabinets or ovens (Laboratory drying ovens)
• Laboratory mills (Laboratory grinders)
• Refrigerated and heated reach in environmental or growth chambers (Laboratory growth chambers)
• Laboratory mixers
• Laboratory box furnaces (Laboratory muffle furnaces)
• Test sieves (Laboratory sieves)
• Multipurpose or general test tubes (Laboratory test tubes)
• Laminar flow cabinets or stations (Laminar flow hoods)
• Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
• Particle size measuring apparatus (Laser particle sizers)
• Radarbased surveillance systems (Light detection and ranging LIDAR systems)
• Photometers (Luminometers)
• Precipitation or evaporation recorders (Lysimeters)
• Mass spectrometers
• Microplate readers (Microtiter plate readers)
• Organic carbon analyzers
• Osmometers
• Personal computers
• Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers (Personal digital assistants PDA)
• pH meters (pH indicators)
• Polarizing microscopes
• Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers (Polymerase chain reaction PCR equipment)
• Permeability or porosity estimation apparatus (Porometers)
• Laboratory balances (Precision balances)
• Psychrometers
• Reciprocating shaking water baths (Reciprocating shaker water baths)
• Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges (Refrigerated microfuges)
• Sample holders (Sample containers)
• Hydrometers (Soil analysis hydrometers)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Soil augers)
• Moisture meters (Soil moisture neutron probes)
• Handheld thermometer (Soil thermometers)
• Spectrophotometers
• Radarbased surveillance systems (Synthetic aperture radar SAR)
• Tensiometers
• Thermocouples
• Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters (X ray fluorescence XRF spectrometers)

Technologies Include:

• Analytical or scientific software

• 3dMapper
• Erosion Productivity Impact Calculator EPIC
• European Soil Erosion Model EUROSEM
• GEOEAS
• GSLIB
• Gstat
• LandSerf
• PC-Progress HYDRUS
• S-GeMS
• SAS software
• SPAW
• SPSS software
• StatSoft STATISTICA software
• UNSATFLOW
• Variogram Estimation and Spatial Prediction plus Error Vesper
• Water Erosion Prediction Project WEPP

• Categorization or classification software

• GAEA Technologies WinSieve

• Computer aided design CAD software

• Autodesk AutoCAD software

• Data base user interface and query software

• National Resources Conservation Service NRCS PEDON Description Program PDP
• National Resources Conservation Service NRCS Soils Explorer
• National Soil Information System NASIS
• PedonCE
• Soil information databases
• SoilVision Systems SoilVision software

• Map creation software

• ESRI ArcGIS software
• GIS software
• Leica Geosystems ERDAS IMAGINE

• Object or component oriented development software

• R

• Office suite software

• Microsoft Office software

• Spreadsheet software

• Microsoft Excel

• Word processing software

• Microsoft Word

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet291)