Under Our Feet

In light of global climate change and its impact on the planet, USU soil scientist Helga Van Miegroet is studying carbon in soils and its impact on the environment. For the past three years, she has been involved in research at USU’s T.W. Daniel Experimental Forest in Utah’s Logan Canyon to determine how well soils under four adjacent and varied ecosystems are able to store carbon and how stable that carbon is. Van Miegroet says the less stable the carbon, the more readily it can return to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide or be transported to aquatic systems and throughout the food chain.

For more information, contact USU soil scientist Helga Van Miegroet [helgavm@cc.usu.edu], 435-797-3175.