Welcome to the Environmental Soil Physics Laboratory homepage.

Our lab collectively works towards understanding the physical structure of soil and how it impacts the movement of water and solutes in the vadose zone. We work across scales ranging from the Representative Elementary Volume (REV) scale to remote sensing scales. We are actively developing new metrics and techniques to characterize the heterogeneity in the surface and near surface vadose zone for improved hydrological process understanding. We look at processes including gas diffusivity, evapotranspiration and profile soil moisture storage dynamics. We employ traditional data along with remote sensing and geophysics in our lab.
Our lab enjoys the practical environmental applications of soil physics and our interests range from improving the health of onsite wastewater treatment systems (better known as septic systems) to designing irrigation schedules for precision agriculture.