• ESS 492: Internship

  1.00 - 6.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Supervised experience with a departmentally-approved employer. Student is responsible for making arrangements. Requirements include maintaining a daily log, supervisor evaluations, and a final report.Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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• ESS 494: SpecTop Environ/Soil Sciences

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Varying topics and formats addressing current issues in the Environmental and Soil Sciences.Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 3 hours.
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• ESS 499: UG Research Environ/Soil Sci

  1.00 - 6.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Special research problems in environmental and soil sciences. Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours. Registration Restriction(s): Departmental approval.
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• ESS 503: Seminar

  1.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Presentations and discussions of current scientific material.Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 3 hours.
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• ESS 511: Soil-Plnt Nutr Cyc/Manag Ecos

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Principles of nutrient cycling and soil exchange processes affecting nutrient availability to plants; management of soil nturients to optimize crop growth; environmental implications of nutrient management; effects of both traditional and non-traditional nutrient amendments; and constraints to measuring plant-available nutrients in the soil.Recommended Background: Soil fertility course.
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• ESS 512: Pedology

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Physical and chemical weathering processes, factors of soil formation, soil forming processes.Contact Hour Distribution: 2 hours and 1 lab. Recommended Background: Soil genesis and classification.
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• ESS 513: Advanced Soil Chemistry

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Chemical properties and processes that operate in soil environment: thermodynamics of soil solutions and surface chemistry of soils, soluble complex formation, mineral solubility, electrochemical equilibria, geochemical modeling, ion exchange equilibria, surface functionality and reactivity, adsorption phenomena, and surface complexation modeling.Recommended Background: Soil chemistry.
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• ESS 514: Methods/Soil Physical Analysis

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Principles of water, gas, heat, and solute movement in soil/water systems; application of appropriate models for the description of these processes; methods for characterizing hydraulic and chemical transport properties of soil; applications of the science of soil physics to solution of contemporary problems in water conservation, prevention of surface/ground water contamination, and management of plant water status.Recommended Background: Soil physics.
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• ESS 515: Soil/Envirmntl Biogeochemistry

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Soils as interface between the biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and geosphere. Soil and environmental biogeochemical interfaces: cycles of critical elements, coupled biogeochemical cycles, feedbacks between biogeochemistry, climatology, ecology, and soil science.
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• ESS 516: Soil Biology/Biochemistry

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Soil organisms and their activities in soils: soil ecology, biogeochemical cycling of important elements, organic matter dynamics, and applications of agricultural and environmental biology and biochemistry. Contact Hour Distribution: 2 hours and one 3-hour lab.Recommended Background: General soils.
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