Dr. Joseph Amsili
@drsoiljoe.bsky.social
Extension Associate and soil scientist at Cornell University
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Dr. Joseph Amsili
@drsoiljoe.bsky.social
· Jul 28
Digitally mapping soil health at regional scale: disentangling drivers and predicting spatial land use effects
Soil health (SH) is inherently dynamic, and traditional soil surveys do not capture it. Its spatiotemporal variability presents challenges to understa…
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Valentina Rubio's paper out on digital soil mapping of soil health indicators in NY. This is a very novel approach of using the crop data layer and NDVI (in addition to the standard climate and soil covariates) to predict dynamic soil health indicators.
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Great to see this "spatially explicit" update to the SHAPE Framework for scoring and benchmarking soil health indicators for any location in the contiguous United States.
acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Web app for SHAPE tool:
lnkd.in/g45pxKYq
acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Web app for SHAPE tool:
lnkd.in/g45pxKYq
acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Great to see this "spatially explicit" update to the SHAPE Framework for scoring and benchmarking soil health indicators for any location in the contiguous United States.
acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Web app for SHAPE tool:
lnkd.in/g45pxKYq
acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Web app for SHAPE tool:
lnkd.in/g45pxKYq
Valentina Rubio's paper out on digital soil mapping of soil health indicators in NY. This is a very novel approach of using the crop data layer and NDVI (in addition to the standard climate and soil covariates) to predict dynamic soil health indicators.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Digitally mapping soil health at regional scale: disentangling drivers and predicting spatial land use effects
Soil health (SH) is inherently dynamic, and traditional soil surveys do not capture it. Its spatiotemporal variability presents challenges to understa…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Valentina Rubio's paper out on digital soil mapping of soil health indicators in NY. This is a very novel approach of using the crop data layer and NDVI (in addition to the standard climate and soil covariates) to predict dynamic soil health indicators.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Dr. Joseph Amsili
The dismantling of NOAA is the dismantling of the United States
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DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases at critical forecasting centers
NOAA's nerve center of national weather forecasting is on a lease cancellation list.
www.axios.com
March 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The dismantling of NOAA is the dismantling of the United States
www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...
www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...
Basic math is important!
Elon Musk claims that mass layoffs are necessary to prevent the U.S. government from going bankrupt. @johncassidysays.bsky.social does the math. nyer.cm/imvTnSX
March 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Basic math is important!
PhD chapter 4 of 5 is now published. Check it out if you are using soil protein as a soil health indicator.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Pedotransfer Functions for Soil Protein Based on Random Forest Modeling for Routine Soil Health Analysis
Autoclaved-citrate extractable soil protein (ACE protein, hereafter referred as “soil protein”) is a novel biological soil health indicator that can indirectly capture a soil’s capacity to supply n...
www.tandfonline.com
January 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
PhD chapter 4 of 5 is now published. Check it out if you are using soil protein as a soil health indicator.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Dr. Joseph Amsili
A chemical analysis of RFK Jr.'s bottled water line, which he shuttered in 2013, found that it contained more fluoride -- the mineral he now wants to eliminate -- than is typically found in tap water. From this week's @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
R.F.K., Jr., Wants to Eliminate Fluoridated Water. He Used to Bottle and Sell It
Donald Trump’s nominee to lead H.H.S. once started a bottled-water line, Keeper Springs. What was in it?
www.newyorker.com
December 2, 2024 at 1:55 PM
A chemical analysis of RFK Jr.'s bottled water line, which he shuttered in 2013, found that it contained more fluoride -- the mineral he now wants to eliminate -- than is typically found in tap water. From this week's @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Hot off the press -
New paper assessing the utility of SOC/clay in northeast North America. We found that SOC/clay is too clay biased and that SOC/SOCexpected in pasture systems is much more appropriate tool to assess SOC levels in temperate North America.
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New paper assessing the utility of SOC/clay in northeast North America. We found that SOC/clay is too clay biased and that SOC/SOCexpected in pasture systems is much more appropriate tool to assess SOC levels in temperate North America.
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Soil organic carbon to clay ratio in different pedoclimatic and agronomic conditions in northeastern North America
Soil organic carbon levels are strongly influenced by pedoclimatic and agronomic environments; hence, establishing universal threshold values for SOC …
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December 2, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Hot off the press -
New paper assessing the utility of SOC/clay in northeast North America. We found that SOC/clay is too clay biased and that SOC/SOCexpected in pasture systems is much more appropriate tool to assess SOC levels in temperate North America.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New paper assessing the utility of SOC/clay in northeast North America. We found that SOC/clay is too clay biased and that SOC/SOCexpected in pasture systems is much more appropriate tool to assess SOC levels in temperate North America.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...