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United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service Helping People Help the Land
USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.
Luis Hernandez, Regional Director
June 16-20, 2013 SSR-12
2013 National Cooperative Soil Survey Conference–Annapolis, Maryland
United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service Helping People Help the Land
**Modeling Team Vacant
**Modeling Team Vacant
SSO 12-GRR
Grand Rapids, MI
MLRA Soil Survey Leader
2 MLRA
Soil Scientists
1 Ecological Site Specialist
SSO 12-FLI Flint, MI
MLRA Soil
Survey Leader
2 MLRA Soil Scientists
(1 vacant)
SSO 12-BEL Belmont, NY
MLRA Soil
Survey Leader
4 MLRA Soil Scientists
SSO 12-PAS Paul Smiths, NY
MLRA Soil
Survey Leader
2 MLRA Soil Scientists (1 vacant)
1 Ecological Site
Specialist (vacant)
SSO 12-STJ
St. Johnsbury, VT
MLRA Soil Survey Leader
3 MLRA
Soil Scientists
SSO 12-TOL Tolland, CT
MLRA Soil Survey Leader (vacant)
3 MLRA
Soil Scientists
1 Ecological Site Specialist
SSO 12-DFX Dover-Foxcroft, ME
MLRA Soil
Survey Leader
3 MLRA Soil Scientists
1 Ecological Site Specialist
Soil Survey Regional Director Luis Hernandez
Regional Ecological Site
Specialist David
Clausnitzer
Soil Data Quality Specialist (NASIS)
Alex Dado
Soil Data Quality Specialist (GIS)
David Zimmerman
**Modeling Unit Lead Vacant Editor
Kristina Wiley
Senior Regional Soil Scientist Shawn Finn
Administrative Assistant Vacant
SSR-12 Organization Chart
United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service Helping People Help the Land
Subaqueous Soils Ecological Site Inventory
McCauley peat corer being used on a freshwater pond in winter.
Eelgrass beds are highly productive communities, and are ecologically important because they act as a nursery, habitat, and feeding ground for many fish, waterfowl, and invertebrates.
United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service Helping People Help the Land
Digital Soil Mapping Urban Soils
NRCS and USFS are collaborating to develop respective natural resource inventories, including a component-level raster initial soil survey.
NRCS soil scientist Edwin Muñiz (second from left) investigates soil trace metal content with portable X-ray fluorescence at a community garden in Newark, New Jersey, for the Ironbound Community Corporation.
United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service Helping People Help the Land
Technical Soil Services Ground Penetrating Radar
The smiling faces of the Sustainable South Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training Academy and NRCS soil scientist, Rich Shaw (lower right), after an urban soils training class in Soundview Park, Bronx, New York.
NRCS soil scientist conducts ground penetrating radar investigations in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens for a New York City Department of Parks and Recreation restoration project.
United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service Helping People Help the Land
USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.
Contact Information
Luis Hernandez SSR-12 Regional Director
451 West Street Amherst, MA 01002
413-253-4370
United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service Helping People Help the Land
USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.
Non-Discrimination Statement
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