Careers & Education

Education

Figure 1. At the “Saturday With a Scientist” event in Salt Lake City, UT, SSSA K-12 Committee member Wale Adewunmi talks with visitors about the “Soil Your Undies” activity. Photo by Liz Gillispie.

SSSA K-12 Outreach Committee: Sharing ideas that work!

December 12, 2025

Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock/ dsbedarieva.

Learning to appreciate fungi

November 29, 2025

Undergraduates require access to authentic field environments to learn effectively. An undergraduate student (left) assists a Ph.D. candidate (center) deploying targets prior to a UAV (drone) aerial imagery survey, under the guidance of an expert geospatial scientist (right), in coastal dunes on Kangaroo Island after a significant bushfire. Photograph by A. Turner.

No replacement for field trips: The importance of hands-on learning in earth science

September 24, 2025

SSSA and ASA member Clay Robinson demonstrated a runoff activity with teachers during the the 2025 National Science Teaching Association Conference in Philadelphia in March.

Teacher conferences: A pathway to fill the soil, agronomy, and crop science career pipeline

August 14, 2025

Careers

Lee Briese is a crop consultant with CENTROL in North Dakota and a Certified Crop Adviser (CCA).

A day in the life: Lee Briese

November 12, 2025

Anna Paltseva, a soil scientist who studies urban soil contamination and remediation, uses an X-ray fluorescence analyzer to detect heavy metals in a soil sample. Photo courtesy of Anna Paltseva.

A day in the life: Anna Paltseva

September 24, 2025

Debasish Saha is an Assistant Professor of Soil Science at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville.

A day in the life: Debasish Saha

August 4, 2025

Awards

Awards and Fellows

2025 Awards and Fellows

November 4, 2025

Mentoring

Mentoring.

Calling all mentors

September 24, 2025

Dr. Bill Raun's enduring legacy lives on through the diverse group of scholars he trained.

Remembering a great mentor—Dr. Bill Raun

September 11, 2025

2027 ASA Southern Branch Annual Meeting

Member Hub: The Conversation Is Happening: Are You In It?

Serve as an Elected Leader

CANVAS Academy