National Soil Carbon Network

Links to related science efforts and resources

Science Networks and Organizations

• Long-term Soil Experiments (LTSE):  An inventory both extensive and intensive of experiments devoted to understanding global soil change. Has map of sites, site and contact info, bibliographies, and much more.
• Forsoils: A group of forest soil scientists of broad expertise with involvement in many professional organizations, a listserv that often provides good help to researchers in need of advice or assistance.
• North American Carbon Project (NACP): Coalition of scientists measuring and working towards understanding of C fluxes in North America and adjacent oceans
• Center Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC): C cycle science synthesis: datasets, analyses, publications, &c.
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• Oregon State University Central Analytical Lab:chemical analysis of soils and other environmental samples.
  
• UC Davis Analytical Lab: chemical analysis for educational, government, and scientific research projects.
• University of Maine Analytical Lab: chemical analysis of soils and other environmental samples.
  
• EcoCore Analytical Services (Colorado State University): elemental, molecular, microbial, and isotopic analysis of soil, plant, water and other environmental samples.
• Moscow Forestry Sciences Laboratory (USDA-Forest Service): sample processing, C&N by dry combustion, N/P wet chemistry, atomic absorption spectroscopy, biochar and black carbon assays (not a service lab but open for collaborative use)
  
• University of Arizona Center for Environmental Physics and Mineralogy: for all your soil physical, hydraulic, and mineralogical needs
  
• FoReST Laboratory (Lakehead University, Ontario CA): chemical analysis of soils and environmental samples, including solids, solutions, soil fractions and biochar materials.
• New York Water Science Center (US Geological Survey): soil and water sample preparation and analysis, standard operating procedures and quality control data available
• Mississippi State Univ. Soils and Hydrology Lab: water, soil, soil extract and solid phase analysis, sample preparation, soil fractionations, biomarkers (not a service lab but open for collaboration)
• University of Vermont Agricultural and Environmental Testing Lab: chemical analysis of soils, water, and other environmental samples
• University of Georgia: Agricultural and Environmental Services Lab for standard soil and water chemistry, Soil Water and Plant Analysis Lab for stable isotope measurements, or Environmental Analysis Lab for trace elements and contaminants
  
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• PrometheusWiki: From collection to calculation, a basic protocol for sampling soil carbon and nitrogen, provided on an open-access website for science protocol sharing
• USDA-Forest Service, INT-GTR-326: general guidelines for sampling soils with additional details on the Andisols of the Pacific Northwest
• GRACEnet guidelines: how to sample agricultural soils for chemical properties and gas effluxes 
• US EPA SOP: a focus on the tools and methods used to collect soil for contaminant monitoring