INDIANAPOLIS MLRA PROJECT OFFICE

FOUNTAIN COUNTY UPDATE PROGRESS REPORT

September 1998


If at first you don't succeed, do another transect.

FIELD ACTIVITIES

  • Transects by team member, FY98:TIE-1, SAH-25.5, JLS-81.5, MLW-95: total-203
  • Described and sampled 4 pedons in Fountain County
  • Attended the IAPSC fall tour in southwestern Indiana
  • Collected base saturation samples for loess units in Fountain and Parke County
  • Assisted the Farm Progress show
  • Scot Haley assisted several soil judging contests
  • Jerry Shively assisted several soil judging contests
  • Mike Wigginton assisted the Richmond parks department

OFFICE ACTIVITIES

  • Maintaining data bases for Pedon and Transect form
  • Sent 6 pedons to NSSC.
  • Updated several OSD's

CORRELATION DECISIONS

  • Tentative decisions made on five new series in bedrock and outwash areas pending results of lab data.

MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVITIES

  • Attended partnership picnic at Eagle Creek Park
  • Labor day holiday



Mike Wigginton
Subset Leader
Fountain County Soil Survey Update
Indianapolis, IN

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