Water quality risks from soil structure degradation in Scotland

苏格兰土壤结构退化带来的水质风险

• 批准号: 2753778
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Aberdeen
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2753778
• 关键词: Water; quality; risks; soil; structure

Are soils being managed in a way that degrades their structure and affects water quality? You will help answer this question in a fully funded PhD project between the University of Aberdeen and the University of Highlands and Islands.This PhD project builds on the earlier survey in Scotland by broadening sampling beyond the agriculturally productive central belt and east coast, capturing greater diversity in soils, climate and farming practices. Rapid visual evaluation of soil structural degradation at the start of the project will identify study sites for further investigation. This will include re-visiting some locations sampled in 2015/2016 to explore changes. Most of the project involves deeper investigations at selected sites to explore how soil structural degradation links to hydrochemistry and the resulting impact on water quality. The research will encompass field-based measurements of soil and water physical and chemical properties, and laboratory column studies where soil structural degradation can be manipulated and hydrochemical processes measured accurately.

土壤的管理方式是否使其结构退化并影响水质？您将在阿伯丁大学和高地和岛屿大学之间的一个全额资助的博士项目中帮助回答这个问题。这个博士项目建立在苏格兰早期调查的基础上，通过扩大农业生产中心地带和东海岸以外的采样，捕捉土壤，气候和耕作方式的更大多样性。项目开始时对土壤结构退化进行快速目视评估将确定研究地点以进行进一步调查。这将包括重新访问2015/2016年抽样的一些地点，以探索变化。该项目的大部分内容涉及在选定地点进行更深入的调查，以探索土壤结构退化与水化学的联系以及对水质的影响。这项研究将包括实地测量土壤和水的物理和化学性质，以及实验室柱研究，其中可以操纵土壤结构退化和准确测量水化学过程。