Courses

Experimental design; Hypothesis formulation; Site selection and sampling techniques; site characterization.  Principles of soil, water, air and plant analyses.  Instrumentation and methods of analyses – physical, chemical, microbiological and...

Potential problems and management of major soil orders of Ghana.  Soil quality and land degradation, basic concepts, resilience and rehabilitation; Soil physical degradation: extent in Ghana and their causes, e.g. deforestation, erosion, mining, water-...

Theory: Movement of water in soil: saturated water flow in soil, Darcy's law, water infiltration (horizontal and vertical), profile moisture distribution after infiltration, Empirical infiltration equations, Green and Ampt approach; Soil structure:...

Theory: Movement of water in soil: saturated water flow in soil, Darcy's law, water infiltration (horizontal and vertical), profile moisture distribution after infiltration, Empirical infiltration equations, Green and Ampt approach; Soil structure:...

Theory: Soil Chemistry (7 weeks): Nutrient elements: forms and their availability in soils, functions in plants, deficiency symptoms.  Types of fertilizers, manufacture of nitrogen, phosphorus and potash fertilizers; fertilizers and calculations...

Theory: Chemical Properties (6 weeks): Soil colloids and ion exchange phenomenon; adsorbed cations- basic and acidic cations, cation exchange capacity (CEC); effective cation exchange capacity (ECEC) of soils; cation exchange and availability of nutrients;...

Theory:  Inorganic components of soils: rocks and minerals, primary minerals, secondary minerals, clay minerals (1:1 and 2:1); weathering of rocks and minerals: types of weathering, types of parent materials; soil formation and profile development:...

Theory: Pedology (7 weeks): Concepts of soil; composition of the earth-crust and its environment, pedogenic factors and their interactions, major components of soils; introduction to inorganic components of soils (origin and nature of rocks); classification...

Theory: Pedology (7 weeks): Concepts of soil; composition of the earth-crust and its environment, pedogenic factors and their interactions, major components of soils; introduction to inorganic components of soils (origin and nature of rocks); classification...

Objective: The course is intended to introduce students to the importance of this sample course.