A 1-meter deep soil pit, with a depth measurement tape

Hatten beginning the process of decribing soil color with a Munsell book, many soil colors from temperate enviroments land on this page

Jeff Hatten's trusty shovel, gifted to him from fellow graduate students when he finished his dissertation at UW

Beginning the process of refilling the soil pits after they have been analyzed

Carefully backfilling all the material that came out of the soil pit with a heavy canvas tarp

Carefully backfilling all the material that came out of the soil pit with a heavy canvas tarp

Jeff Hatten carefully filling voids of a soil pit and trying to mimic the previous bulk density of the soil prior to excavation

Hatten beginning the process of decribing soil color with a Munsell book

Hatten cleaning off a soil pit so it can be sampled and photographed

Jeff Hatten looking upslope at the soil sampling area

Karla Jarecke carefully filling voids of a soil pit and trying to mimic the previous bulk density of the soil prior to excavation

Karla Jarecke carefully filling voids of a soil pit and trying to mimic the previous bulk density of the soil prior to excavation

Carefully backfilling all the material that came out of the soil pit with a heavy canvas tarp

OSU graduate student Adrian Gallo studies soils, and tries not to fall down the hill

soil sample; Jarecke packs soil sample for lab analysis

soil measurement in a ring-corer which is a standard volume; Hatten removing excess soil from a bulk density core

After replacing all the excavated soil, the research site looks good as new; steep hillslopes of WS02

From left to right: Lauren Matosziuk, Karla Jarecke, Jeff Hatten, and Adrian Gallo standing in one of the many precisely measured soil pits in HJA

OSU soil scientist Jeff Hatten takes a soil sample

OSU graduate student Adrian Gallo takes a sample from a soil pit

OSU graduate student Karla Jarecke samples soil in a soil pit

OSU graduate student Karla Jarecke samples soil in a soil pit

The tools of the Soil Science trade: a rock hammer ,shovel, and a bulk density corer