The Science of Soil: Choosing a Career

Soil science offers a wide variety of career options. The skills you gain by studying soils and environmental science are needed for everything from traditional agronomy and soil mapping to field and lab work on such topics as desertification, climate change, and hydrology. An understanding of soils is needed everywhere from rainforests to deserts and all around the world.

"The careers in USDA are incredibly rewarding."
-- Joel Brown, Rangeland Ecologist, NRCS, USDA

"I knew that I wanted a career that had to do with the environment... and it seemed to me that soils played the biggest part in that."
-- Ella McKinney, graduate student, Soil and Environmental Science, New Mexico State University

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