Dynamic Soil Properties, Soil Change, and Specialized Soil Surveys
This online engineering PDH course examines the changing nature of soil systems and the techniques for mapping underwater and disturbed areas.
This course explores the Dynamic Soil Properties (DSPs) to monitor soil function changes due to land management and disturbances. It also tackles the challenges of surveying shallow waters using vibracores and bathymetric modeling.
Furthermore, this course offers a framework for identifying Human-Altered and Human-Transported (HAHT) soils in urban settings, focusing on anthropogenic landforms and soils with artifacts like coal slag and construction debris.
Moreover, this course combines remote sensing tools such as side-scan sonar and ground-penetrating radar with traditional soil observations to generate accurate geospatial data for coastal restoration, urban planning, and hazard mitigation.
This 7 PDH online course is applicable to civil engineers, land surveyors, as well as other technical professionals who are interested in learning more about modern soil survey applications in underwater and human-modified landscapes.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Distinguishing between inherent and dynamic soil properties to evaluate how land management impacts soil health and ecosystem services
- Executing subaqueous sampling and description protocols using specialized equipment in perennially submerged environments
- Understanding subaqueous and anthropogenic landforms to predict the spatial distribution of fluid, sulfidic, or human-transported materials
- Exploring safe field practices and geophysical sensing techniques to identify subsurface obstructions and hazardous materials in urban anthroscapes
- Applying Official Soil Series Descriptions and taxonomic classes to accurately document profoundly modified soil profiles
- Evaluating the environmental risks associated with dredging and soil disturbance, including sulfide oxidation and the creation of acid sulfate conditions
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the course document titled, “Dynamic Soil Properties, Soil Change, and Specialized Soil Surveys”, which is based on the U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA Handbook No. 18, Chapters 9 through 11 of the “Soil Survey Manual”.
Once you complete your course review, you need to take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of thirty-five (35) questions to earn 7 PDH credits. The quiz will be based on the entire document.
Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.