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How do soil crusts affect infiltration rates? Mike is trying to answer this question and has built his very own infiltrometer to test his theories...

Rarely seen in the field. Bit strange. Nice hats.

When soils have a photosynthetic component like the cynaobacaterially-crusted Kalahari Sands have this is difficult. As this clip explains...

Again, this was difficult. It wasn't possible to insert the tube until after the soil was wetted. Never mind, we got there in the end...

Steve introduces us to the soil pit where we've been taking subsoil gas samples and monitoring moisture and temperatures

The clip shows the fenced plot on the farm where we've conducted most of the experiments.

The first of a series of clips outlining our experiments to calculate carbon dioxide fluxes through Kalahari Soils and their response to changing r...