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Web Soil Survey

Web Soil Survey (WSS) provides soil data and information produced by the National Cooperative Soil Survey.

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Education and Teaching Materials

What is Soil?

Soils perform vital functions to sustain plant and animal life, regulate water flow, filter and buffer pollutants, cycle nutrients, and provide physical stability and sort.

Education and Teaching Materials

WhoBuddies Adventures

The Whobuddies are six unique owl cartoon characters who really care about the environment. Each Whobuddy specializes on a particular resource. The natural resources include: soil, water, air, animals, plants, and energy.

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Tech Tools

Wind Erosion Prediction System

Wind Erosion Prediction System (WEPS) predicts many forms of soil erosion by wind such as saltation-creep and suspension including PM-10 using a process-based, continuous, daily time-step model that simulates weather, field conditions, crop growth, and hydrology.

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WinDAM Version 1.1.13

Software for routing and hydraulically proportioning the principal spillway and auxiliary spillway(s) of a dam. Suitable for designing TR-60 dams.

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Tech Tools

WinFlume - Version 1.06

A Windows-based computer program used to design and calibrate long-throated flume and broad-crested weir flow measurement structures.

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