Technology Skills and Tools Feedback Process

Analytical or scientific software

• 3dMapper
• Erosion Productivity Impact Calculator EPIC
• European Soil Erosion Model EUROSEM
• GEOEAS
• GSLIB
• Gstat
• IBM SPSS Statistics
• LandSerf
• PC-Progress HYDRUS
• SAS
• SGeMS
• SPAW
• STATISTICA
• UNSATFLOW
• Variogram Estimation and Spatial Prediction plus Error Vesper
• Water Erosion Prediction Project WEPP

Categorization or classification software

• GAEA Technologies WinSieve

Computer aided design CAD software

• Autodesk AutoCAD

Data base user interface and query software

• Microsoft Access
• National Resources Conservation Service NRCS PEDON Description Program PDP
• National Resources Conservation Service NRCS Soils Explorer
• National Soil Information System NASIS
• PedonCE
• Soil information databases
• SoilVision Systems SVOFFICE

Geographic information system

• ESRI ArcGIS software
• Geographic information system GIS software
• Geographic information system GIS systems

Map creation software

• Leica Geosystems ERDAS IMAGINE

Object or component oriented development software

• R

Office suite software

• Microsoft Office software

Presentation software

• Microsoft PowerPoint

Spreadsheet software

• Microsoft Excel

Web platform development software

• Microsoft Active Server Pages ASP

Word processing software

• Microsoft Word

Atomic absorption AA spectrometers

Augers

• Hand augers

Autosamplers

Benchtop centrifuges

• High speed centrifuges

Circulating baths

• Circulating water baths

Colorimeters

Conductivity meters

Desktop computers

Digital cameras

Drying cabinets or ovens

• Laboratory drying ovens

Electron microscopes

Fluorescent microscopes

• Epifluorescence microscopes

Gel documentation systems

• Gel electrophoresis systems

Gel dryers

Global positioning system GPS receiver

• Global positioning system GPS receivers

Handheld thermometer

• Soil thermometers

Hydrometers

• Soil analysis hydrometers

Inductively coupled plasma ICP spectrometers

• Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometers ICP-AES

Infra red or ultra violet absorption analyzers

• Infrared gas analyzers

Infrared imagers

• Infrared cameras

Ion chromatographs

Laboratory balances

• Precision balances

Laboratory beakers

• Glass beakers

Laboratory box furnaces

• Laboratory muffle furnaces

Laboratory flasks

• Erlenmeyer flasks
• Glass flasks

Laboratory graduated cylinders

• Graduated glass cylinders

Laboratory mills

• Laboratory grinders

Laboratory mixers

Laminar flow cabinets or stations

• Laminar flow hoods

Light absorption meters

• Canopy analyzers

Mass spectrometers

Microplate readers

• Microtiter plate readers

Moisture meters

• Soil moisture neutron probes

Multipurpose or general test tubes

• Laboratory test tubes

Notebook computers

• Laptop computers

Orbital shaking water baths

• Hot water shaking baths

Organic carbon analyzers

Osmometers

Particle size measuring apparatus

• Laser particle sizers

Permeability or porosity estimation apparatus

• Porometers

Personal computers

Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers

• Personal digital assistants PDA

pH meters

• Digital pH meters
• pH indicators

Photometer

• Flame photometers
• Luminometers

Polarizing microscopes

Portable data input terminals

• Dataloggers

Precipitation or evaporation recorders

• Lysimeters

Psychrometers

Radarbased surveillance systems

• Ground penetrating radar GPR
• Light detection and ranging LIDAR systems
• Synthetic aperture radar SAR

Rapid amplification or complementary deoxyribonucleic acid ends RACE technology products

• Polymerase chain reaction PCR equipment

Reciprocating shaking water baths

• Reciprocating shaker water baths

Refrigerated and heated reach in environmental or growth chambers

• Laboratory growth chambers

Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges

• Refrigerated microfuges

Sample holders

• Sample containers

Soil core sampling apparatus

• Calibrated soil scoops
• Soil augers

Soil testing kits

• Heat flux plates

Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters

• Fluorimeters
• X ray fluorescence XRF spectrometers

Spectrometers

• Gamma ray spectrometers

Spectrophotometers

Tensiometers

Test sieves

• Laboratory sieves

Thermocouples

Tissue culture incubators

• Cell tissue culture incubators