Professor Bockheim from the Department of Soil Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has worked extensively in the ice-free areas of Antarctica, looking particularly at soil formation in these distinctive zones.
At the University of Wisconsin Professor Bockheim teaches soils and environmental quality, environmental biogeochemistry and pedology.
At Lincoln he will present a seminar entitled Soils and Soil Formation in Antarctica: 40 years on ice.
Professor Bockheim is passing through New Zealand on his way to Antarctica joining three Lincoln University soil scientists, Dr Peter Almond, Dr Carol Smith, and Fiona Shanhun. They will be working in the Darwin Glacier region as part of the Latitudinal Gradient Project (LGP) and the McMurdo Dry Valleys where among other work they will collect samples of salts formed in soils up to 50,000 years old. They will be in Antarctica for about two months.
Professor Bockheim’s Lincoln seminar is in Room B310 at 12.40pm on Thursday 11 December.