Field of Dreams - grow it and they will come… – at Spring Ridge, New South Wales

Slowly eroding clay pan near Brewarrina, NSW. The bottom 10-15 cm of the posts used to be beneath the soil surface.

Delving a Sodosol at the University’s farm “Nowley” - mixing some subsoil clay into the top 0.5 m of sand to improve water-holding capacity. @SoilSecurity @Sydney_Science @SiaSydney – at Spring Ridge, New South Wales

One Tree Hotel for sale! This ex-Cobb & Co. staging post has not had a liquor licence since 1942 and has no power, but is great for social distancing.

Fact check - there are two trees at One Tree if you squint hard. – at Hay, New South Wales

Now that’s a scalded clay pan soil at One Tree! Gypsum from 23 cm depth and a dispersive crust at the surface.

Pig face at One Tree, north of Hay in SW NSW - buy it for 10 bucks at a city nursery, or see acres of it growing wild out here...

The winners of the Indonesian Soil Judging Contest - Padjadjaran University!! That’s the biggest trophy I’ve ever seen!

Calm before the storm at the #indonesiansoiljudgingcontest

Immaculate soil pit in preparation for the Indonesian Soil Judging Contest

Sydney Uni soil judgers getting a good look at an Andisol near Bogor before the Indonesian Soil Judging Comp on Dec 3 and 4. Thanks to students from IPB Uni in Bogor for their help!

If you're horrified at the images of plastic floating in the world's oceans, have a look at this microplastics-in-soil paper we've just had published; authors.elsevier.com/a/1Zt6J… Just as horrible...

Team USyd member Lloyd Ryder takes out 1st place in the Individual judging component of the 7th Australian Soil Judging Competition, Strathalbyn, South Australia @Sydney_Science @SydneySOLES @soiljudgingau

Team USyd blown away by a sand dune profile at Monarto, SA @soiljudgingau @SydneySOLES @Sydney_Science

Eskimos have 60 words for snow; Sth Australians have 60 words for calcrete... Team USyd getting all limed up. @soiljudgingau @SydneySOLES

Coming to grips with a dark greenish grey subsoil, Dog Lake SA

Team USyd comes face-to-face with its 1st practice pit @ the 7th Aust soil judging comp #SoilJudgingAu – at South Australia, Australia

Ordovician sedimentary rocks at Berridale - but where’s the soil??

Completely in the schist of the Cooma Metamorphic Complex - GEOS2116 fieldtrip