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Monday 22 may 2017

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300 LEVEL    vs   500 LEVEL       4 PM

MALES

500 LEVEL   VS 300 LEVEL     4;30 PM

TUESDAY  23 MAY 2017

FEMALES

200 LEVEL   VS 100 LEVEL   4 PM

MALES

100 LEVEL VS 200 LEVEL  4:30 PM

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IS SOIL SCIENCE RELEVANT TO ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE?

Soil is a primary engineering material for road construction and maintenance. Most road authorities successfully identify and manage the physical properties of soil when undertaking road construction and maintenance. However, identification and management of soil chemical properties and soil landscape processes, and in particular, how they may influence road construction and maintenance now, and in the future, is highly variable.
Using soil as an engineering medium requires the removal of biological properties, alteration of chemical properties and reduction/removal of the physical properties (e.g. bulk density, water entry rate, porosity and hydraulic conductivity) of a soil.


However, soil physico-chemical properties may present hazards to engineering, and these risks need to be identified and managed as part of project design, assessment, maintenance and management. Soil chemical properties such as acidity, sodicity and salinity may corrode concrete and steel structures and road furniture or cause land degradation in the area of the road. Assessment of these properties, and the soil and landscape processes that affect them will be essential to the future integrity of road assets.




Soil science and civil engineering, in particular road engineering, are well established disciplines that are applied to a variety of industries. Interactions between soil science and road engineering have predominately occurred in the area of soil physics. This may have resulted in soil science not identifying important issues relevant to engineering, and the civil engineering discipline not adequately assessing and managing one of its primary materials. Using soil as a road engineering material may require the removal of biological properties, alteration of chemical properties and reduction or removal of some of the physical properties, in order for the road asset to meet it's intended design life and cause minimal impact (or vice versa) on the immediate and surrounding landscapes. Consequently, soil science is applicable to road planning and design, material source identification, road construction/maintenance and erosion control and rehabilitation of the road reserve.

1. how soil chemical properties and soil landscape processes may influence road planning and design. This will include how land use adjoining road reserves may influence the design assumptions that are used during road planning and design. For example structure design may need to consider that the soil may be more acidic or saline at some future point in the design life of the structure.
2. solutions, monitoring methodologies and technologies that can be applied to road construction and asset maintenance to address soil properties and therefore minimise road reserve and road asset degradation.
3. importance of co-operation between government agencies and the community in managing the implications of soil chemical properties and soil landscape processes on road infrastructure.



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Welcome Address by Sarah Unuigbe ,Nassalms president!!!

I Unuigbe Sarah wish to welcome you all to this great department where learning is a continuous process and great discoveries are made.
I encourage you all to make the most use of this platform in knowing your lecturers, excos and also accessing information given by the department from time to time. Take time to visit our excos profile in the department.
Thank you and Welcome.
Sincerely,


Unuigbe Sarah
President Nigerian association of soil science and land management students ,UNIBEN

www.nassalmsuniben.blogspot.com

WHAT IS SOIL FORENSICS?

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You may have heard about soil forensics through the literary character of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes used soil forensics in his investigations, but real detectives do, too.

Forensic soil analysis is the use of soil science and other disciplines (e.g. geochemistry and geology) to aid in criminal investigations. Each soil possesses unique properties that serve as identification markers. This means investigators can trace and match soils to each other. For example, clay embedded in the shoe treads of a criminal can be traced back to a specific clay type found along a lake where a murder victim was discovered.

Office of the Head Of Department

University of Benin

Department Of Soil Science And Land Management

I, Professor. Joseph Sunday Ogeh welcomes you to the Department of Soil Science and Land Management. Our Department has the vision/mission to be the center of excellence in Soil Science, Land Resource Management and Environmental studies and to provide satisfactory services to the University, general public and the private sector in all areas relating to the soil, land and environment. Due to new evolving issues related to the soil, land and environment, the department is fully equipped with qualified staff to match with every evolving issue and also based on the regular update of her curriculum. Our undergraduate programme cover courses like Soil Fertility, Soil Physics, Soil Microbiology, Soil and Plant Analysis, Soil Morphology, Classification and Survey, Chemical Fertilizer, Soil Chemistry, Soil Management, Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry. Our Postgraduate programme covers all the undergraduate courses but at an advanced level. The Department also has expertise in the area of Advanced Analytical Techniques, Fertilizer and Fertilizer Technology, Soil Mineralogy, Soil Water Plant Relationships, Soil Hydrology, Soil Physical Chemistry, Soil Pollution and Environmental management, Soil Environmental Chemistry, Management of Problem Soils amongst many others. Our graduates are able to compare with students produced from similar institution within and outside the country.

Currently the Department is conducting Research on Characterization and Classification of some of the soils within and outside its locality. Research is also going on in the area of climate change, solute and water movement in the soil, studies on bacteria and fungi activities in the soil, use of residue in soil management, carbon sequestration and nutrient needs of some indigenous crops.

Our academic staffs have the findings of their research work published in reputable Journals both nationally and internationally.

The Department is directly involved in the Journal produced by the Faculty of Agriculture where many of our local breakthroughs are published..

I encourage you to also visit our academic staff profile in the Department.

Thank you and welcome.

Sincerely,

Joseph S. Ogeh, Ph.D
Head and Professor of Soil Management

E-mail: joseph.ogeh@uniben.edu