The ‘Dirt Trilogy’
Dave Montgomery and Anne Bikle featured in the Bowman County Pioneer.
Dave Montgomery and Anne Bikle featured in the Bowman County Pioneer.
This year, the Treasure Valley Food Coalition is shining a light on protecting topsoil, starting with a talk Monday night by University of Washington researcher David Montgomery.
David Montgomery, an author and professor of earth and space sciences at the University of Washington, said farmers only lose a small portion of their soil each year — about 1.5 millimeters. But that trend is not sustainable for long, he said, noting that soil degradation “is one of the really big challenges that humanity …
“Mostly when you think about bacteria, you think germs, right?” said Dave Montgomery, UW professor of geomorphology and co-author of “The Hidden Half of Nature.” “We thought that we should sanitize our lives and only recently we realized how much damage that has done.”
The fifth video in Jen Marlowe‘s video series about human rights vio9lations in Brazil is about AHOMAR, an organization trying to prevent pollution of Guanabara Bay.
In the wake of the tragic landslide in Snohomish County, WA, Prof. David Montgomery has been interviewed about landslide risk and prevention by several news outlets, including All Things Considered, PBS NewsHour (transcript), and KUOW.
Check out this new video from Dave Montgomery’s recent talk at Southwest Oregon Community College, related to his book, King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon: https://www.samaralectures.com/speakers-names/david-montgomery/?post_type=speaker-videos
Geomorphologist Dave Montgomery recently visited Nichols College in Dudley, MA to speak about the state of the Earth’s soil. His lecture got this nice write up on their website: http://www.nichols.edu/index.php/newsevents/news_detail/macarthur_winner_dishes_dirt_at_davis Thanks, Nichols!
Geomorphologist Dave Montgomery is quizzed in this Seattle Times article about what it means when trees look like they’re doing the samba: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/fieldnotes/2015649719_what_trees_tell_us.html