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It’s time to bury!
Hello soil enthusiasts! Welcome to the TeaComposition project website! We are so excited to get the 2018 Teacomp project started and we will be sending out kits today. These should hopefully arrive to you sometime next week! Remember to check out the website for updates, reminders and new lesson plans! We also encourage you to…
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What’s in the box?
Hello schools! We hope you have received your kits in the mail and are ready to bury your tea bags soon! Your kits have been prepared by myself (Chau) and Eugenia. We are both Senior Science Communicators at the University of Sydney. If you run into any problems along the way – chances are that…
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Five minutes with Dr Ed Jones
Hello budding soil scientists! It’s been a while, but we are back with an exciting interview with Dr Ed Jones. When you send your soil samples in at the end of the TeaComposition Project, Ed with the help of his students will profile your soil for several properties including pH, organic carbon and soil slaking.…
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What’s in store for 2019?
Hi Tea-chers and budding soil scientists, TeaComposition Project video competition In 2019, we want to engage even more schools, students and future soil scientists. We have decided to run a video competition in 2019 where classes make a short soil-related video. It doesn’t have to be fancy, our only requirement is that soil is the…
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Thanks for the soil!
Hi everyone! We hope you are or have had lots of fun digging up your tea bags and seeing what the aftermath of 60 days in soil will do to a teabag. Your soil is coming in thick and fast! So far we have 35 soil samples back and can’t wait to receive the remaining…
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Professor Alex McBratney
ARC Laureate Fellow, Faculty of Science Unlike the Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney in his famous poem ‘Digging’, I have been allowed to use the spade all my working life. Digging is my word for the study of the science of soil. I have been on a 40-year digging tour, a journey from a small part…
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Professor Damien Field
Academic Director, Sydney Institute of Agriculture I am fascinated by soil and how it provides so much for human and the planet’s health and wellbeing. As a soil scientist in the Sydney Institute of Agriculture I want to know how we can secure our soil for now and future generations. To do this, I focus…
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Dr Edward Jones
Digital Soil Mapper I love studying soil in the field and on the computer. Maps are a great way to display and share large amounts of information. At the Sydney Institute of Agriculture we make many different types of maps. Some show which areas of a paddock will yield more crop, others identify where you…
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Dr Vanessa Pino
Soil Scientist As a university student studying agriculture, I came to the realisation that the soil we walk upon is a largely unexplored world. This ignited my passion for soil and so I became a soil scientist. In my research I am investigating how soil ecosystems and how different components including plants and the organisms…
Interactive Soil Map
Our Soil Map Engineer has carefully incorporated the data obtained from the schools involved in the TeaComposition Project.