The Soils Laboratory

The ESSA-Forêts Soils Laboratory is part of the Soils and Water Management division. The Laboratory brings more accuracy to the field soils observations and description. Though its first goal is to help ESSA-Forêts students in their studies, in order to ensure its self-financement, the Laboratory can perform soils analyses its partners. Therefore, the Laboratory carries out following services:

chemical determination:

pH measurement
definition of carbon and organic composition
bases, exchangeable magnesium and potassium determination
assimilable phosphorus, manganese, iron, aluminium and calcium titration

physical determination:

structural stability , permeability measurement
granulometry
water reservation