Shellfish, Sulfides, and Soil Carbon: Coastal Zone Soil Survey of Apalachicola Bay

Since 1899, the National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS) seeks to develop a nationwide partnership of Federal, regional, State, and local agencies and private entities and institutions with the singular goal to investigate, inventory, document, classify, interpret, disseminate, and publish information about soils. Beginning in the 1990s, the NCSS and United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS) began extending these investigations into subaquatic environments to better understand soil properties and how it affects shellfish production, vegetation, and human-driven activities such as dredging. In the Fall of 2024, one of these coastal zone soil surveys (CZSS) began in East Bay with the goal of ultimately mapping wetlands and subaquatic soils in all of Apalachicola Bay, from Alligator Point to Indian Pass. Join us for this month’s Sci-Café and listen to Reuben Wilson of the USDA-NRCS-Soil and Plant Science Division talk about initial observations of the bay’s soils and what information will be available to the public upon project completion.

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