Chris Augustin's scientific contributions

... Chemical amendment remediation, specifically, can also can be limited by the depth of amendment incorporation, water availability Robbins, 1986), and the specific effects and limitations of the amendment selected (Qadir et al., 2001). Although in situ remediation is generally less expensive and disruptive, topsoil excavation is the most common strategy used in North Dakota for its immediacy despite its many drawbacks (Meehan et al., 2017). Soil removal and replacement destroys thousands of years of soil development and alters soil structure, organic matter content, nutrients, microbial communities, and the seedbank including the potential introduction of exotic weeds (Bradshaw, 1997;EERC, 2016). ...