Summer intern Lilly Merz prepares samples. | Ed White photo
The main hallways at the University of Manitoba are mostly empty and the campus quiet during the summer, but it’s as busy and buzzing as ever inside the soil science department’s laboratories.
Professors, graduate students and undergraduate researchers take advantage of the “quiet” months to press ahead with agricultural research. | Ed White photos
The lab’s tools of the trade sit on a counter. | Ed White photoPh.D. student Charitha Hansima works with soil samples. | Ed White photoMaster’s student Daniel Solomon describes soil-root interactions. | Ed White photoSoil science professor Inoka Amarakoon, left, talks to visiting agricultural journalists with RBC Scholar Briee Villeneuve-Armstrong. | Ed White photo
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