Scottish Rain, Productive Worms and an Archive of Soil

Scotland Outdoors by BBC

Sep 12, 202682:58Science & Medicine

Mark visits the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen where researchers are carrying out a project to restore, preserve and digitise irreplaceable soil and peat maps, aerial imagery, field notebooks and survey records colle...

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