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Ladue High School Senior, Monica Malone, won first place in the Honors Division Competition of the Academy of Science St. Louis Science Fair on Saturday, Feb. 27 with the project “A study of microbial communities from till and no-till Missouri soils using genetic fingerprinting”. The honors division is a collegiate level research studies competition for Grades 9 – 12 by students enrolled in St. Louis City or St. Louis County schools.  

Each year on World Soil Day, December 5th, people from around the globe celebrate the importance of soil as the basis for food, feed, fuel, fiber production and for services to ecosystems. Awareness and momentum gained on World Soil Day will lead into 2015, designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Soils.

We attended the area conference of the National Science Teachers Association in Kansas City (December 3-5, 2015). We had the great opportunity to give a presentation about soil respiration. Soil science has been mostly focused on physical and chemical properties of the soil. In recent years, the biology of the soil has becoming a main subject of study.