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Sara E. Vero

Copyright © 2021 American Society of Agronomy, Inc., Crop Science Society of America, Inc., and Soil Science Society of America, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data

Name: Vero, Sara, author.

Title: Fieldwork ready : an introductory guide to field research for agriculture, environment, and soil scientists / Sara E. Vero.

Description: Hoboken, NJ, USA : Wiley‐ACSESS, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020028489 | ISBN 9780891183754 (paperback)

Subjects: LCSH: Environmental sciences–Research–Methodology. | Agriculture–Research–Methodology. | Fieldwork (Educational method)

Classification: LCC GE70 .V47 2020 | DDC 550.72/3–dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020028489

doi:10.2134/fieldwork

Cover Design: Wiley

Cover Image: © Jaclyn Fiola

With gratitude to all those friends who have dug through the earth, marched across grasslands or waded upstream with me. What a wonderful adventure.

To the reader; my grandfather Paddy Vero said that “An ounce of help is worth a ton of pity.” I have been the happy beneficiary of many kind helpers. I hope this book will give you at least that ounce of help when you need it.

“Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might”

Ecclesiastes 9.10

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