All About Microscopy

Curious about the invisible world of soil microorganisms? In this recording of the August 2023 Compost "Tea Talk" - titled “As Above, So Below: A Whole Systems Perspective on Soil Ecology” - special guest Lynn Fang, a soil scientist who runs the Soil Sessions Community Microscopy program at LA Compost (https://www.lacompost.org/soil-sessions), shares a whole systems perspective of how aboveground design and management practices influence soil health, structure, and microbial ecology, and vice versa.

  • 0:00 Introduction to the session

  • 2:30 Lynn Fang presents “As Above, So Below: A Whole Systems Perspective on Soil Ecology”

  • 25:06 Q&A and discussion

  • 35:00 More microscopy photos and videos discussed

  • 39:58 Review of microscopy keys

  • 44:12 Q&A and discussion.

A short accompanying pdf can be found here.