Welcome to the Soil LUI Tool

The Land Use Impacts tool (LUI tool) is a multimedia, web-based experience to enhance understanding about the impacts of human land use on soil formation and soil quality through looking at three land uses on the University Endowment Lands as a case study. This project has won the Award of Merit presented by the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education in May 2009.

The Land Use Impacts (LUI) teaching tool which contains videos, photo images, maps, and data, will allow you to explore alterations of soil formation due to three land use practices and their impacts on soil quality carried out on the University of British Columbia campus as presented in the APBI 402 / SOIL 502 – Sustainable soil management course. The tool was designed with the intention of appealing to multiple learning styles and providing greater access to information. The LUI tool was created by a team of soil scientists, graduate students, and multimedia specialists from the Virtual Soil Science Learning Resources group with the intention to enhance understanding of impacts of several land uses on soil quality and soil formation.

In case that you would want to refer to this web site in your manuscripts / articles please use the following reference – Krzic M., R. Strivelli, C. Crowley, and S. Dyanatkar. 2009. Land use impacts teaching tool. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada [https://luitool.soilweb.ca/]

Funding:

The project was funded by the UBC Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund.