STOCKTON UNIVERSITY

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Renee Parisi

Table of contents:
Section One introduction.2
Figure 1.. .3
Figure 2 ...4
Figure 3 .. 5
Figure 4 .. 5
Section Two Introduction ...6
Figure 5 . 6

Figure 6 .7
Figure 7 8
Soil Pit Descriptions..9
Introduction to Section 3 ..9
Figure 8 ....10
Table 1 ..11
Figure 9 .12

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Section 1: The Ecological Setting of Stockton

The climate of South Jersey is a moist subtropical climate which is between
40-60 degrees latitude, has ample precipitation, mild winters and muggy hot
summers. New Jersey is classified in the Temperate Forest biome or the Temperate
Deciduous Forest biome which has four distinct seasons. New Jersey is located on
the coast which is why we have a lot of moisture in the air which causes very
humid summers.

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(Figure 1, Aerial photograph of Stocktons Campus with, Roads, Trails, Streams, Lakes, and Parking lots)

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(Figure 2, a map of campus land use at Stockton with distinct categories.)

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Campus Land Use

AGRICULTURE
BARREN LAND
FOREST
URBAN
WATER
WETLANDS

(Figure 3, a chart of campus land use at Stockton showing the percentages of each category.)

Atlantic City

Evapotranspiration

100
80
60
40
20
0
-20
-40
-60
-80

12
10
8
6

Precipitaion (cm)

4
2
0
Months

PET

Difference

Precipitation (cm)

(Figure 4, a chart of Atlantic City average precipitation and evapotranspiration over a period of a year using monthly
averages.)

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Section 2: Soil Resources of Stockton

Stockton is made up of a variety of soils including Entisols, Histisols, Inceptisols,
Spodosols, and Ultisols. Entisols are fairly recent soils that cannot be classified anywhere else.
Histisols are wetland soils which holds a lot of organic material. Stockton is located nearby many
large wetland areas which is why this is so common. Inceptisols have very minimal horizon
development making them very new soils. Spodisols are Coniferous Forest soils, since Stockton
is located in the Pine Barrens it is no surprise that this is one of the most common soils on
campus. Ultisols are very old strongly leached soils, this is probably because the Atlantic Ocean
once covered Stocktons campus many years ago making the soil very acidic.

(Figure 5, A chart showing the transects that were taken from our soils lab. The chart shows our path and how the
soil changed as we moved to different areas.)

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(Figure 6, a map of soil orders on Stocktons campus.)

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(Figure 7, A map of soil series, this shows all the different types of soil on Stocktons campus.)
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Soil Pit Descriptions:

Soil Pit Andy Dwire, our first pit, Horizon OA was 5cm, horizon E was 23 cm horizon
B was 43 cm and horizon B2 was 72 cm. The soil was loamy sand and clay based with mainly
wavy boundaries. The structure went from granular to single grained and blocky to weak blocky.
For soil pit Leslie Knope, horizon OA was 5cm thick, horizon E was 23cm thick, horizon
B was 40 cm thick, and horizon B2 was 60 cm thick. The texture was sandy and sandy loam with
granular, single grained, and weak blocky structure. The boundaries were wavy, abrupt, and
gradual.

Section 3: Water Resources of Stockton

Stream water from Morses Mill, precipitation and groundwater are all inputs to the
watershed at Stockton. The outputs for this watershed is streamflow out, ground water out, and
evapotranspiration. Our water is stored in the ground (because it is groundwater) in the
Kirkwood Cohansey Aquifer. This aquifer is unconfined and is made of a local clay bed which
holds the water well. The Kirkwood Cohansey aquifer can reach a depth of anywhere between
20-350 feet.

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(Figure 8, a
Stocktons

map of the watershed on

campus including land use.)

(Table 1, a

table of Atlantic Citys

Evapotranspiration over a

year)

month
`
January
Februa
ry
March
April
May
June
July
August

PET
0.004
18
0.080
818
1.650
771
9.094
206
26.82
91
59.10
543
77.30
02
65.14

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Septe
mber
Octobe
r
Novem
ber
Decem
ber

889
36.11
085
13.09
623
3.378
324
0.244
039

(Figure 9, a map of the wetlands on and around Stocktons campus including types of wetlands.)

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