Exercise 11 - Technical Soil Services Management
Add Entries to Excel Template
Use the template excel spreadsheet in Microsoft Teams to fill out these hypothetical Technical Soil Services (TSS) activities as you would in NASIS.
You are requested to assist the area office with wetland delineations while the RSS is out for medical leave for the month of August. During the 4 weeks there are 2 teleconferences with the SSS and ARSS on Monday 8/1/22 and 8/15/22 from 8am-10am to discuss workload and specific requests. There were 2-30 minute phone calls discussing a wetland delineation requested by the SSS, completed on 8/12/22 in Hubbard County MN(1 hour drive away) that took 3 hours to complete in the field along with proper documentation in the office. There was another wetland delineation completed in Hubbard County MN requested by the SSS on 8/24/22 that was 1.5 hour drive to get to and took 4 hours to complete for field and office time.
You are asked to assist with an environmental education week at a local grade school about soils to instruct 30 children. This will be both indoor classroom activity along with a set of outdoor activities later in the week. There were 2 teleconferences with the teacher in April(4th and 15th) to discuss logistics and timetables(2 hours for each meeting). You spent approximately 15 hours over 5 days developing your lecture and activities from April 4th till the 29th . The lecture occurred Monday May 2nd at 9:00-10:00am, you spent 6 hours traveling to the school, lecturing and assisting the teacher with Q&A. On May 5th you returned to the school and participated in outdoor activities with the children and 6 escorts(assisting parents) which took the entire 8 hour day with travel, discussion, setup and breakdown of equipment.
NASIS User Guide
Chapter 22: Technical Soil Services Reporting
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Add the .xlsx file to your submission folder to complete the exercise.
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