Bio: Travis graduated Texas A&M University in 2003 with a B.S. in Agronomy and Rangeland Ecology and Management. He continued his education receiving his Master of Science in Soil Science from Texas A&M University in May 2006. He started as a Soil Scientist with the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) in January 2005 and has worked throughout Texas sampling and describing soils and spent time in Oklahoma and Louisiana on detail work. Travis moved to Kerrville from College Station in July 2010 where he now serves as the Edwards Plateau and Central Basin Soil Survey Leader for NRCS. His office covers over 26 million acres of Central and West Texas.Synopsis: In 2022, the Natural Resource Conservation Service began sampling soils in San Antonio and Bexar County, Texas to measure soil organic carbon. This project was started in conjunction with the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance and the City of San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department. Travis Waiser will cover the sampling technique, where samples were taken, and summarize the data collected from the project. At the end of the talk Travis will cover some management strategies that can be implemented to build soil carbon in your soils.
The Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance Presents 2026 Water Wonks Hour Lecture Series #1 with Travis Waiser, Soil Survey Leader
January 28 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
2026 Water Wonks Hour Lecture Series #1: Soil carbon analysis process, the USDA 2022 soil carbon survey, working with urban areas and the San Antonio baseline soil carbon data – where do we go from here?
Speaker: Travis Waiser MLRA (Major Land Resource Area) Soil Survey Leader at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
