Associate Professor — Graduate Program Coordinator
Certified Professional Soil Scientist (CPSS)
Certified Professional Soil Classifier (CPSC)
mkonen@niu.edu voice 815-753-6849 fax 815-753-6872
Soil Analysis Laboratory - Services and contact information
Landscape Evolution and Soil Geomorphology
Relict periglacial phenomena in the northcentral United States
Soil-geomorphic relationships in glaciated landscapes
Human impacts on soils and geomorphic processes
Post-settlement erosion-sedimentation
Postglacial landscape evolution
Paleopedology and Quaternary stratigraphy
Quaternary sediment mapping in northern Illinois
Hydric soil morphology and indicators
Ice-walled lake plains and NE IL deglaciation
Soil Quality, Soil 
Organic Carbon, Land Use, Hydric Soils
Field, laboratory, & remote sensing measurements of soil color
Soil carbon sequestration in native, restored, and agricultural systems
Hillslope and watershed scale soil carbon dynamics
Aggregate stability - organic carbon relationships
Land use impacts on soil morphology, physical properties, and soil carbon stocks
Hydric soil - water table - landscape relationships
Geog 101 - Survey of Physical Geography
Geog 302 - Soil Science
Geog 402/502 - Pedology (Soil morphology, genesis, and geomorphology)
Geog 403/503 - Soil Geography and Land Use Planning
Geog 404 - Soil Profile Description and Interpretation
Geog 465/665 - Field Methods
Geol 477 - Field Methods in Environmental Geosciences (w/Jay Stravers & Melissa Lenczewski)
ITS link to obtain your NIU z-number (logon-id)
National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS)
National Soil Survey Center (NSSC)
Field Book for Describing and Sampling
Soils
Geospatial Data Gateway
Hydric Soil List
Keys to Soil Taxonomy
National Soil Survey Handbook
Official Soil Series Descriptions
Online County Soil Surveys
Soil Data Mart
Soil GeographySoil Quality Assessment
Soil Survey Laboratory Methods Manual
Soil Survey Manual
Soil Taxonomy (2nd edition)
SSURGO (Digital soil data by county)
STATSGO (Digital soil data by state)
National Resources Inventory Analysis (NRI)
National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)
Natural Resource Conservation Service
(USDA, NRCS)
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
American Geological Institute (AGI)
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
American Quaternary Association (AMQUA)
Association of American Geographers (AAG)
Association of Women Soil Scientists
British Society of Soil Science
Friends of the Pleistocene (FOP)
Geological Society of America (GSA)
Quaternary Geol. and Geomorphology Division
Illinois Soil Classifiers Association (ISCA)
International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA)
International Union of Soil Sciences
National Assoc. of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT)
National Soc. of Consulting Soil Scientists (NSCSS)
Quaternary Research Association (QRA)
Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS)
Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS)
Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)
Council of Soil Science Examiners (CSSE)
U. S. Consortium of Soil Science Assoc. (USCSSA)
Color Landform Atlas of the United States
Mars Global Surveyor
(Polygonal patterned ground!)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
NIU Department of Anthropology
The Ohio State Univ. School of Env & Nat. Resources
Iowa State University Department of Agronomy
NIU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
NIU Information Technology Services (ITS)
Geog 102 - Survey of Physical Geography Laboratory
Geog 253 - Environment and Society
Geog 303 - Water Resources and the Environment
Geog 322 - Geog. of World Plant Com
munities
Geog 413/513 - Forest Ecology
Geog 422/522 - Plant-Soil Interactions
Geog / Geol 442x/542x - Geomorphology
Geog / Geol 492x/592x - Hydrology
Additional courses in the Department of Geography
Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources (IDNR)
Illinois Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS)
Illinois Nat. Res.Cons.Service (ILL-NRCS)
Illinois State Water Survey (IS
WS)
Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS)
Kane-DuPage Soil & Water Conservation District
DeKalb County Soil & Water Conservation District
Wisconsin Geol. and Natural History Survey
Agriculture, Ecosystems, & Environment
Annals of the Assoc. of American Geographers
Biuletyn Peryglacjalny
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
Comm. in Soil Science and Plant Analysis
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
European Journal of Soil Science
Geological Society of America Bulletin
Journal of Environmental Quality
Journal of Geoscience Education
Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science
Journal of Nat. Resources and Life Sciences Ed.
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Journal of Quaternary Science (JQS)
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Pala eoecology
Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
Progress in Physical Geography
Soil Science Society of America Journal (SSSAJ)
Transactions of the Illinois Academy of Science
Dr. Mike Konen
Northern Illinois University
Department of Geography
212 Davis Hall
DeKalb, IL 60115
mkonen@niu.edu
voice 815-753-6849
fax 815-753-6872
