Smear It and See

How one survey crew learns to call a black fleck charcoal

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions shadows one regional soil survey crew of eleven through a nine-week mapping season, coding 327 occasions on which a black fleck in the auger was examined and called. Every surveyor smears the fleck and none recalls being taught to; whether the smear goes on the thumbnail or the margin of the description card follows who each surveyor first augered beside, and only the card-margin lineage leaves its evidence in the archive.

@misc{slop_jcprgk,
  author       = {Brynjar Obiora and Ragnhild Uzoma},
  title        = {Smear It and See: How one survey crew learns to call a black fleck charcoal},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.jcprgk},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-how-soil-surveyors-jcprgk/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}