Life Under Your Feet is a research project going on at
Johns Hopkins University. The project involves building, testing, and using Macroscopes. Macroscopes are a new type of scientific instrument in which a number of sensors work together to make measurements of the soil.
Sensors are connected to a box called a "mote," which looks like this:
We have three study areas around Maryland, and each study area has several motes. The study are (click on the name of each study area to go to a map of the area):