Miles Dyck is a professor of soil science in the Department of Renewable Resources, Faculty of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Alberta. While growing up on a farm near Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Dr. Dyck developed an intense curiosity about the origin of the soils landscapes around his home that was further developed through his university studies at the University of Saskatchewan (BSc in Environmental Earth Sciences; MSc in Soil Science) and the University of Alberta (PhD in Soil Physics