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.” Her team includes a researcher, whose job includes online searches to find experts on a wide range of topics. This task starts with keyword searches under relevant topics . Once the researcher has pulled together a list of possible service providers, the list can be shortened by looking at a few criteria, such as:

Articles that the purported expert has published The expert’s previous speaking engagements How often the person has been quoted in the news media How many relevant courses they have taught

Note one vital aspect of Janet’s methodology in determining who gets onto that short list: It’s not just about generating good content and posting it on your organization’s own website. Content needs to pass the hurdle of third-party credibility — it needs to meet the standards of a business or professional website editor, a conference organizer, the online editor of a professional association, or other gatekeeper.

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The paradigm and models of traditional soil science lack the ability to adequately address issues of soil dynamics, environmental integration, and change. Unexplainable research results obtained from traditional soil studies applied to non-traditional soil phenomena in physical geography, archaeology and ecology speak to the current need for soil science to move beyond description and classification and into a dynamic process-oriented soil science capable of providing explanations. Soils do not behave as static inert geologic detritus affected by climate, organisms, relief, and parent material through time, but instead soils behave as self-organizing systems dynamically interrelating with their environment. Recognition of this dynamic behaviour required a re-examination of how scientists in general think and in how modern soil science specifically evolved its basic paradigms and models. This book examines the dynamics of soil organic carbon and demonstrates the self-organizing nature of soil through time as soil responds to a wide range of environmental and human perturbations....

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From its humble beginning in the late 19th century―when Henry Ford’s first car was designed to run on ethanol―biofuel production has been on the rise with more than 26 billion liters produced in the U.S. in 2007. Ethanol made from biomass (rather than grains) holds great promise, including numerous economic and environmental benefits. However, the adverse interactions of energy, climate, food, and soil quality cannot be ignored. In eight concise chapters, Soil Quality and Biofuel Production presents a state-of-the-knowledge review of soil properties and processes negatively impacted by crop residue removal. It outlines the ecological consequences of biofuels and evaluates land use in the production of raw material for biofuel. The book then spotlights pressing issues related to corn and cellulosic ethanol and also soil erosion. It offers advice for achieving economic balance in the competition for arable land between food and biofuel along with residue harvest management...

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