Soil Science Institute at KSU June 2011
The National Soil Survey Center sponsored the Soil Science Institute at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, June 6-24, 2011. The ...
Crop and Soil Sciences - Turfgrass Management
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New lecture series helps you dig the science of soils | News ...
CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new lecture series at Oregon State University will shed light on the wonders of soil hidden beneath our feet.
The Harward Endowed Lecture Series honors professor emeritus Moyle Harward, who joined the OSU faculty in 1955 and is best known for his studies of volcanic ash in Oregon’s soils.
Dutch scientist Alfred Hartemink will present the first Harward lecture, “The Joy of Looking at Soils,” on Monday, Jan. 30, beginning at 7 p.m. at LaSells Stewart Center on the OSU campus. The talk is free and open to the public.
Hartemink will explore the similarities between art and science, and tell the story of how these endeavors built on each other to begin the study of soils. A question and answer session will follow the lecture.
Hartemink is secretary general of the International Union of Soil Sciences and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has studied soils in Papua New Guinea and other landscapes throughout Africa and Australasia....
Bold Soil-Mapping Venture Seen as Crucial to Efforts on Climate ...
Bold Soil-Mapping Venture Seen as Crucial to Efforts on Climate, Agriculture
By PAUL VOOSEN (The New York Times, 7 August 2009)
Long left in the dust by their peers in climate research, a small group of soil scientists is spearheading an effort to apply rigorous computer analysis to the ground beneath our feet. Their goal: to produce a digital soil map of the entire world.
It is a daunting task. In many parts of the world, such as Africa and South Asia, knowledge of soil is sketchy at best, relying on fading paper maps. And without accurate soil information, it is difficult for planners to know where crops are best grown, or for climate modelers to predict how much carbon might be released from soil into the atmosphere.
“The scientific disciplines are crying for this information,” said Alfred Hartemink, the project’s coordinator and a soil scientist at ISRIC, a globally focused soil institute funded by the Dutch government.
Climate scientists, hydrologists, agronomists and ecologists all want to feed these data into their models, Hartemink said, so they can better address big questions: What happens if there’s drought in the Midwest? Or if huge swaths of land are given up for biofuels?
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