For full details of forthcoming soils-related meetings, please see your most recent copy of the BSSS Newsletter
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Free Public Lecture Series, Spring 2010
Soil – a basis for life on earth
Birkbeck Institute of Environment, University of London
and
Ecology and Conservation Studies Society
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Climate, Water & Soil: Science, Policy and Practice
31 March-1 April 2010, Edinburgh
Joint SAC/SEPA Biennial Conference - Agriculture and the Environment VIII
in association with
Macaulay Institute, SCRI and Forest Research
A REMINDER that the deadline for submission of abstracts and poster titles is Friday, 10 July 2009.
This multi-disciplinary conference will address our current understanding of the management of climate, water and soils in a rapidly changing policy, economic and natural environment. The conference will concentrate on how global changes affect issues at national, landscape and local scales. It will present not only the best possible science and research knowledge but also provide a forum to raise and discuss ways in which policy needs to be adapted to meet future challenges and how management at landscape and local scales can be identified, prioritised and delivered in the context of multiple drivers. Land management will be a cross-cutting theme of the Conference. The conference will be opened by Campbell Gemmell (Chief Executive, SEPA) and the opening address provided by Richard Lochhead MSP.
Papers and posters are invited under Themes 1-3:
Theme 1: Climate, Water and Soil: Addressing the Challenge
Theme 2: Managing the Challenge at a Landscape Scale
Theme 3: Managing the Challenge at a Local Scale
Theme 4: Rising to the Challenge.
Please contact Karen Crighton (karen.crighton@sac.co.uk) or Rebecca Audsley (rebecca.audsley@sepa.org.uk) for further details or the conference website www.sac.ac.uk/sacsepaconf.
Global Change and the World's Mountains
26-30 September 2010
Perth, Scotland
Theme 11: Mountain Soils
Organiser: Willie Towers, Macaulay Institute.
http://www.perth.ac.uk/specialistcentres/cms/Conferences/Perth2010/Pages/default.aspx
Soil Physics Symposia – World Congress of Soil Science 2010, Brisbane, Australia
Information on the two Soil Physics (Commission 2.1) symposia to be held at the 2010 World Congress of Soil Science is provided below. These symposia tackle important current issues of limited water, climate change and soil pore structure dynamics. We hope that you are able to participate by providing a novel and exciting contribution. The call for abstracts is now open and the deadline is 31 October 2009. Guidelines and online submission can be found at: http://www.ccm.com.au/soil/submit-your-abstract-here.html
2.1.1 Optimizing water use with soil physics
Convenor: Laj Ahuja (USA)
Co-Convenor: Freeman Cook (Australia)
Keynote speaker: Brent Clothier (HortResearch, NZ)
There is a global thirst for knowledge on how to overcome the threats posed by increasingly limited water available. This limited freshwater resource is required to produce even more food without depleting freshwater reserves for other human and ecosystem uses. Soil physics can play a major role in finding ways to conserve and make the most efficient use of water for crop production to support our growing population, maintain its quality and preserve the natural ecosystems, and address projected effects of climate change on water. This session will focus on recent advances in understanding and modelling: 1) the infiltration and retention of rainwater water in soil and the management practices that enhance these; 2) the old questions of when to apply irrigation water and how much to apply for optimal crop performance; 3) associated optimal applications of N and other nutrients; and 3) alternate more efficient cropping and management scenarios for current and future climate change conditions. Specific interest will be placed on novel solutions to harness and preserve water in soil. Recent advances in modelling of evapo-transpiration and solutes from the pore to larger scales, and their implications to water scarcity, are also of major interest.
2.1.2 The physics of soil pore structure dynamics
Convenor: Paul Hallett (UK)
Co-Convenor: Cameron Grant (Australia)
Keynote speaker: Shmuel Assouline (Volcani Center, Israel)
One of the greatest challenges in describing soil physical processes is the continuously changing pore structure that regulates flow and transport. Shrinking and swelling through cycles of wetting and drying, instabilities like slumping and slaking and external stresses from vehicles and overburden can all alter pore structure considerably over time. Coupled hydrological and mechanical models have been developed to account for the deformation of the pore matrix. This work is complemented by fundamental studies on the underlying physical processes that drive changes in pore structure at multiple scales. Some of this work even tackles the thermodynamics of pore structure evolution. This session focuses on the physical processes that drive pore structure dynamics and the impacts on flow and transport properties.
Soil Science in a changing world
Wageningen
18-21 September 2011
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