Updated Bye Laws for BSSS
14th September 2016
The Bye Laws for the British Society of Soil Science have been recently updated after the Board of Trustees reviewed them.
They can be found here
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10 BASIS Points available for 2016 Annual Meeting
24th August 2016
CPD Credits available for those registered with BASIS
BASIS has today confirmed 10 credits will be awarded for attending the two day 2016 Annual Meeting "Soil, Security and Society" at the University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire United Kingdom on the 7th and 8th September 2016.
The credits are as follows - 2 Crop protection, 6 Environment and 2 Personal Development.
Researchers image roots in the ground
24th August 2016
It's a familiar hazard of vacation time: While you're conspicuously absent, your colleagues in the office forget to water and fertilize the plants -- often leaving behind nothing but a brownish skeleton.
Whether a plant thrives or wastes away depends above all on whether its roots get enough water and nutrients. Geophysicists have now visualized such processes for the first time using electrical impedance tomography.
New Book on Managing Agricultural Landscapes of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers
16th August 2016
An Iowa State University faculty member has co-authored a book on the subject examining the complex and ever-changing Mississippi and Ohio rivers’ landscapes.
Evidence from China shows how plants colonized the land
10th August 2016
New fossil finds from China push back the origins of deep soils by 20 million years, new research has uncovered. This is a key part of the stepwise conquest of the land and transformation of the continents, researchers have discovered.