Digital Soil Mapping Workgroup (S5, SSSA) - Agenda for Business Meeting
Grunwald,Sabine
Dear all
Below find the tentative agenda for the business meeting of the Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) Workgroup (S5, SSSA) at the ASA-CSSA-SSSA Meeting in Cincinnati. Please join the business meeting – there are interesting and invigorating activities related to DSM that will be discussed. If you like to add an agenda item please let me know. Also plan to attend the Special Topic sessions organized by the DSM Workgroup at the ASA-CSSA-SSSA Meeting in Cincinnati:
New Challenges for Digital Soil Mapping: I (Oral session)
Monday, October 22, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:50 AM
Duke Energy Convention Center, Room 252, Level 2
http://scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2012am/webprogram/Session9998.html
New Challenges for Digital Soil Mapping: I (Poster session)
Monday, October 22, 2012: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Duke Energy Convention Center, Exhibit Hall AB, Level 1
http://scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2012am/webprogram/Session10007.html
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Tentative Agenda - Business Meeting
Digital Soil Mapping Workgroup (Div. S5, SSSA)
Tuesday, October 23, 2012, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Millennium Hotel, Pavillion A, Second Floor
Reports / Past Year’s Activities
- Global Soil Map.net (North American Node)
2. Rapid Soil Carbon Assessment Project (U.S.)
- MOU to strengthen national DSM: NRCS and several U.S. Universities
- Pilot project – digital soil survey of the Arrowhead Counties in far NE Minnesota (NRCS; scientific advisory team)
- Linkages to Global Digital Soil Map Community (ASA)
- Update on DSM intercomparison project (U.S.)
Proposed Activities
- Next steps DSM intercomparison project (U.S.)
- Soil carbon crowd sourcing
- Ideas for session(s) – SSSA 2013 Meeting
4. New Chair DSM Workgroup
Information - Future meetings (DSM):
Pedometrics Conference, Nairobi, Kenya (Aug. 26-30, 2013)
https://sites.google.com/a/cgxchange.org/pedometrics2013/ (abstract deadline: Dec. 15, 2012)
Global Digital Soil Mapping Workshop, Nanjing, China (2014)
Join the DSM Workgroup:
Contact Sabine Grunwald (sab...@ufl.edu)
Communication tool – DSM Workgroup: DSM-workg...@googlegroups.com
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Best regards,
Sabine
(Current Chair of DSM Workgroup)
Sabine Grunwald | Professor | Soil and Water Science Department | University of Florida | 2169 McCarty Hall | PO Box 110290 | 32611 Gainesville FL | Email: sab...@ufl.edu | Phone: 352-392-1951 x204 | Skype UN: sabgru | http://soils.ifas.ufl.edu/faculty/grunwald | http://ecolearnit.ifas.ufl.edu