Second Workshop of the Northeastern Soil Monitoring Network

 

USGS New York Water Science Center, Troy, NY

March 12-13, 2008

 

Sponsored by New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)

 

Agenda

 

Morning Session.       Presentations of soil resampling studies

 

09:10 – 09:55              Andrei Lapenis, SUNY at Albany - Resampling Studies in Russia: Following in the Footsteps of Dokuchaev

 

09:55 – 10:40              Chris Johnson, Syracuse University – You Can Never Have Too Much Data – Lessons from Soil Resampling at Hubbard Brook.

 

10:40 – 11:00              Break

 

11:00 – 11:45              Michael Pennino, Brown University, and Matt Vadeboncoeur, University of New Hampshire –  Progress in Soil Monitoring at Brown University

           

Afternoon Session.  Revisit topics from the last workshop, plus new issues

 

12:30 – 04:30              Methods of measuring change, include with the review paper

instead of a separate recommendation report?

 

                                    Task Group Reports (Lab Methods Survey, Round-robin sample exchange, effects of sample storage, Archiving procedures).


Greg Lawrence - Reanalyzing Old Samples

 
 Topics of growing interest such as changes in soil carbon (Interagency Soil Carbon Network), other program or network affiliations, modeling changes in base saturation to predict recovery from acid rain (other topics?), are there roles for the cooperative here?

                                   

                                    Mark Watson - Overview of NYSERDA Soil-Related Research Activities


Rock Ouimette - Sampling by Depth or Genetic Horizon?


                                    Pete Murdoch - Mission of the Delaware Basin Collaborative Environmental Monitoring and Research Initiative (CEMRI)

 

 4:30 – 5:30                 Does the cooperative need a specific long-term objective to work towards, such as a map of soil change for the northeast?

 

 

March 13th

 

 

Morning Session        More on the concept of a long-term objective, plus administration and funding.

 

08:30 – 12:00              Continue discussion of a long-term objective to provide direction beyond the general mission statement

 

We have identified 2 cooperative activities that would require funds, such as developing an inventory of past, existing or planned plots/studies and running a website.  Are there ideas for other activities that need funding?  Discuss how these activities would be defined and implemented, then develop a plan to acquire funds.  NSRC deadline is March 21st.

 

                                    Can we establish some type of charter?