Fifth Workshop of the Northeastern Soil Monitoring Cooperative

USGS New York Water Science Center, Troy, NY

March 8, 2011

 

Agenda

 

March 8th

 

09:00 – 09:10              Welcome, Introduction

 

Morning Session.       Presentations Related to Long-Term Soil Change

 

09:10 – 09:55              Daniel Richter, Duke University  –  " The Changing Model of Soil: The Key Role for Long-Term Soil-Ecosystem Experiments "

 

09:55 – 10:40              Richard Hallet, USDA Forest Service  – "Assessment of regional forest health and stream and soil chemistry using a multi-scale approach and new methods of remote sensing interpretation in the Catskill mountains of New York"  [LARGE FILE—40Mb]

10:40 – 11:00              Break

 

11:00 – 11:45              Paul Hazlett, Canadian Forest Service – "Some experiences resampling and reanalyzing soils from old plots at the Turkey Lake Watershed"

 

11:45 – 12:30  Lunch on site.

 

Afternoon Session.    More talks on investigations of soil change, information on new projects and task group reports

 

12:30 – 02:30              Declining carbon allocation to wood in spruce tied to climate warming and soil nutrients – Andrei Lapenas, SUNY Albany

 

Using Equal-Area Quadratic Splines to Compute Depth-Weighted Averages of Soil Chemical Parameters– Jeremy Tamargo, Syracuse University

 

Establishing a Soil Chemical Baseline for the Catskills– Christopher Johnson, Syracuse University

 

Etiology of white spruce decline – Rock Ouimet, Quebec Ministry of Natural Resources and Wildlife

 

Soil Hg investigations in the central Adirondacks – Douglas Burns, USGS

 

2:30 – 3:00                  Break

 

3:00 – 5:15                  Influence of soil calcium on forest floor communities in the Adirondacks: initial results and ongoing work – Colin Beier, SUNY ESF

 

                                    Update on the NERC (Northeastern Research Cooperative ) Project on Soil Resampling in the Northeastern US and Eastern Canada (Hazlett, Bailey, Ouimet and Lawrence)

 

Update on the NERC Soil Database Development Project and NYS Museum Archiving (Bailey and Lawrence)

 

Greg Lampman on the upcoming NYSERDA request for proposals on evaluation of long-term environmental monitoring strategies for New York

 

Report on the NYSERDA Adirondack Sugar Maple Project (Lawrence/Bailey)

 

                                    Report from Lawrence on the NPS Appalachian Mega-Transect

 

                                    Update from Rachel Riemann on data opportunities available through FIA modeling and other data advancements

 

                                    Other new projects to introduce?

 

Task Group Reports (Soil Monitoring Review Paper Lawrence;

Lab Methods Survey/Round-robin sample exchange- Ross, Bailey;

Effects of sample storage-Lawrence;

Archiving procedures and establishment of the New York State Museum Soil Archive -Lawrence).

 

                                    Summary and discussion of interactions with other developing soil networks (led by Lawrence)

 

                                    Planning for the next meeting

 

5:15 - 5:30                  Closing comments and adjourn