Seventh Annual Workshop of the Northeastern Soil Monitoring Cooperative

USGS New York Water Science Center, Troy, NY

March 21, 2013

Agenda

Morning Session. Recent Work on Measuring Soil Change

09:10 – 09:35 Doug Burns, U.S. Geological Survey – “More on Soil Hg in the Adirondacks"

09:35 – 10:00 Stephanie Connelly, U.S. Forest Service – “Monongahela National Forest: Soil Survey Updates in the Red Spruce Ecosystem - New Interpretations"

10:00 – 10:25 Chris Johnson, Syracuse University – "Soil chemical changes after watershed CaSiO₃ addition at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH"

10:25 – 10:40 Break

10:40 – 11:05 Greg Lawrence, U.S. Geological Survey – " Results from the U.S.- Canadian Soil Resampling Study"

11:05 – 11:30 Rock Ouimet, , ministère des Resources naturelles et de la Faune du Québec – “Assessing the efficiency in detecting long-term soil change with the RESEF (the Quebec Forest Ecosystem Study and Monitoring Network)”

11:30 – 11:55 Don Ross, University of Vermont – “The Vermont Long-Term Soil Monitoring Study ” LARGE FILE (20+ Mb)

Afternoon Session. New Soil Monitoring Efforts followed by Critical Loads Presentations and Ongoing Cooperative Activities.

1:00 – 01:25 Mike McHale, U.S. Geological Survey – “Some results from the soil monitoring component of the USGS Hydrologic Benchmark Network”

1:25 – 1:40 Jay Siemion, U.S. Geological Survey – Establishment of Long-Term Soil Monitoring in Long Island coastal Pine and Oak forests

1:40 – 1:50 Scott Bailey, U.S. Forest Service – New Long-Term Soil Monitoring Plots at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest 

1:50 – 2:10 Brian Godbois, University of New Hampshire – “A Distributed Sensor Network to Monitor Soil Response to Climate Change”

2:30 – 2:50 Linda Pardo, U.S. Forest Service – “Overview of FOCUS – Towards a National Program on Critical Loads”

2:50 – 3:10 Richard Warby, Assumption College – “Using Linkages Between Soil Solution Chemistry and Plant Physiological Response to Help Inform Critical Loads Calculations”

3:10 – 3:30 Critical Loads discussion

3:30 – 3:40 Greg Lampman, NYSERDA – overview of EMEP programs and projects and the evaluation of long-term environmental monitoring strategies for New York

3:40 – 4:00 Task Group Reports: 1) Soil Monitoring Review Paper –Lawrence; 2) Lab Methods Survey/Round-robin sample exchange – Ross; 3) Effects of sample storage – Lawrence; 4) Latest on the NERC Soil Database Development Project – Bailey; 5) Archiving procedures and establishment of the New York State Museum Soil Archive – Lawrence).

4:00 – 4:30 Starting a journal article on methods to address the chain of measurement uncertainty (Ross/Bailey)