Eight Annual Workshop of the Northeastern Soil Monitoring Cooperative

USGS New York Water Science Center, Troy, NY

March 11, 2014

Agenda

Morning Session. Recent Work on Measuring Soil Change

09:10 – 09:55 Bill Sharpe, Penn State University, retired – “Songbirds, snails and soils : Calcium limitations in acidified forest ecosystems in Pennsylvania"

09:55 – 10:25 Paul Hazlett, Canadian Forest Service – “Assessing the impacts of intensive biomass removals and wood ash applications in the boreal forest”

10:25 – 10:55 Greg Lawrence, U.S. Geological Survey – " Linkages between changes in aluminum cycling in soils and surface waters of the Buck Creek Watershed"

11:10 – 11:30 Chris Johnson, Syracuse University – “Variability involved with sampling by horizon vs. sampling by depth increment”

11:35 – 12:00 Richard Warby, Assumption College – “Testing storage effects on air-dried soil samples”

Afternoon Session. Ongoing Cooperative Tasks.

1:00 – 2:00 Work on the Interlaboratory Method Comparison/Reference Sample Manuscript Development – Led by Don Ross

2:00 – 3:00 Work on the Regional Soil Resampling Results – Led by Greg Lawrence

3:15 – 4:15 Work on the northeastern soil database – Led by Scott Bailey

4:15 – 4:40 Finding solutions to long-term soil archiving – Open discussion

4:40 – 5:00 Future funding strategies to build on current progress – Open discussion