Ninth Annual Workshop of the Northeastern Soil Monitoring Cooperative

USGS New York Water Science Center, Troy, NY

March 26, 2015

 

Agenda

 

Morning Session.       Discussions on Ongoing and New Cooperative Tasks

 

09:10 – 09:15              Publication of the paper on our interlaboratory reference sample exchange. – Led by Don Ross, UVM 

 

09:15 – 10:00              Developing a recommended protocol for archiving soil, Phase 1 of a three phase process. – Led by Scott Bailey, USDA Forest Service, and Don Ross, University of Vermont

 

10:00 – 10:30              Developing a plan for expanding our database to include an inventory of archivable samples plus some discussion of Phase 3, establishing an archive network. – Led by Scott Bailey, USDA Forest Service

 

11:10 – 12:15              Overview of results from the soil resampling project as a lead in to the planning of new papers such as (1) a paper on effects of storing air-dried samples, (2) a second paper on results from the resampling project (plus new results?), (3) a paper on soil recovery processes and how they relate to surface water recovery, and (4) other ideas?  Perhaps seek NSRC funding for some or all of this work? – Led by Greg Lawrence, USGS

 

Afternoon Session.    Presentations on Research Results and New Programs.

 

1:15 – 1:45                  Paul Hazlett, Canadian Forest Service – “Bioenergy wood ash waste as a forest soil amendment: possibilities and pitfalls”.

 

1:45 – 2:15                  Bill Cannon, USGS, retired – “Anthropogenic alteration of soils of the northeastern U.S. viewed from a national perspective" (not available for distribution).

 

2:15 – 2:30                  Kevin Keys, Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources  – “Overview of the New Soil Monitoring Program in Nova Scotia”.

 

2:30 – 3:00                  Jay Siemion, USGS  – “Resampling Results from the USGS Hydrologic Benchmark Watersheds”.

 

3:15 – 3:45                  Andrei Lapenas, SUNY at Albany  – “Relationships between NDVI and soil in the Adirondacks”

 

3:45 – 4:05                  Mike Antidormi, SUNY Albany/USGS  – “Resampling Results from the South Tributary of Buck Creek, Western Adirondacks”

 

4:05 – 4:20                  Steve Parisio, NYS DEC – “The Catskill Environmental Research & Monitoring Initiative (CERM)”

 

4:20 – 4:50                  Scott Bailey, USDA Forest Service – "Scales of spatial variation in upper B horizon chemistry in northern hardwood forests" (not available for distribution).