Tenth Annual Workshop of
the Northeastern Soil Monitoring Cooperative
USGS New York Water
Science Center, Troy, NY
March 22, 2016
Agenda
09:00 –
09:15
Welcome,
Introduction – Greg Lawrence, USGS
Morning
Session. Presentations
of
Research Results
09:15
– 09:45
Olivia Bartlett, University of New Hampshire. – “Soil Monitoring Results in
White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire”
09:45 – 10:15
Chris Johnson, Syracuse University. – “Hubbard Brook Soil Carbon
and Nitrogen Changes”
10:15 – 10:35
Mike McHale, USGS – “The
Response of Soil and Stream Chemistry to Decreases in Acid
Deposition in the Catskill Mountains, New York, USA”.
10:35 – 10:55
Break
10:55 – 11:15
Jay Siemion, USGS – “Relationships
Between Soil Changes and Stream Trends at Northeastern
Hydrologic Benchmark Sites"
11:15 – 11:45
Andrei Lapenis, SUNY at Albany. – “Sensitivity
to Warming of New England Deciduous Forests controlled by
Turnover Time of the Forest Floor”
12:40 – 1:00
Presentation of the Spodosol Cake to Celebrate our 10th
Anniversary
Afternoon Session. Discussions
on Current and New Cooperative Tasks
1:00 – 1:10
Greg Lawrence, USGS, Initiatives from the 2015
Workshop
1:10 – 1:30
Thom Villars, NRCS – “Mt Mansfield Soil Variability"
1:30 – 3:00
Paper for
Journal of Visualized Experiments on soil resampling methods
– manuscript editing discussion and planning for the field video
3:00 – 3:20
Break
3:20 – 4:10
Planning for
a manuscript on effects of
air-dried sample storage (USGS data presented by Mike Antidormi)
4:10 – 4:25
Discussion of
the unfunded NSRC proposal, a strategy to move forward?
4:25 – 4:55
Other ongoing tasks
and ideas for new
initiatives
1. second
paper
on regional soil resampling;
2. archiving
initiative
with ISCN;
3. filling
the
database
4. status
of
the soil reference sample laboratory exchange
5. Soil
monitoring
in terms of temperature and moisture