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, IntroductionGreg 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