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Northeast Regional Cooperative Soil Survey Conference Agenda

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Sunday, May 21, 2006

Time Activity
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Registration

Monday, May 22, 2006

Time Activity
8:30 am - 12:00 pm Registration
9:30 am to 12:00 pm - Opening Session
Moderator: Bruce Thompson
Time Activity Presenter
9:30 am - 10:00 am Welcome and Opening Remarks Anthony J. Kramer, State Conservationist, NRCS, New Jersey; David Specca, Director, Rutgers EcoComplex; Frank Minch, NJ State Soil Conservation Committee; Linda Greene, PAS, NSSC - Web Soil Survey
10:00 am - 10:30 am Adobe Acrobat documentNational Soil Survey Center Report (81 KB) Dr. David Hammer, National Leader, Soil Survey Investigations
10:30 am - 10:45 am BREAK  
10:45 am - 11:15 am Adobe Acrobat documentThe Hydrogeomorphic Approach to Functional Assessment for Piedmont Slope Wetlands (505 KB)
Adobe Acrobat documentText (81 KB)		 Dr. Bruce Vasilas, Professor, University of Delaware
11:15 am - 12:00 pm Adobe Acrobat documentPenn State University Research (9.3 MB) Dr. Henry Lin, Penn State University
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm LUNCH  
1:00 pm to 5:30 pm - General Session
Moderator: Lenore Vasilas
Time Activity Presenter
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm Adobe Acrobat documentSoil Management (53 KB)
Adobe Acrobat documentSoil Resource and Terrestrial Ecological Unit Inventories (93 KB)		 Randy Davis, FS
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm Committee Breakout Sessions
1.  Standards and Procedures
2.  Subaqueous Soils		 Committee Chairs
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm BREAK  
3:15 pm - 5:00 pm Committee Breakout Sessions
1.  New Technology
2.  Hydric Soils
3.  By-Laws (if needed)		 Committee Chairs
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Hospitality Room at the Ramada Inn NJ NRCS-NJAPSS
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Research Needs Committee in EcoComplex Committee Chair

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Time Activity Presenter
7:30 am - 12:00 pm Registration at EcoComplex  
8:00 am - 10:00 am Committee meetings continue
1.  Standards and Procedures
2.  Subaqueous Soils
3.  New Technology		 Committee Chairs
10:00 am - 10:14 am BREAK  
10:15 am to 12:00 pm - General Session
Moderator: Leander Brown
Time Activity Presenter
10:15 am - 10:50 am Microsoft Powerpoint documentSynthetic Iron Oxides: An Indicator of Reduction in Soils (IRIS) (4.2 MB)
Adobe Acrobat documentText (26 KB)		 Dr. Martin C. Rabenhorst, UMD
10:50 am - 11:20 am Adobe Acrobat documentEffects of Coastal Urbanization: Hydrology and Soil Morphology (760 KB)
Adobe Acrobat documentwith notes (479 KB)
Adobe Acrobat documentProcess-Based and Landscape-Level Measures of Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration and Fluxes in Southern New England Forests (1.8 MB)
Adobe Acrobat documentwith notes (1 MB)		 Dr. Mark Stolt, URI
11:20 am - 12:00 pm Adobe Acrobat documentSoil Fertility Research with Corn Grown on Northeast USA Soils (794 KB)
Adobe Acrobat documentSoil Properties and Land Use in New Jersey: NRCS-NJ sponsored research at Rutgers (2.9 MB)		 Dr. Joseph Heckman and Dr. Stephanie Murphy, Rutgers Extension
12:00 pm - 12:50 pm LUNCH  
12:50 pm to 5:30 pm - General Session
Moderator: TBA
Time Activity Presenter
12:50 pm - 1:20 pm Adobe Acrobat documentHyperspectral Sensing of Soil Properties for Soil Survey (976 KB) Dr. Steve DeGloria, Cornell
1:20 pm - 1:45 pm Adobe Acrobat documentWest Virginia University Research (5.4 MB)
Adobe Acrobat documentText (1.4 MB)		 Dr. James A. Thompson, WVU
1:45 pm - 2:10 pm University of Maine Research
Subaqueous Soils; Soil-Landscape Relationships and C Storage		 Dr. Laurie Osher, UM
2:35 pm - 3:00 pm Adobe Acrobat documentVirginia Tech University Research (2.4 MB) Dr. John M. Galbraith, VT
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm BREAK  
3:15 pm - 3:40 pm Adobe Acrobat documentThe National Picture (638 KB) Micheal Golden, Director, Soil Survey Division
3:40 pm - 5:00 pm Committee meetings continue
1.  Hydric Soils
2.  Research Needs
3.  Others, if needed		 Committee Chairs
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Research Needs Committee Committee Chair
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Hospitality Room at the Ramada Inn NJ NRCS-NJAPSS

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Time Activity
8:00 am - 6:00 pm Field Trip
Cross-section of the NJ Inner and Outer Coastal Plain

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Time Activity Presenter
7:30 am - 12:00 pm Registration at EcoComplex  
8:00 am - 9:00 am NEC-50 Breakout
Adobe Acrobat documentNRCS Breakout (21 KB)		  
9:00 am - 10:00 am Committee Breakouts to prepare reports  
9:00 am - 10:00 am MO Leader / State Soil Scientist MO Leaders
10:00 am to 11:55 am - General Session
Moderator: Steven Indrick
Time Activity Presenter
10:00 am - 10:30 am Adobe Acrobat documentUrban Soil Surveys (2.2 MB)
Adobe Acrobat documentText (67 KB)		 Dr. Richard Shaw, SSPL, NRCS-NY
10:30 am - 10:45 am Adobe Acrobat documentMO-12 Report (28 KB) Bruce Thompson, MO Leader
10:45 am - 11:00 am Adobe Acrobat documentMO-13 Report (1.5 MB)
Adobe Acrobat documentText (33 KB)		 Steve Carpenter, MO Leader
11:00 am - 11:15 am Adobe Acrobat documentMO-14 Report (380 KB)
Adobe Acrobat documentText (30 KB)		 John Kelley, Soil Data Quality Specialist
11:15 am - 11:35 am Research Needs Committee Report Chair
11:35 am - 11:55 am Adobe Acrobat documentHydric Soils Committee Report (9 KB)
Adobe Acrobat documentText (41 KB)		 Chair
11:55 am - 1:00 pm LUNCH  
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm - General Session
Moderator: Stephanie Murphy
Time Activity Presenter
1:00 pm - 1:20 pm Adobe Acrobat documentStandards and Procedures Committee Report (37 KB) Chair
1:20 pm - 2:40 pm Adobe Acrobat documentSubaqueous Soils Committee Report (11 KB)
Adobe Acrobat documentText (28 KB)		 Chair
2:40 pm - 3:00 pm Adobe Acrobat documentNew Technology Committee Report (123 KB)
Adobe Acrobat documentText (3 MB)		 Chair
3:00 pm - 3:20 pm Adobe Acrobat documentBy-Laws Committee Report (80 KB) Chair
3:20 pm - 4:30 pm NENCSS Business Meeting Ronnie L. Taylor and NENCSS Steering Team
4:30 pm ADJOURN  

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