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2010 Southern Regional Cooperative Soil Survey Conference Agenda

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Monday, July 12, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010

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Monday, July 12, 2010

Moderator: Tom Hallmark

Time Activity Presenter(s)
9:00AM - 5:00PM Registration in the Lobby  
12:00PM - 1:00PM AV Download  
1:00PM - 1:10PM Introductions and General Comments Tom Hallmark
1:10PM - 1:20PM Welcome by NRCS Don Gohmert
1:20PM - 1:30PM Welcome by Texas AgriLife Mark Hussey
1:30PM - 1:45PM Video: A Legacy of Conservation – 75 Years of Helping People Help the Land (WMV) James Gordon
1:45PM - 2:15PM NCSS – New Opportunities (PDF; 1.4 MB) Micheal Golden
2:15PM - 2:45PM The Rapid Carbon Assessment Project (PDF; 4.0 MB) Ellis Benham
2:45PM - 3:15PM NRCS Interpretations of the U.S. Soil Survey Database – Priorities and New Directions (PDF; 879 KB) Maxine Levin
3:15PM - 3:45PM Break  
3:45PM - 4:15PM Providing New Soil Survey Products to the GIS Modeling Community – “National Atlas of Ecosystem Services Project” (PDF; 3.8 MB) Norman Bliss
4:15PM University Cooperator Group Meeting  
5:30PM - 6:30PM Reception / Mixer  


Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Moderator: James Gordon

Time Activity Presenter(s)
7:30AM - 2:00PM Registration in the Lobby  
7:30AM - 8:00AM Morning Refreshments / AV Download  
8:00AM - 8:10AM Daily Announcements James Gordon
8:10AM - 8:30AM Documenting Changes in Management – Sensitive Soil Properties in West Texas: Preliminary Results (PDF; 4.2 MB) Laurie Kiniry
8:30AM - 9:00AM A National Perspective on ESD Coordination and Implementation (PDF; 1.4 MB) Ron Williams
9:00AM - 9:30AM Ecological Sites and the National Cooperative Soil Survey (PDF; 2.0 MB) Joel Brown
9:30AM - 10:00AM Coordinating a Local ESD Development Effort (PPT; 8.5 MB) George Peacock
10:00AM - 10:30AM Break  
10:30AM - 10:50AM Overview of the Southern Region Soils Program of Work (PDF; 870 KB) Emanuel Hudson
10:50AM - 11:20AM Soil Interpretations and NASIS 6.0 (PDF; 10.0 MB) Gregg Scott and Wayne Gabriel
11:20AM - 11:40AM Overview of VNIR - Spectroscopy (PDF; 621 KB) Cristine Morgan
11:40PM - 1:30PM Lunch provided  
1:30PM - 3:00PM Committee Breakout Meetings  
3:00PM - 3:30PM Break
3:30PM - 4:30PM Committee Breakout Meetings


Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Time Activity
7:00AM - 7:30AM Morning Refreshments
7:30AM - 4:00PM Field Trip (PDF; 5.6 MB)
  • lunch included


Thursday, July 15, 2010

Moderator: Laurie Kiniry

Time Activity Presenter(s)
7:30AM - 8:00AM Morning Refreshments / AV Download  
8:00AM - 9:30AM Committee Breakouts – Finalize Reports  
9:30AM - 10:00AM Break  
10:00AM - 11:50AM Committee Reports  
10:00AM - 10:20AM ●  Standards and Taxonomy Committee Report (PDF; 1.1 MB)
    -- text (PDF; 190 KB)

●  Background documents
    -- Proposed revision to Part 627 of the NSSH (PDF; 44 KB)
    -- Rhodic subgroup revision (PDF; 92 KB)
    -- V horizon proposal (776 KB)

 Scott Anderson
10:20AM - 10:40AM ●  Subaqueous Soils Committee Report (PDF; 1.0 MB)
    -- text (PDF; 105 KB)		 Jerry Daigle
10:40AM - 11:10AM ●  Research Priorities Committee Report (PDF; 188 KB)
    -- text (PDF; 84 KB)		 Pam Thomas
11:10AM - 11:30AM ●  New Technologies Committee Report
    -- text (PDF; 56 KB)		 Edgar Mersiovsky
11:30AM - 11:50AM ●  Soil Interpretations Committee Report (PDF; 2.1 MB)
    -- text (PDF; 80 KB)		 Gregg Scott
11:50AM - 1:30PM Lunch on your own  
1:30PM - 2:00PM Cooperators Report (PDF; 34 KB) David Weindorf
2:00PM - 2:30PM Lower Mekong Initiative - Linkages Between Climate Change and Food (PDF; 6.9 MB) Maxine Levin
2:30PM - 3:00PM Closing Comments Maxine Levin, Tom Hallmark
3:00PM - 4:00PM Southern Regional Cooperative Soil Survey Conference Steering Committee Meeting  

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