Eleventh Workshop of the Northeastern Soil Monitoring Cooperative

USGS New York Water Science Center, Troy, NY

March 27, 2018

Agenda

09:00 – 09:10              Welcome, Introduction – Greg Lawrence, USGS

Morning Session.       Base Additions to Forest Soils and Other Things Related

09:10 – 09:40              Rock Ouimet, Direction de la Recherche Forestière, Ministère du Québec. – “20-year results of liming northern hardwoods to ameliorate acidification”

09:40 – 10:10              Paul Hazlett, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service. – “Update on wood ash applications to forest soils”

10:10 – 10:40              Stephanie Connolly, USFS. – “Large-scale forest liming underway in West Virginia”

11:00 – 11:30              Scott Bailey, USDA Forest Service. – “Thirty-two year retrospective of liming northern hardwoods on the Allegheny Plateau, PA: How long did it take the lime to dissolve and how long do the effects last?”

11:30 – 12:00              Andrei Lapenis, SUNY at Albany. – “Spring phenology—A newly identified ecophysiological role of the deciduous forest floor”

12:00 – 12:30              Greg Lawrence, USGS. – “Is there a connection between soil-calcium depletion and nitrogen saturation?” 

Afternoon Session.    More New and Ongoing Soil Monitoring Studies

1:20 – 1:50                  Olga Vargas, NRCS. – “Results of the Catskill Spodic Study”

1:50 – 2:20                  Matt Vadeboncoeur, Univ. of New Hampshire. – “An updated record of changing soil C in post-agricultural secondary forests at Bald Mountain, Campton NH 1980-2016”

2:20 – 2:50                  Don Ross, Univ. of Vermont. – “Latest results on the 200-year soil monitoring”

2:50 – 3:10                  Doug Burns, USGS – “Total mercury analysis in archived soil samples”

3:30 – 3:50                  Matt Vadeboncoeur, Univ. of New Hampshire. – “Investigating SOM dynamics following forest harvest using bulk-soil 14C”

3:50 – 4:05                  Josh Puhlick, Univ. of Maine. – “Assessing and monitoring the influence of forest management practices on soil productivity, carbon storage, and conservation in the Acadian Forest Region”

 4:05 – 4:15                 Olga Vargas, NRCS. – “National Cooperative Soil Survey -- Updates, Revisions and New forestry interpretations”

4:15 – 4:30                  Paul Hazlett, Canadian Forest Service. – Progress and plans on the second soil resampling paper.

4:30 – 5:00                  New Business – migrating the Coop soil database into ScienceBase? and other odds and ends