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Past S-7 Headlines - 2007

2008

12/11/2007
Conference announcement - Mountain soils under a changing climate and land-use - March 6-8, 2008 - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research - Zurich, Switzerland

12/10/2007
Workshop announcement - The scientific foundation for sustainable forest biomass harvesting guidelines and policy - February 18-21, 2008 - Toronto, Ontario

12/5/2007
Congratulations to all of those awarded with the honor of "Best Paper of Session" from the 2007 SSSA Annual Meetings!


11/19/2007
2008 S-7 chair, Dan Markewitz, requests your ideas for symposia for the 2008 joint meeting between the SSSA, the Geological Society of America and the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies.  Please review the ten themes used to guide the meeting and voice your opinion for symposia by Decmeber 4 by emailing Dan.

11/9/2007
Congratulations to Dr. Nick Comerford on his 2008 nomination for President of SSSA!

10/23/2007
Conference Session Announcement - Soil Organic Matter Decomposition: the impact of land management practices at the European Geosciences Union -
April 13-18, 2008 - Vienna

10/22/2007
Division S-7 is hosting a Graduate Student Breakfast at the SSSA conference this year!  Any graduate student, new member or established member of S-7 is invited to attend.  Breakfast will be Monday, Nov. 5 at 7am in the Hampton Inn located across from the New Orleans Convention Center.  Please RSVP to Jennifer Knoepp by Nov. 1 if you'd like to attend.

10/3/2007
The SSSA Website Task Force requests your help in improving the society's website.  Find out how you can help here.

9/24/2007
Conference Announcement - Sixth International Conference on Serpentine Ecology - June 16-23, 2008 - Bar Harbor ME

8/15/2007
Dr. Earl Stone - Memoriam Notice

8/9/2007
Reminder - Abstract submission deadline for the 11th North American Forest Soils Conference is August 31.

7/17/2007
Society for Range Management is accepting abstracts for the January 2008 annual meeting in Louisville, KY.  There will also be a large job fair associated with the meeting!

7/7/2007
Fourth Nitrogen Conference to be held in Costa do Sauípe, Bahia, in Northeast Brazil, from October 1-5, 2007 - Abstract submission deadline July 31, 2007

6/26/2007
Daniel Markewitz would like to share a newly developed website - Carbon Trading: A primer for forest landowners - You can also find a link on the S-7 Links page.

6/23/2007
Call for abstracts - 11th North American Forest Soils Conference to be held at Virginia Tech in June 2008.

5/22/2007
Congratulations to all of those awarded with the honor of "Best Paper of Session" from the 2006 SSSA Annual Meetings!

4/26/2007
Congratulations to Lindsey Rustad of the USDA-FS, Durham, NH and University of Maine, Orono, ME on her election as Chair-Elect of Division S-7!

4/24/2007
The Future Directions of Soil Survey Committee of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Soil Survey Division wants your input!

4/23/2007
Congratulations to Dick Cline on his retirement from the US Forest Service after 32.5 years!  Learn more...

4/18/2007
S-7 Announces Symposium for 2007 SSSA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA - "Can forest soils be used for carbon credits or registries?"

4/16/2007
Reminder - Title submission deadline for this year's SSSA Annual Meetings is May 1!

4/13/2007
Double congratulations to Dr. Helga Van Miegroet for her reception of the Editor’s Citation for Excellence from SSSAJ, as well as her recognition by Utah State University as the Outstanding Faculty Member of the year!

4/10/2007
SSSA Council on the History, Philosophy,and Sociology of Soils has proposed 2 volunteer oral sessions for the annual meetings in New Orleans.

4/6/2007
Third RFP announced by the National Institute for Climatic Change Research (formerly the National Institutes for Global Environmental Change).  Required preproposals are due at 5pm PST on May 15, 2007.

3/30/2007
Congratulations to the Faculty of Forestry at The University of Toronto on the celebration of their 100-year anniversary!

3/29/2007
A copy of Hans Jenny's "Factors of Soil Formation:  A System of Quantitative Pedology" is available in the public domain and has been prepared in PDF format by The Soil and Health Library.

3/28/2007
Congratulations to Dr. Jim Burger, Professor of Forest Soil Science in the Department of Forestry at Virginia Tech, for his appointment as the Garland Gray Professor of Forestry by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors!
 
3/23/2007

Nominations sought for SSSA Irrometer Professional Certification Service Award - Deadline ffor nominations is March 27, 2007.

3/8/2007
Announcing the NEW S-7 online calendar!  Simply click the Calendar "pool" in the diagram to the left.  Please let us know of any events you'd like to add!

3/8/2007
Conference Announcement - International Symposium on Forest Soils and Ecosystem Health: Linking Local Management to Global Challenges - August 19-23,  2007 - Noosa, Sunshine Coast, southeast Queensland, Australia

3/7/2007
Conference Announcement - 11th North American Forest Soils Conference - June 21-25, 2008 - Blacksburg, Virginia - Your help is requested to identify potential keynote speakers.
 
2/15/2007
The Tri-Societies have over $250,000 in awards and scholarships (ranging from undergraduate through all career stages) for the 2007 year.  Nominate deserving candidates before March 27!

2/7/2007
The 2007 election for the Soil Science Society of America President-Elect, Division Chairs-Elect, and Divisional Representatives to the Board of Directors is being held electronically.  Log in to the SSSA website and vote before April 9, 2007!

2/5/2007
Northeastern Forest Soils Conference Field Tour announced - July 29-August 3, 2007 - northern Minnesota and southern Ontario

1/15/2007
Dr. Stephen Hart offers up his compendium of "hot" and "classic" papers in forest soils and ecosystem ecology used in his "Advanced Topics In Ecosystem Ecology And Wildland Soils" class at Northern Arizona University.

2006

2005


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