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New perspectives on soil models

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At Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Travel details. Keynotes.

Contact: Dr. Martine van der Ploeg, martine.vanderploeg@wur.nl; Dr. Roland Baatz, r.baatz@fz-juelich.de

PASCAL focusses at a secure and sustainable food production for the African continent as one of
the most demanding global challenges. Founded by the German Ministry of Education and Research
(BMBF) within the scope of the DFG Ideas Competition International Research Marketing.

Date & Venue: WASCAL Headquarters; Accra, Ghana - Nov. 26-30, 2018

Registration by June 30, 2018 at the latest.

The International Soil Modeling Consortium is officially one year old. We started out with
enthusiastic and ambitious goals, and you will discover in this report that we are making
significant progress in reaching these goals. Throughout the community, that enthusiasm
has developed into a special kind of engaging spirit, reflected in a series of highlights in

activities and networking.

Click here to read the ISMC Annual report 2017 (.pdf)

CZO / LTER / NEON / ISMC Joint Workshop - Modeling the Critical Zone; State of the Art, Data Integration, and Frontiers Read more...

ISMC conference/workshop on the future (generation) of PedoTransfer Functions (part of the AGU Fall meeting) Read more...
 

Learn more about the Global Infiltration Database: Read more...

ISMC is not only strong partner to the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS), but we now also actively co-coordinate their Critical Zone Focus Research Group together with Critical Zone Observatory (CZO).

See http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/CZ

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9th PEDOFRACT Conference with the general topic "Advances in soil scaling: theories, techniques and applications" will be held at Barco de Ávila (Spain) on the second week of July 2019.

The keynote lectures will be given by:

John Crawford (Rothamsted Research, United Kingdom)
Patricia Garnier (INRA-AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, France)
Kirill Gerke (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation)
Saskia Keesstra (Soil, Water and Land Use, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands)
Alexandra Kravchenko (Dept. of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, USA)
Hans-Jörg Vogel (Department Soil System Science, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany)

Similar to previous PEDOFRACTS, we will publish the collection of papers in a special issue of a broadminded journal. The previous special issues were “Fractals in soil science”, Geoderma, v. 88(3-4), 1999, (2) “Scaling, fractals and diversity in soils and ecohydrology”, Ecological Modeling, v. 182 (3-4), 2005, (3) “ (4) “Fractal geometry applied to soil and related hierarchical systems – fractals, complexity, and heterogeneity”, Geoderma, v. 134 (3-4), 2006, (5) " Fractal modeling and scaling in natural systems "Ecological Complexity, v. 6(3), 2009, (6) " Fractal and multifractal models applied to porous media", Vadose Zone Journal, 8(1), 2009, (7) "Scaling in Soil and Other Complex Porous Media Vadose Zone Journal, 12(3), 2013, “Structure and function of soil and soil cover in a changing world: characterization and scaling”, Geoderma, 2017, 287(1).

We will be happy to welcome you in El Barco de Ávila (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Barco_de_%C3%81vila) and provide an excellent environment for the exchange of ideas and initiation of collaborations within and across research fields. El Barco de Ávila is a relatively small village in center Spain, 200 km west Madrid, at the skirts of Sierra de Gredos in its northwestern end. This location for PEDOFRACTs has been tried in the past, and has proven to be excellent for good interactions and reflections. A PEDOFRACT typically goes for three full days, a half day excursion to visit the spectacular surroundings will be organized. Buses for the roundtrip El Barco de Ávila – Madrid will be provided.

More information will be made available shortly. Please let us know via pedofract2019.etsiaab@upm.es if you will be interested in the participation in the workshop.

On behalf of the organizers,
 

Miguel Ángel Martín (miguelangel.martin@upm.es),
Yakov Pachepsky (Yakov.Pachepsky@ars.usda.gov)
Fernando San José Martínez (fernando.sanjose@upm.es)