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2019 ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meeting | Nov. 10-13 | San Antonio, Texas

As the ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meeting is approaching. schedule the ISMC Community Meeting on your Agenda:

ISMC Community Meeting
Monday, November 11, 2019     4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Venue: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center - 301B

Organizers:

• Teamrat Ghezzehei

  • University of California-Merced
• Harry Vereecken

  • Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH

Description: Introduce the missions and activities of the consortium, hear updates on contributions by ISMC members, discussion on on-going projects and proposals, gather feedback from community.
For the full meeting programme, follow this link.

Register by September 26 for the lowest rate.
Early bird pricing ends September 26 for the 2019 Annual Meeting and Tours. The meeting offers a unique environment as the Societies host more than 4,000 scientists, professionals, educators, and students. Register to gain access to all three Societies' sessions, the expansive exhibit hall, additional networking opportunities, and special collaborative sessions all demonstrating the meeting theme, "Embracing the Digital Environment."

Reserve Now – Hotel rooms closest to the San Antonio (Henry B. Gonzalez) Convention Center are going quickly!
Reserve housing soon before our hotels sell out. The housing deadline is October 18, so please book now to ensure you receive the discounted rate.

ISMC 2020 Session Proposals

Take a lead in a session proposal and submit your session description for the upcoming ISMC 2020 conference.

Session Conveners and the ISMC Executive Board will form the Scientific Programme Committee.

The last ISMC Conference 2018 was a unique experience with 130 soil scientists from 22 countries.

Here: Group Picture ISMC Conference 2018 at Wageningen University and Research.

Take your chances and enlarge your network:
There are three more spots available at the pre-AGU Soil Science Networking Event!

The Soil Science Networking Event engages ECRs for pushing a joint publication output and to exchange experience in a structured discussion. More details:

More sessions at previous ISMC News and AGU Soil SWIRL

ISMC Science outreach featured in several community outlets.
The review on modeling infiltration processes was featured and received attention in several community outlets, the https://www.eurekalert.org and https://www.newswise.com/ only two of them: Scientists call for infiltration to be better incorporated into land surface models:

Credit: J. Sebastián Silva O. Soil structure is one of many factors that affects infiltration of water.

AGU CZO workshop and Webinar

As you may be aware, there is an early career AGU workshop occurring on December, 8th 2019 in San Francisco on 'Toward an International Critical Zone Network-of-Networks for the Next Generation through Shared Science, Tools, Data and Philosophy'.

To help shape this workshop, several webinar-based discussions will be held prior to the actual workshop. The first webinar will be held on September 27th, 8-9 am Pacific. The webinar and workshop will focus on how to facilitate cross-site and cross-network knowledge by synthesizing the scientific drivers, properties and processes studied, and instrumentation and modelling approaches used at different international CZ networks.

The first webinar will provide an overview of the network of CZOs and their watershed equivalents. Confirmed speakers include Susan Hubbard (DOE Watersheds), Jerome Gaillardet (French OZCAR), Tim White (US CZO), Harry Vereecken (German TERENO) and Philip Marsh (Canadian Network).

If you’re interested in learning about these international networks, we encourage you to attend and help build a new scientific vision together. To register for this webinar, please follow up on the website.

The website contains additional details, and also includes the link to register for the webinar.
We hope you’ll join us, and please forward this webinar announcement to all that may be interested.

Sincerely,
Bhavna Arora, James Stegen, Jannis Groh, Andrew Ireson, Genevieve Ali, Pamela L. Sullivan, Adam Wymore, Basile Hector, and Caroline Le Bouteiller

350 years of since the discovery of 'Phosphorus'!
A number of activities is taking place during the Phosphorus Week:

• Phosphorus blogs on discovery, challenges, management, sources, and farmers need of phosphorus: https://soilsmatter.wordpress.com/
• A podcast to be published by Field Lab Earth - ASA, CSSA, SSSA
• building up on the publication by Sharpley et al. (2018): "Celebrating the 350th Anniversary of Phosphorus Discovery: A Conundrum of Deficiency and Excess" in Journal of Environmental Quality, DOI: 10.2134/jeq2018.05.0170.
• For more details, we refer to the CSA News Magazine.

Calendar

Sep 26 Registration SSSA meeting

Nov 10-13 SSSA Annual Meeting 2019 ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meeting

Nov 25 Soil and the SDGs: challenges and need for action in Brussels

Dec 8 ISMC General Assembly & Early Career Workshop

Dec 9-13 AGU Fall Meeting