Applications are open for the Les Lavkulich Graduate Student Award in Soil Science and the Art Bomke Undergraduate Student Award in Soil Science. Application deadline: November 8, 2019. Click here for more information.
CSSS/CSAFM Annual Meeting and Rhizosphere5 Conference – July 10-12, 2019
2019 Joint Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Soil Science (CSSS) and the Canadian Society for Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (CSAFM) is happening July 10 to 12, 2019 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. More information can be found here.
Registration for the CSSS/CSAFM 2019 meeting closes July 1st. You can register here.
This joint annual meeting will overlap with Rhizosphere5 in Saskatoon July 7–11th. Those who wish to register for both conferences can do so at a reduced rate. For more details, see the registration and abstract submission page and related registration link.
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BC Institute of Agrologists AGM – May 8, 2019
Date: Wednesday May 8, 2019
Location: The Westin Bayshore Hotel, 1601 Bayshore Drive in Vancouver – Ballroom
Time: 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Registration for the BCIA AGM is NO CHARGE. Login to register below. (Be sure to confirm your registration by selecting REGISTER FOR EVENT twice.)
The business conducted at the annual general meeting shall include:
- adoption of minutes of the previous annual general meeting;
- adoption of the audited annual financial statements;
- appointment of auditors;
- receipt of council election results;
- consideration of proposed resolutions
- and any other business specified in the notice of the annual general meeting.
The BCIA AGM is being held in conjunction with the 2019 BC Land Summit May 8 – 10th at the Westin Bayshore Hotel. Held every five years, the BC Land Summit is the premier collaborative conference providing interdisciplinary education, professional development, and training opportunities for professional practitioners in fields related to land and land-use in British Columbia of which BCIA is one of the professional organizations involved. https://www.bclandsummit.com/
BCIA Ethics for Professionals Workshop will be held on Tuesday, May 7th, 9 am – 4 pm at the Westin Bayshore. AAgs – $120. $20 for PAgs who have previously taken this workshop. To register, go to www.bcia.com/events
For Articling Agrologists! The Profession of Agrology – AAg Workshop will be offered as a face to face workshop on Wed, May 8, 9 am to noon, at the Westin Bayshore in Vancouver prior to the Provincial AGM. To register, go to www.bcia.com/events
Karl C. Ivarson Scholarship for Students in Soil Science
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The Dr. Karl C. Ivarson Soil Science Scholarship provides financial support to a student entering the second or subsequent year of graduate studies in soil science (agriculture, environment, geology, agro-ecology or other related disciplines) at a Canadian university. Candidates must hold Canadian Citizenship or Permanent Residence status in Canada and be enrolled in their graduate program for at least one semester beyond the application deadline. One scholarship of $2,000 will be offered in 2019. Scholarships are awarded using the following criteria, not listed in order of importance:
This scholarship was created by Dr. Karl C. Ivarson through a gift to the Canadian Foundation for Food and Agricultural Education. 2019 Application Guidelines and Application Form can be found at http://cffae.ca/ivarson-soils/ Deadline for Application – 11:59 pm EDT, May 27, 2019 |
CSSS Alaska and Arctic Soils Field Tour
There are still three spots available for the CSSS 2019 Alaska and Artic Soils summer field tour. Spots will be assigned on a first come basis. The trip is July 11-23, 2019. The base trip should cost $1,735 plus airfare for undergraduates. There are no funds for scholarships or discounts for students this year. Airfare may start to go up on May 20. This is a continuation/expansion of Chin-Lu Pings Arctic Soils Field Course at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.
More information is available on the Alaska and Arctic Soils Field Tour Flyer.
If you are interested in this tour please click here and complete the form.
2019 Alberta Soils Tour
May 30-31, 2019
Central Alberta Region
Red Deer – Drumheller – Red Deer
The Alberta Soils Tour is an excellent training opportunity for those working with soils, whether the focus is on soil conservation, land reclamation, or agronomy. Experts will provide background on soil formation and the various soil profiles for each of the landscapes encountered in the tour. Various soil conservation, land habitat, and agronomy topics will be discussed.
This 2-day event will focus upon the Central Alberta Region. The Tour will start from Red Deer, AB, and go southeast into the badlands area near Drumheller, AB, finally returning to Red Deer, AB. Experts will provide background on soil formation and the various soil profiles for each of the landscapes encountered during the tour. Come, make new friends, and expand your horizons!
Co-Leaders for the 2019 Alberta Soil Tour are:
- Ed Karpuk, Resource Inventory Specialist with Alberta Environment and Parks
- Ron McNeil, President of LandWise Inc.
In 2019, the Alberta Soils Tour will focus on typical soils of Alberta prairies:
- Black and Dark Brown Chernozems,
- Solonetzic soils
- Humic Vertisols, and
- Gleysols, including saline phases.
The variety of parent materials covered will include glacial till, glaciolacustrine and lacustrine sediments, pre-glacial gravels and various types of bedrock.
More information is available at http://www.soilsworkshop.ab.ca/tour.html
Registration is now open online at https://2019absoilstour.eventbrite.ca/
As above, so below: An introduction to soils, ecosystems and livelihoods in the Tropics
The tropics are as beautiful and diverse below-ground as they are above-ground. Learn how to use knowledge about the natural variability in soil properties for the sustainable management of ecosystems and farms.
This free, 7-week, edX course starts May 13, 2019.
Learn more and view the course syllabus here.
Instructors:
Karen Vancampenhout, Professor of Soil Science, KU Leuven University
Stephan Mantel, Head of World Soil Museum – ISRIC World Soil Information
About this course
Soils form the foundation of sustainable development. They grow our food, fiber and fuel, are a habitat for organisms, buffer and purify water and safeguard archaeological legacies. It is therefore of vital importance to understand how soil properties vary across tropical ecosystems and landscapes, and how these properties affect biodiversity and livelihoods. So if you want to understand tropical soils and want to learn how to keep those soils healthy, this course is for you! You’ll need basic knowledge of life sciences.
In this course, we will go on virtual excursions to explore the major soils of five biomes: forests, mountains, grasslands, deserts, and wetlands. With the support of JRC and FAO, instructors from KU Leuven and ISRIC will explain which soils develop under certain conditions, what their most important traits are and how those insights can make land use more sustainable. Our partners from different research projects all over the tropics moreover will introduce you to their work and show you real-life examples of how they apply soil knowledge through engaging videos and case studies.
What you’ll learn
Through this course you will:
- Understand how soils are formed and why they occur in certain climates and landscape positions
- Learn to recognize and classify the major soils of the world (WRB 2016)
- Learn to determine the opportunities and challenges of each soil type in relation to biodiversity, livelihoods, and management
- Learn to interpret soil maps
- Gain insight into possible solutions and management practices to preserve or restore soil functions and learn to apply these insights by means of case-studies