ASA, CSSA and SSSA International Annual Meetings (2015)

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

6:30 AM-8:00 AM

Oral Session

336 Frank N. Meyer Medal for Plant Genetic Resources Award and Breakfast

Organizer: Clarice J. Coyne

Moderator: Melanie L. Harrison

7:00 AM-7:30 AM

Presiding Officer Training: VII

7:00 AM-8:00 AM

North American Forest Soils Conference Planning Committee Meeting

Organizer: Paul W. Hazlett

7:00 AM-8:30 AM

ACS Graduate Student Committee

Organizer: Ashley Nicole Phillips

7:00 AM-9:00 AM

Oral Session

337 SSSA Breakfast, Awards, and Plenary (Nyle C. Brady Frontiers of Soil Science Lectureship)

Organizers: Mary Beth Kirkham and Harold van Es

Moderators: Harold van Es , Carolyn G. Olson and Jan W. Hopmans

7:00 AM-9:30 AM

Investigating Nitrogen Use on Soybeans - Project Update Discussion

Organizer: Daniel J. Davidson

7:00 AM-4:30 PM

Extension Education Community

Poster Session

338 Extension Materials on Display: III

Organizer: DeAnn R. Presley

7:55 AM-9:20 AM

Oral Session

339 Turfgrass Weeds, Diseases, and Insect Pests

Organizer: Kelly L. Kopp

Moderator: Joseph Roberts

7:55 AM-9:35 AM

Oral Session

340 Turfgrass Cultural Practices, Ecology and Environment

Organizer: Kelly L. Kopp

Moderator: Russell W. Jessup

7:55 AM-12:00 PM

Nutrients and Environmental Quality Community

Oral Session

341 Symposium--a Critical Assessment of Phosphorus Reduction Goals and Mitigation Strategies (SERA 17)

Community Leader: John J. Sloan

Organizers: John J. Sloan , Carl H. Bolster and Carrie A.M. Laboski

Moderators: Carl H. Bolster and John J. Sloan

7:55 AM-12:15 PM

Oral Session

342 Agronomic Production Systems: III

Community Leader: Chengci Chen

Moderators: Haishun Yang , Chengci Chen and Daniel S. Long

8:00 AM-8:45 AM

Oral Session

343 Business Meeting--Education & Extension Section

Organizer: Johnathon D. Holman

Moderator: Johnathon D. Holman

8:00 AM-10:50 AM

Soil Health Community

Oral Session

344 Soil Health Research for Agroecosystems: II

Organizer: Jodie M Reisner

8:00 AM-11:05 AM

Oral Session

345 Genomics, Molecular Genetics & Biotechnology: II

Organizer: Robert Stupar

Moderator: Robert Stupar

8:00 AM-11:20 AM

Oral Session

346 Global Agronomy: II

Organizer: Charles S. Wortmann

Moderator: Sjoerd Willem Duiker

8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Oral Session

347 Symposium--Improving Pulse Crops for Nutrition and Health

Organizer: Lee Tarpley

Moderator: Lee Tarpley

8:00 AM-5:00 PM

Oral Session

348 Symposium--The Intersection of Water Quality and Agriculture: Partnering with Agriculture on Issues, Challenges and Promising Solutions

Organizer: Dawn R. Gibas

Moderator: Dawn R. Gibas

8:10 AM-4:00 PM

Oral Session

349 Crop Physiology and Metabolism

Organizer: P.V. Vara Prasad

Moderator: P.V. Vara Prasad

8:15 AM-9:35 AM

Oral Session

350 Forage and Grazinglands: II

Organizer: Marisol T. Berti

Moderator: Jamie L. Foster

8:15 AM-11:55 AM

Oral Session

351 Symposium--Benefits and Barriers to Data Sharing

Organizers: John Spargo , T. Scott Murrell and Thomas F. Morris

Moderator: Thomas F. Morris

8:20 AM-11:00 AM

Oral Session

352 Symposium--Applications of UAV-Based Remote Sensing for Assessing Crop Stress

Organizers: Kevin P. Smith and Robert Koch

Moderator: Robert Koch

8:20 AM-12:00 PM

Solar Corridor Crop System Community

Oral Session

353 Symposium--the Solar Corridor's Potential to Capture Collaborative Synergy, in the Development of Critical Solutions

Organizer: Charles LeRoy Deichman

8:45 AM-12:05 PM

Extension Education Community

Oral Session

354 General Extension Education: I

Organizer: DeAnn R. Presley

Moderator: Olga Walsh

8:55 AM-11:15 AM

Oral Session

355 Agronomic Practices: Influence on Environmental Quality: I

Organizer: Diane E. Stott

Moderators: Michael L. Mashtare Jr. and Elizabeth Trybula

8:55 AM-11:20 AM

Cover Crop Management Community

Oral Session

356 Cover Crop Management: III

Organizers: Kipling S. Balkcom and Jourdan M. Bell

Moderator: Diane L. Rowland

9:00 AM-10:00 AM

Oral Session

357 Div. C03 Business Meeting--Crop Ecology, Management & Quality

Organizer: Russell W. Gesch

Moderator: Russell W. Gesch

9:00 AM-10:30 AM

358 Grant Application Navigation and Resources for Expanding Early Career Opportunities

Organizer: Emily J. Fuger

Moderator: Aaron L.M. Daigh

9:00 AM-11:05 AM

Oral Session

359 Symposium--Soil and Manure Laboratory Proficiency and Certification Programs

Organizers: Jerry Floren , Robert O. Miller , Manjula V. Nathan and Grant E. Cardon

9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Oral Session

Exhibits & Career Center Open

Organizer: Nicole Sandler

Oral Session

Graduate School Forum

Organizer: Nicole Sandler

9:30 AM-10:30 AM

Crops & Soils Editorial Board Meeting

Organizer: Matt Nilsson

National Academies (BANR)/Societies Meeting

Organizer: Sara Uttech

9:45 AM-10:45 AM

Oral Session

360 Symposium--Forage Roundtable

Organizer: Jamie L. Foster

Moderator: Jamie L. Foster

9:45 AM-11:00 AM

Oral Session

361 Symposium--SSSA IYS Celebration

Organizers: Harold van Es and David L. Lindbo

Moderators: Harold van Es and Carolyn G. Olson

10:00 AM-11:00 AM

Oral Session

Demonstration Stage: ALMACO "Seed Processing Line"

10:00 AM-12:00 PM

Oral Session

362 Div. C05 Business Meeting--Turfgrass Science

Organizer: Kelly L. Kopp

Moderator: Kelly L. Kopp

ACS324.1 Journal of Environmental Quality Editorial Board

Organizer: Edward G Gregorich

10:00 AM-12:15 PM

Oral Session

363 Plant Genetic Resources: I

Organizer: Clarice J. Coyne

Moderator: David M. Brenner

11:00 AM-11:50 AM

Oral Session

364 Winter Manure Application and Nutrient Loss in Runoff

Organizers: Clinton Williams and Peter A. Vadas

Moderator: Peter A. Vadas

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

Oral Session

365 Div. C06 Business Meeting--Forage and Grazinglands

Organizer: Marisol T. Berti

Moderator: Marisol T. Berti

Oral Session

366 Sergei A. Wilde Distinguished Lectureship on Forest Soils

Organizer: Scott X. Chang

Moderator: Scott X. Chang

Oral Session

Demonstration Stage: Gypsoil “What Gypsum Can Do For You”

11:00 AM-12:20 PM

Oral Session

367 Advances in Soil and Plant Analytical Techniques

Organizer: Joshua M. McGrath

Moderator: Nathan A. Slaton

Oral Session

368 Digital Soil Morphometrics

Organizers: Alfred E. Hartemink and Eric C. Brevik

Moderator: Alfred E. Hartemink

11:00 AM-2:00 PM

Oral Session

369 Nitrogen Fertilizer: Practices for Minimizing Environmental Impacts

Organizer: Bryan G. Hopkins

Moderator: Jessica Buss

11:00 AM-2:15 PM

Oral Session

370 Role of Soil Microbial Communities and Processes in Ecosystem Reclamation and Restoration: I

Organizers: Jay Norton , Terrence G. Gardner and Jennifer Moore-Kucera

Moderators: Jay Norton and Terrence G. Gardner

11:00 AM-2:30 PM

Oral Session

371 Linking Soil Macrofaunal and Microbial Communities with Crop Dynamics Including Diseases

Organizer: Christopher Ryan Penton

Moderator: Christopher Ryan Penton

Oral Session

372 Nitrification: New Players and Environmental Drivers: I

Organizer: Mussie Y. Habteselassie

Moderator: Mussie Y. Habteselassie

11:00 AM-2:35 PM

Oral Session

373 Phosphorus Science & Management

Organizers: Carrie A.M. Laboski and Joshua M. McGrath

Moderators: Dorivar A. Ruiz Diaz and Nicole M. Fiorellino

11:05 AM-12:00 PM

Soil Health Community

Oral Session

374 Business Meeting--Soil Health Community

Community Leader: Jodie M Reisner

Moderator: Jodie M Reisner

Oral Session

375 Joint Div. C01 & C07 Business Meetings

Organizer: Kevin P. Smith

Moderator: Kevin P. Smith

Oral Session

376 Joint Div. C07 & C01 Business Meetings

Organizer: Robert Stupar

Moderator: Robert Stupar

11:15 AM-12:00 PM

Oral Session

377 Business Meeting--Environmental Quality Section

Moderator: Diane E. Stott

11:20 AM-12:20 PM

Oral Session

378 Business Meeting--Global Agronomy Section

Organizer: Charles S. Wortmann

Moderator: Charles S. Wortmann

11:30 AM-1:30 PM

Oral Session

379 SSSA Business Meeting--Soil Physics and Hydrology

Organizer: Markus Flury

Moderator: Markus Flury

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Oral Session

Demonstration Stage: Trimble: II

Women in Agronomy, Crops, Soils and Environmental Sciences Committee

Organizer: Susan M. Chapman

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

Oral Session

380 Symposium--Perspectives on Sustainably Supporting the Human Populace in the Future

Organizer: Ronald F. Turco

Moderator: Manjit Misra

12:55 PM-2:00 PM

Soil Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Community

Oral Session

381 Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Interactions and Soil Carbon Dynamics in Long-Term Research Experiments

Organizer: Hero T. Gollany

Moderator: Hero T. Gollany

12:55 PM-2:15 PM

Nutrients and Environmental Quality Community

Oral Session

382 Water Quality Protection with Cover Crops

Organizers: John J. Sloan and Kipling S. Balkcom

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Organic Management Systems Community

Oral Session

383 Business Meeting--Organic Management Systems Community

Community Leader: Erin Silva

Moderator: Erin Silva

Biophysical Measurements and Sensors Community

Oral Session

384 Biophysical Measurements and Sensors: I

Community Leader: Bruce Bugbee

Oral Session

385 Div. C02 Business Meeting--Crop Physiology and Metabolism

Organizer: P.V. Vara Prasad

Moderator: P.V. Vara Prasad

Oral Session

386 SSSA Business Meeting--Wetland Soils

Organizer: Bruce L. Vasilas

Moderator: Bruce L. Vasilas

Oral Session

Demonstration Stage: FIAlab Instrument Inc.-Flow Injection Analyzer Demo

1:00 PM-2:05 PM

Solar Corridor Crop System Community

Oral Session

387 Science Based Solar Corridor, Economic and Sociological Yield Strategies for Small Holder Farms

Organizer: Charles LeRoy Deichman

Animal Agriculture and the Environment Community

Oral Session

388 Environmental Implications of Using Poultry Litter in Agriculture

Community Leader: Robert S. Dungan

Moderator: H. Allen Torbert

1:00 PM-2:15 PM

Oral Session

389 SSSA Business Meeting--Forest, Range & Wildland Soils

Organizer: Russell D. Briggs

Moderator: Russell D. Briggs

1:00 PM-2:20 PM

Oral Session

390 Forage and Grazinglands: III

Organizer: Marisol T. Berti

Moderator: Marisol T. Berti

Oral Session

391 Potassium Science and Management

Organizers: Carrie A.M. Laboski and Joshua M. McGrath

Moderator: Leticia S. Sonon

Oral Session

392 Soil Quality - What Does It Mean and How Can It be Measured

Organizers: Clinton Williams and Shabtai Bittman

Moderator: Shabtai Bittman

1:00 PM-2:55 PM

Oral Session

393 The Science & Management of Secondary & Micronutrients

Organizers: Carrie A.M. Laboski and Joshua M. McGrath

Moderator: Daniel E. Kaiser

1:00 PM-3:00 PM

Oral Session

394 Symposium--New Technologies for Soil Scientists in the 21st Century

Organizers: Emily McKindley Clark and Shannon L. Gomes

Moderator: Shannon L. Gomes

1:00 PM-3:15 PM

Extension Education Community

Oral Session

395 Applied Agronomic Research and Extension: I

Organizer: DeAnn R. Presley

Moderator: William Jeremy Ross

1:00 PM-4:05 PM

Oral Session

396 Soil Biogeochemistry of Redox Driven Processes and Effects on Chemical Cycling of Nutrients and Contaminants: I

Organizers: Daniel G. Strawn and Zhenli He

Moderator: Zhenli He

1:00 PM-4:15 PM

Oral Session

397 Strategies for Managing Microbial Communities and Soil Health (Biochar, Biofertilizers, and other Organic Amendments): II

Organizer: Daniel Manter

Moderator: Michael Lehman

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

Analysis of Grazing Data II - Regression Techniques

Organizer: Edzard van Santen

1:15 PM-2:15 PM

Oral Session

398 SSSA Business Meeting--Soil & Water Management & Conservation

Organizer: David R. Huggins

Moderator: David R. Huggins

1:30 PM-2:30 PM

Oral Session

399 Introduction to the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research

Oral Session

400 Symposium--Moderated Discussion on Intellectual Property (IP) Protection of Plant–related Inventions in the U.S.

Organizer: Ann Marie Thro

Moderator: Ann Marie Thro

Oral Session

401 Business Meeting--Agronomic Production Systems Section

Community Leader: Chengci Chen

Moderator: Chengci Chen

Crop Irrigation Strategies and Management Community

Oral Session

402 Business Meeting--Crop Irrigation Strategies and Management Community

Community Leader: Jourdan M. Bell

Moderator: Jourdan M. Bell

Kirkham Conference Committee Meeting

Organizer: Sara Uttech

1:45 PM-4:30 PM

Oral Session

403 Remote Sensing of Soil Water: Soil Moisture Active Passive and Beyond

Organizers: Markus Flury , Todd G. Caldwell , Narendra Das , Michael H. Cosh and Binayak P. Mohanty

Moderators: Todd G. Caldwell , Narendra Das , Michael H. Cosh and Binayak P. Mohanty

2:00 PM-3:00 PM

ACS 530 Early Career Committee Meeting

Organizer: Emily J. Fuger

Oral Session

Demonstration Stage: Campbell Scientific, Inc.

2:05 PM-2:30 PM

Solar Corridor Crop System Community

Oral Session

404 Business Meeting--Solar Corridor Crop System Community

Community Leader: Charles LeRoy Deichman

Moderator: Charles LeRoy Deichman

Animal Agriculture and the Environment Community

Oral Session

405 Business Meeting--Animal Agriculture and the Environment Community

Community Leader: Robert S. Dungan

Moderator: Robert S. Dungan

2:15 PM-2:45 PM

Nutrients and Environmental Quality Community

Oral Session

406 Business Meeting--Nutrients and Environmental Quality Community

Community Leader: John J. Sloan

Moderator: John J. Sloan

2:15 PM-3:00 PM

Soil Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Community

Oral Session

407 Business Meeting--Soil Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Community

Community Leader: Hero T. Gollany

Moderator: Hero T. Gollany

2:20 PM-3:25 PM

Oral Session

408 Polyhalites As a Nutrient Source

Organizers: Joshua M. McGrath and Carrie A.M. Laboski

Moderator: Carl Rosen

2:30 PM-4:00 PM

ASA Community & Section Feedback Meeting

Organizers: Darin W Lickfeldt , Paul E. Fixen and Nicole Sandler

2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Poster Session

409 Agronomic Production Systems: II

Community Leader: Chengci Chen

Crop Irrigation Strategies and Management Community

Poster Session

410 Strategies to Improve Water Use Efficiency in Crop Rotations and Cover Crop Systems

Organizers: Jourdan M. Bell and Kip Balkcom

Biophysical Measurements and Sensors Community

Poster Session

411 Biophysical Measurements and Sensors: II

Community Leader: Bruce Bugbee

Poster Session

412 Climatology & Modeling: II

Organizer: Senthold Asseng

Poster Session

413 Agronomic Practices: Influence on Environmental Quality: II

Organizer: Diane E. Stott

Nutrients and Environmental Quality Community

Poster Session

414 Nutrients and Environmental Quality

Organizer: John J. Sloan

Poster Session

415 Global Agronomy: III

Organizer: Charles S. Wortmann

Cover Crop Management Community

Poster Session

416 Cover Crop Management: IV

Organizer: Kipling S. Balkcom

Moderator: Kipling S. Balkcom

Poster Session

417 Crop Breeding and Genetics: III

Organizer: Kevin Smith

Poster Session

418 Turfgrass Science: II

Organizer: Kelly L. Kopp

Poster Session

419 Plant Genetic Resources: II

Organizer: Clarice J. Coyne

Poster Session

420 Nutrient Management & Soil & Plant Analysis Poster Session

Organizers: Joshua M. McGrath and Carrie A.M. Laboski

Poster Session

421 Fire Effects on the Soil System: II

Organizers: Jorge Mataix-Solera , Saskia Keesstra and Eric C. Brevik

Moderator: Jorge Mataix-Solera

Poster Session

422 Soil Erosion and Runoff: Impacts on Productivity and Environmental Quality

Organizer: David R. Huggins

Poster Session

423 Soil Tillage and Crop Residue Management: Impacts on Sustaining Soil and Water Resources

Organizer: David R. Huggins

Poster Session

424 International Year of Soils: Soil Biology and Biochemistry Research Across the Globe: II

Organizer: Veronica Acosta-Martinez

Poster Session

425 Nitrification: New Players and Environmental Drivers: II

Organizer: Mussie Y. Habteselassie

Poster Session

426 Role of Soil Microbial Communities and Processes in Ecosystem Reclamation and Restoration: II

Organizers: Jay Norton , Jennifer Moore-Kucera , Terrence G. Gardner and Lisa Fultz

Poster Session

427 Nitrogen Science & Management Posters

Organizer: Carrie A.M. Laboski

Poster Session

428 Potassium Science and Management Posters

Organizer: Carrie A.M. Laboski

Poster Session

429 Soil Fertility & Plant Nutrition: II

Organizer: Carrie A.M. Laboski

Poster Session

430 Soils & Environmental Quality: II

Organizer: Clinton Williams

Poster Session

431 Wetland Soils: II (includes student competition)

Organizer: Bruce L. Vasilas

Moderator: Brian A. Needelman

3:00 PM-4:00 PM

Oral Session

Demonstration Stage: Gylling Data Management: Data Preservation Through Structured Research Data Management

4:30 PM-5:30 PM

Closing Reception

5:00 PM-7:00 PM

SERA-17 Kick-Off Mixer

Organizer: Joni Tanner

5:30 PM-6:30 PM

Oral Session

432 ASA, CSSA, SSSA, and ESA Closing Keynote

Moderators: Paul E. Fixen , Michael A. Grusak and Harold van Es