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2017 Annual Meeting | Oct. 22-25 | Tampa, FL

199 Estimating Soil Physical Properties

Oral Session
SSSA Division: Soil Physics and Hydrology
This session focuses on methods for estimating soil physical properties in the laboratory and the field.
Tuesday, October 24, 2017: 9:25 AM-11:30 AM
Tampa Convention Center, Room 21

Organizer:
Thorsten Knappenberger
Moderator:
Thorsten Knappenberger
9:25 AM
Introductory Remarks
9:30 AM
Comparison of Methods for Determination of Particle Density.
Aziz Amoozegar, North Carolina State University; Joshua Heitman, North Carolina State University
9:45 AM
Evaluation of Two Different Approaches for Predicting Soil Water Contents at Field Capacity and Wilting Point.
Cristina P. Contreras, Catholic University of Chile; Carlos A. Bonilla, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
10:00 AM
A Comparison of Machine Learning Methods for Predicting Field Capacity and Wilting Point in Soils from Chile.
Sara E Acevedo, Catholic University of Chile; Carlos A. Bonilla, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
10:15 AM
Validation and Evaluation of Vapor Pressure and Evaporation Methods for Estimating of Soil Water Characteristic Curves.
Sara E Acevedo, Catholic University of Chile; Cristina P. Contreras, Catholic University of Chile; Carlos A. Bonilla, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
10:30 AM
Predicting Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Values in a Soil Profile from Various Estimates of Critical Pore Diameter.
Mingming Qin, Rutgers University; Daniel Gimenez, Rutgers University; Daniel Hirmas, University of Kansas
10:45 AM
Revealing in-Situ Unsaturated Soil Hydraulic Conductivity at Fine Depth Scale.
Zhengchao Tian, North Carolina State University; Joshua L Heitman, North Carolina State University; Robert Horton, Iowa State University
11:15 AM
Is the Textural Classification Built on Sand?.
Miguel Angel Martin, Technical University of Madrid; Carlos García-Gutiérrez Báez, Technical University of Madrid; Miguel Reyes Castro, Technical University of Madrid; Yakov A. Pachepsky, USDA-ARS
11:30 AM
Adjourn