General Soil and Water Management and Conservation: I

Oral Session

S06 Soil & Water Management & Conservation

Oral session. This session covers general topics related to Soil and Water Management and Conservation.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:55 AM
Duke Energy Convention Center, Room 204, Level 2
Organizer:
Jeffrey Strock
Presider:
Carmen M. Ugarte
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:20 AM
Potential for Biochar to Mitigate N2O Emissions Varies Across Functional Locations and with Changes to Soil Physical and Chemical Properties in a California Wine Grape System.
Elizabeth C. Verhoeven, University of California, Davis; Emma Suddick, University of California, Davis; Johan Six, University of California, Davis
8:35 AM
Predicting Runoff Events with RUSLE2.
Seth Dabney, USDA National Sedimentation Laboratory; Daniel Yoder, University of Tennessee
8:50 AM
Switchgrass As a Bioenergy Crop for the Pacific Northwest.
Romulus O. Okwany, Washington State University; Steven Fransen, Washington State University
9:05 AM
On-Farm Assessment of Crop Residue Removal Impacts On Soil Wind Erodibility Parameters in the Centeral Great Plains.
Yuxin He, Kansas State University; Humberto Blanco, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; John Tatarko, USDA-ARS; Scott Staggenborg, Kansas State University; DeAnn Presley, Kansas State University
9:20 AM
State-Space Modeling Allows the Separation of Small- and Large-Scale Variability Components of a Field Solute Leaching Experiment.
Andreas Schwen, University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences (BOKU); Yang Yang, University of Kentucky; Riley J. Walton, University Of Kentucky; Ole Wendroth, University of Kentucky
9:35 AM
Genetic Algorithm Optimized Rainfall-Runoff Fuzzy Inference System for Row Crop Watersheds with Claypan Soils.
Anoma Senaviratne, Center for Agroforestry, University of Missouri; Ranjith P. Udawatta, University of Missouri; Claire Baffaut, USDA-ARS, University of Missouri; Stephen H. Anderson, Univ. of Missouri; Allen Thompson, University of Missouri
9:50 AM
Break
10:20 AM
Effects of Wind Erosion On Water Balance in a Crop Field in the Sahel, West Africa.
Kenta Ikazaki, Tokyo Metropolitan University; Hitoshi Shinjo, Kyoto University; Ueru Tanaka, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature; Hirohiko Ishikawa, Kyoto University; Shinya Funakawa, Kyoto University; Takashi Kosaki, Tokyo Metropolitan University
10:35 AM
Evaluation of Conservation Performance in Cropland Regions of the United States Using Process-Based Models.
Ho-Young Kwon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Carmen M. Ugarte, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Michelle M. Wander, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Susan S. Andrews, USDA-Natural Resources Conservaiton Service
10:50 AM
Relationships Between Soil Properties and Erodibility in Central Chile.
Carlos A. Bonilla, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Odette Johnson, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
11:20 AM
Genetic Dissection of Drought Tolerance in Adapted x Exotic Crosses of Elite Maize (Zea mays L.) Inbred Lines.
Moses A. Adebayo, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture; Abebe Menkir, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture; Essie Blay, West Africa for Crop Improvement, Univ. of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.; Vernon Gracen, West Africa for Crop Improvement, Univ. of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.; Charles The, West Africa for Crop Improvement, Univ. of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.; Eric Danquah, West Africa for Crop Improvement, Univ. of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.
11:35 AM
Wheat Stubble Height On Subsequent Corn and Grain Sorghum Production.
Alan J. Schlegel, Kansas State University; Lucas Haag, Kansas State University
11:50 AM
Concluding Remarks
11:55 AM
Adjourn