Session: Special Session Symposium--Grand Soil Challenges Across Latitudes

Division: Special Sessions

Title: Special Session Symposium--Grand Soil Challenges Across Latitudes

Lead Community Sponsor:
Cosponsor: SSSA Division: Soil Physics and Hydrology, SSSA Division: Soil Chemistry, SSSA Division: Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition, SSSA Division: Pedology, SSSA Division: Nutrient Management and Soil and Plant Analysis, SSSA Division: Soils and Environmental Quality
Community Cosponsor:
Format: Oral Symposium
Keywords: Biodiversity, Climate change, Food security and Grand challenges

Session Description: Tackling this meeting's theme, this symposium will provide a global view of the major challenges soils face at boreal, humid temperate, arid temperate and tropical latitudes. The grand challenges identified by the Soil Science Society of America are summarized in one sentence: “Optimizing soil ecosystem services for greater food and energy security, water quality, and adaptation to and mitigation of climate change”.Each speaker will discuss these challenges as they pertain to major latitudinal regions of the world.