Session: In D-Sparks Style: Exploring Rates and Mechanisms of Soil Chemical Processes Oral

Division: SSSA Division: Soil Chemistry

Title: In D-Sparks Style: Exploring Rates and Mechanisms of Soil Chemical Processes Oral

Organizers: Daniel G. Strawn , Sanjai J. Parikh , Scott Fendorf , Derek Peak and Audrey V. Gamble
Moderator: Tyler D. Sowers
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Format: Oral Topical Session
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Session Description: This session was originally a symposium to honor Dr. Donald Spark's contribution to soil chemistry. Due to COVID19, we are postponing the symposium till next year for the OG. So for this year, this session explores soil chemical processes in the D-Sparks Style.  Advancement of soil health requires knowledge of rates and mechanisms of soil chemical processes. This session invites talks elucidating nutrients and contaminant reaction mechanisms in soils. We encourage submissions using spectroscopic analysis and high-resolution microscopy to probe speciation at the solid-solution interface within a range of systems including those examining microbe-mineral interactions to rhizosphere processes.