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Past S-7 Headlines - 2009

11/30/2009
Nominations are currently being sought for S-7 Chair-Elect and SSSA President-Elect.  Please send your nominations to Lindsey Rustad by Thursday, December 3, 2009.

10/16/2009
Congratulations to Dave D'Amore, recently named the
2009 Field Soil Scientist of the Year by the US Forest Service!

10/13/2009
Congratulations to S-7 member, Mary Beth Adams, on becoming a SSSA Fellow!

10/9/2009
Special Issue of Forest Ecology and Management now available - Forest Soil Science: Celebrating 50 Years of Research on Properties, Processes and Management of Forest Soils - Selected and Edited Papers from the 11th North American Forest Soils Conference - Congratulations to all of the S-7 members included and thank you to S-7 members Mary Beth Adams and Scott Chang for their role editing the special issue!

9/8/2009
Jennifer Knoepp, Chair of the planning committee for the 12th North American Forest Soils Conference, calls for proposals to host in 2013.

8/6/2009
Session Announcement -
Global Soil Change: New Frontiers for the Biogeosciences - AGU - December 14-18, 2009 - San Francisco, CA

8/6/2009
Conference Announcement - Influence of Biochar on Soil Processes and Fertility - October 18-20, 2009 - Beijing, China

7/30/2009
Reminder of Important Dates for the Upcoming SSSA International Annual Meetings

7/15/2009
Announcing Two USDA-CSREES Grantsmanship Workshops in November

7/9/2009
Coal Fly Ash Research Opportunity - Pre-proposals Due August 31, 2009

7/6/2009
Workshop Announcement - Best Management Practices for Maintaining Soil Productivity in the Douglas-fir Region - September 22, 2009 - Shelton, WA

6/10/2009
Conference Announcemnt/Invitation to Submit Abstracts - International Symposium on Soil Organic Matter Dynamics: Land Use, Management and Global Change - July 6-9th - Colorado Springs, Colorado

6/3/2009
S-7 Chair, Lindsey Rustad, is seeking volunteers to moderate sessions at this year's annual meetings.  Please contact here ASAP if interested!

4/23/2009
Symposium Announcement - 75 Years of Watershed Research at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory - November 3-4, 2009, Dillard, GA

3/31/2009
Meeting Announcement - California Forest Soils Council Spring Meeting - "Assessing forest C across the landscape - biomass and soil in the C balance" - April 10, 2009 - UC Davis

3/24/2009
Conference Announcement - 48th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nematologists and the 12th Biennial Meeting of the Soil Ecology Society - "Forming Bridges in a Changing World" - July 12-15, 2009 - Burlington, VT - Abstracts Due:  April 1

3/19/2009
Dr. Lucian Zelazny - Memoriam Notice

3/4/2009
US Forest Service video tutorial "Managing your Woodlot" is available online.

2/25/2009
Conference Announcement and Call for Abstracts -
Carbon in Northern Forests: Integration of Research and Management - June 10-11, 2009 - Traverse City, Michigan - Abstracts Due: April 3

1/2/2009
Course Announcement - PhD Course on Functioning of Boreal Forest Ecosystems - June 6-12 - Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umea, Sweden


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