DigitalSoilMapping.org

The Division of Plant & Soil Sciences at West Virginia University has an opening for an M.S. or a Ph.D. student starting in August 2009 or January 2010. The student will collaborate on efforts to develop digital soil property maps at regional and continental scales. Efforts will include regionalizing and disaggregating existing vector soil survey information, incorporating existing and new point data, and investigating the use of raster data sources to improve the spatial prediction of soil classes and soil properties. The specific project, funded by the US Forest Service, is to develop spatial prediction models of soil organic carbon across the Northeast and North Central United States based on detailed soil map information and soil point data. We seek an individual with an interest in studying soil variability and spatial modeling, as well as an understanding of geographic information science and statistical modeling techniques.

Visit http://www.caf.wvu.edu/plsc/soilscience/Thompson/Research/pedometrics/assistantships.htm for more information.

WCSS Symposia 1.3 – Digital soil assessment

This symposium focuses on Digital Soil Assessment which is the process beyond Digital Soil Mapping (DSM). Once the soil map and the associated accuracy have been produced, these serve as inputs for modelling soil processes (threats to soil, soil functions, soil-environment relationships). The accuracy produced during the DSM process should also be used in the soil-process modelling in order to obtain two kinds of outputs: 1. the spatial distribution of the outputs of modelled soil process, and 2, the associated accuracy of the prediction. Contributions to this new area of discourse are welcomed.

Convenor – Florence Carre (Italy) florence.carre@jrc.it
Co-Convenor – Neil McKenzie (Australia) Neil.Mckenzie@csiro.au
Keynote speaker – Budiman Minasny

Budiman Minasny will speak about pedotransfer functions: their strengths, limits and extrapolability.

From Digital Soil Mapping to Digital Soil Assessment: identifying key gaps from fields to continents

4^th Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping

Rome, 24-26 May 2010

CNR Conference Room, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 7 – 00185 Roma

Further Information:

2010.digitalsoilmapping.org