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Pre and Post Congress Tours
WCSS
Philadelphia, Pa
July 2006
• Tours from the Redwood forests to
the New York Island. From the
cold slopes of Alaska to the tropical
beaches of Cuba. Forested
mountain sites, the grannies of the
mid-west, the deserts of the
southwest, the red clays of Georgia,
the mixed land uses of the
Northeast with many cultural stops
along the way.
Soils, Geomorphology, and
Land Use in the
Southeastern U.S.
July 16-24, 2006.
• This tour will examine the soils, geology,
and major land uses found in the states
of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North
Carolina and stop at famous historical
sites.
• All soil stops will contain pits and
full characterization data.
• A historian will accompany the bus to
lecture along the way.
Midwest and Mississippi
Valley
Pre-conference
(9-10 days)
• The Midwest field trip will
begin in Chicago, Illinois,
end in St. Louis, Missouri,
and will include stops and
discussions focusing on
geomorphology, soils,
agriculture, urbanization
and cultural history. Soil
pits will be examined each
day.
Cryosols and Arctic Tundra
Ecosystem
Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay Alaska
Pre Congress
July 1-7, 2006
• The tour will take participants to travel
through the boreal forest and alpine
zones, to view the effects of aspect and
landscape on permafrost distribution and
pattern grounds.
• Across the Brooks Range into the arctic
tundra to examine the cryoturbated
tundra soils on Arctic Foothills and the
Arctic Coastal Plain. Infrastructure
design to overcome potential problems
caused by permafrost in the oil field on
the arctic coast will be studied.
Mexico, Biodiversity and
Origin Center”:
Environmental, productive
and cultural diversity from
the Central Plateau to
Mexican Gulf
Pre Congress 7 days
• This tour will visit sites with
agro-ecological and cultural
diversity from Mexico City
to Veracruz. Alexander Von
Humboldt, explored a similar
transect and wrote that in
two weeks, he found larger
biodiversity than he did in
five years of exploration
through Europe.
The Desert Southwest
USA Tour
Post Congress
July 16 to 24, 2006
• The tour will focus on desert
pedology, geomorphology,
geoarchaeology, geology,
and ecology of the American
Southwest between El Paso,
Texas and Las Vegas,
Nevada.
Present Agriculture in
Cuba
Pre and Post Congress
7 days
• Urban Agriculture
• Rice Plantations
• Rice Experimental Station
• Production and use of
biofertilizers
• Sugar Cane Plantation.
• Farewell Party “Noche Cubana”
Alabama & Georgia Circle
Tour
Pre and/or Post
7 Days
Some of the 7 terrace levels
Soil on poultry farm (manure
application)
Providence Canyon (erosion) in
Georgia) and cultural stop in Plains
(Jimmy Carter Center) and (Plinthic
Ultisol).
Soils stop (Spodosol) on the east
side of the Okeefenokee Swamp and
10th soils stop (Albaqualf?)
Also Vertisol & Inceptisol.
Soils, nutrient
management and water
quality in the northeastern
US
Post Congress
July 17-22
• This tour provides an in-depth
introduction to research,
management and policy issues
surrounding water quality and
agricultural nutrient
management in the United
States, with a specific emphasis
on agricultural phosphorus
issues in the mid-Atlantic and
northeastern US.
Pacific Northwest USA
Post Congress
July 16-22
• Pacific Northwest region of the
United States features soils and
landforms influenced by major
recent geologic events: eruption of
Mount Mazama (present-day Crater
Lake) and Mount Saint Helens; and
cataclysmic floods from glacial
Lake Missoula.
• This tour includes vistas of snowcapped mountains and barren
deserts, travel through productive
forests and across fertile farmlands,
and stops to taste the wine and to
learn about early settlement in this
region.
Northern California Soils
and Land use Tour
Post Congress
July 16-23
• Marin Headlands National Recreation
Area, Muir Woods, Fort Ross, Earthquake
walk. Visit Pygmy forest sites for soil
pits, Mendocino headlands for native
grasses.
• View Serpentinite derived soil at
Hopland, visit watershed project, soil at
Fetzer winery followed by wine
tasting/hot pepper eating.
• Geothermal electricity
• Acid-sulfate reclaimed soils
• On to Reno Nevada!
New England?
Paleosols, Paleoclimate and
Paleoatmospheric CO2;
Paleozoic Paleosols of
Central Pennsylvania
Pre Congress
July 6-8
• This trip provides an overview of
Paleozoic paleosols in central
Pennsylvania, USA, developed in
ancient alluvium during an interval
of geologic time spanning from the
late Ordovician to the late
Mississippian periods (from 449 to
325 million years ago).
Soils and Physiography of
the Rocky Mountain
Region
Post Congress
July 16-21
PRECISION FARMING AND
MIDWEST AGRICULTURE
Post Congress
JULY 17-21, 2006
• The tour will expose participants to how sitespecific precision agriculture is being practiced
in the context of the Midwest Corn-Soybean
Belt and to key supporting organizations and
facilities.
• Soils specialists from universities or NRCS will
be on board the busses to describe soils of
interest en route. Strategically located soil
pits, deep cores, or road cuts will be highlighted
in brief stops periodically. This could also
include watershed management sites as
appropriate.
• We also plan to include discussion of geologic
history and human history of the areas covered
by the tour. A complete guide packet of maps
and regional information relevant to the tour
will be prepared for participants.
Hawaii?
Acid Sulfate Soils of U.S.
Mid-Atlantic/Chesapeake
Bay Region
Pre Congress
July 6-8
• This tour is to bring together soil
scientists with a strong interest in acid
sulfate soils to demonstrate the kinds of
acid sulfate soils, and societal
environmental problems related to them,
in the region surrounding the Delaware
and Chesapeake Bay. A primary goal will
be to show the wide variety of acid
sulfate soils (potential, active, and postactive) that occur in this region.
Potential acid sulfate soils, primarily
Sulfaquents and Sulfihemist, occur as
tidal marsh soils and as sub-aqueous
soils in shallow bays.
Semiarid Agroecosystem
Management Systems
(Irrigated and Dryland) in
the Central and Southern
Great Plains
Pre Congress
June 29- July 8
• Semiarid Agroecosystem Management
Systems (Irrigated and Dryland) in the
Central and Southern United States
Great Plains. The area is one of the
largest dryland agriculture regions in the
world.
• Tour objectives are to present basic
principles and specific technologies for
soil and water management for a range of
agroecosystems, and to see the
technologies .being used under in the
field.
Day Tours
There is a broad mix of day tours
for the participants to take part
in which will look at soils,
agriculture, land use and land use
change, urban concerns and many
culture sites within a day’s drive
of Philadelphia.
• Stroud Water Research Center
• Natural Lands Trust-Stroud
Preserve
• The Rodale Institute of
Regenerative Agriculture New
Frontiers in Soil survey
• Klingerstown ARS Watershed
• Honey Hollow Conservation and
Peddlers Village
• The du Pont Family Legacy
• Beltsville ARS Site and Goddard
Space Fight Center
• Cedar Meadows Farm, Lancaster
County PA
• Soil Based Wastewater Treatment
Technology and the Urban/Rural
Interface
• New Jersey Pine Barrens Soil
Ecology