Agrogeophysics is an emerging research field. What are the applications, potential and future research needs? Come and discover with us.
About this Event
The challenges in agriculture are enormous. We have to produce enough food while safe-guarding our environment for future generations. A better understanding of the nature of underlying processes and interactions in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum of our agro-ecosystems is crucial. Geophysical tools have the potential to characterize and quantify these processes non-invasively from plot to landscape scale. Nevertheless, a number of challenges remain for geophysical results to be fully exploited by decision-makers and other scientific communities. In this seminar, we will explore ongoing research in the field of agrogeophysics, discuss potential applications and highlight future research needs.
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Programme
Thursday 30/1/2020
19:30 Pre-conference dinner in Brussels (WOLF )
Friday 31/1/2020
| 8:15-9:00 | Registration of participants & coffee | |
| 9:00-9:10 | Welcome word | |
| 9:10-9:40 | Mihai Cimpoiascu | A quantitative link between undisturbed soil pore architecture and time-lapse electrical resistivity measurements of pore fluid content |
| 9:40-10:10 | Sathyan Rao | Studying signatures of roots from non-invasive electrical measurements |
| 10:10-10:40 | Edmundo Placencia | Spectral induced polarization signatures of soils enriched in century-old biochar: Implications for hydric behaviour characterization of agroecosystems |
| 10:40-11:10 | Coffee break | |
| 11:10-11:40 | Guillaume Blanchy | Geophysical monitoring for crop phenotyping |
| 11:40-12:10 | Benjamin Mary | The GROWING project (Geophysical Root Observations for Water SavING): Background and objectives |
| 12:10-12:40 | Eve Daly | The role of geophysics in sustainable agriculture and the protection of groundwater resources in Ireland |
| 12:40-14:00 | Lunch break + posters | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Cosimo Brogi | Geophysics-based soil mapping for improved modelling of spatial variability in crop growth and yield |
| 14:30-15:00 | Lidong Ren | The use of EMI to assess soil compaction |
| 15:00-16:00 | Coffee break + discussion future collaborations |
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| 16:00-16:30 | Christian Von Hebel | Discovering field-specific management zones incorporating ground-based electromagnetic induction and drone-based crop data |
| 16:30-17:00 | Sarah Garré | Geophysics for agriculture? To the roots! |
| 17:00-19:00 | Closing drink and finger food |
*Presentation format: 20 min + 10 min discussion
Poster presentations by David O’Leary, Russell Swift, Adriaan Vanderhasselt, Maximilian Weigand and Pieter Janssens.
Venue
Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Auditorium PhV, Building 48 on campus map
Avenue Maréchal Juin
5030 Gembloux
Belgium
Parking: 3 (or Parking senghor 7 also nearby)
Train station at 10 min. by foot
Accomodation
Nearby hotel: Hôtel les 3 Clés
Easy train connections from Namur (ca. 10min) or Brussels (ca. 30min) where options are available for accomodation.
Organizers
Sarah GARRE – Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
with support from
ENVITAM doctoral school
Soil Science Society of Belgium (SSSB) – Topical committee II. Soil physics and hydrology
