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Programme Thematic Day ’14

Soil-plant interactions in a changing world

DATE: Friday December 5th, 2014 (9:00 – 12:30)
VENUE: The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium (Rubenszaal), Hertogsstraat 1 Rue Ducale, Brussels
REGISTRATION: see below or follow this link

» Download the book of abstracts here!

Soil, plants and chemistry

09:00-09:20 ‘Capacity of microorganisms to decompose organic carbon affected by an increasing content of reactive mineral phases in a podzolic soil chronosequence.’ Vermeire et al. (UCL)

09:20-09:40 ‘Calibration of δD n-alkane as paleo-climate proxy in the DeepCHALLA archive.’ De Wispelaere et al. (UGent)

09:40-10:00 ‘Effects of different types of fertilizers on phosphorus availability in a soil with low P content.’ Barbieux et al. (ULg)

 Coffee break (30 min) + poster session

 Soils and plant roots

10:30-10:45 ‘Can root distribution be related to soil water potential in an irrigated ‘Conference’ pear orchard?’ Janssens et al. (Soil Service of Belgium)

10:45-11:00 ‘A review of the effects of plant roots on concentrated flow erosion.’ Vannoppen et al. (KULeuven)

11:00-11:15 ‘Can electrical resistivity tomography offer us a dynamic view on what happens in the soil-plant continuum?’ Garré et al. (ULg)

11:15-11:30 ‘Differential hydrological strategies: a stable isotope perspective on trees water sources.’ Hervé-Fernández et al. (UGent)

11:30-11:45 ‘Improving macroscopic modelling of water and osmotic stresses on root water uptake.’ Jorda Guerra et al. (KULeuven)
11:45-12:15 Invited talk: ‘Water relations in the soil-plant system: what can we learn from functional-structural plant models.’ Lobet et al. (ULg)

Registration of participants
Extra poster contributions still possible. (Poster guidelines: max A0, portrait)
Deadline 01/12/2014
In the framework of the international year of soils (IYS), poster contributions announcing activities for the IYS are encouraged next to the regular research posters.

2015 International year of soils

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SSSB Thematic day 2014: Plant-soil interactions in a changing world

The uptake of water and nutrients by plants from the soil are key processes controlling mass and energy fluxes within the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. Small-scale interactions at the soil-plant interface may have global scale and long-term effects on water, carbon, nitrogen and energy balances. Understanding these interactions, their effect on rooting behavior and on soil characteristics, and clarifying their manifestation at ecosystem scale is critical for predicting impacts of global change and climate variability on carbon, nutrient and hydrologic cycles. For the SSSB thematic day, we solicit investigations unraveling parts of this fascinating interplay between plants and soils. 

The SSSB thematic day is organized on the World Soil Day, a day to celebrate the importance of soil as a critical component of the natural system and as a v

ital contributor to human wellbeing.

Date: December 5th, 2014

Location: The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium (Rubenszaal), Hertogsstraat 1 Rue Ducale,  B-1000 BRUSSELS

Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1K9fgOnEOfn-26h9207r-tFjK311sgtccUaeA0_627gs/viewform?usp=send_form

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Two-day excursion to the International Soil Reference and Information Centre and to the periglacial soilscapes around Wageningen | June 2-3, 2014

Dear all,

Hereby I am happy to announce the 2014 excursion of the Soil Science Society of Belgium:

Two-day excursion to the International Soil Reference and Information Centre and to the periglacial soilscapes around Wageningen

June 2-3, 2014 

Kindly find the invitation and registration form attached to this email. Please register before MAY 5 if you want to join.

Best regards,

Karen Vancampenhout

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Young Soil Scientists days 2014

Every year the Soil Science Society of Belgium is organizing a Day for the Young Soil Scientists.
The idea is that young soil scientists from Belgium get to know each other, learn about new research initiatives undertaken by the different research groups, both in Belgium and abroad.
Last year we have developed a new concept for the Young Scientists Day so as to accommodate many more participants and hence make the meeting more attractive for all.

Venue: Royal Academy, Hertogstraat 1, Brussels
Date: 26/02/2014 from 13:30 – 17:30

All research groups are invited to send abstracts for ONE oral presentation and as many as possible posters.

The scientific programme

  • A limited number of oral presentations: one presentation per research group
    (15 min. presentation + 5 min. discussion each)
  • A session of synthetic poster presentations; there is no limit to the number of poster presentations!
    (3 min. each = 2 slides each)
    Also this year’s M.Sc. thesis students are warmly encouraged to make a poster on their actual thesis work, with special attention to the research question they are trying to answer and the methods of their research. The results may be subject of a paper during the Young Scientists day Anno 2015!
  • Poster session with drinks served.

Subscriptions and abstracts

Subscription for this event is possible until Friday January 31, 2014 by filling out the online registration form.

The submission of abstracts will expire at February 9th, 2014.
Please send your title and abstract in English in time to Giles Colinet (Gilles.Colinet@ulg.ac.be). Don’t forget to mention the co-authors and their affiliations.

Looking forward to an overwhelming response, especially from our new generation soil scientists, we send you our best wishes.

Yours sincerely,

Martine Swerts, President SSSB
Gilles Colinet, Secretary-Treasurer SSSB

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50 years of sharing knowledge in soil science for worldwide sustainable development

Date: 2013-12-05

Time:  9.15 am – 5.30 pm

Location: Het Pand, Onderbergen 1, 9000 Gent, Zaal Rector Vermeylen

Remark:

More info:
On 5 December 2013 the 50th anniversary of the international training programme in Soil Science at Ghent University will be celebrated with a thematic day entitled:

’50 years of sharing knowledge in soil science for worldwide sustainable development’

Registration is possible through the following link (until November 5th, 2013):

Download the programme here.

Route: Het Pand – How to get there?