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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Exploring a Dynamic Soil Information System: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26170.
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Appendix A

Workshop Agenda

EXPLORING A DYNAMIC SOIL INFORMATION SYSTEM

TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021

(All times in Eastern Time, United States and Canada)

11:00 Welcome
Bruno Basso, Michigan State University
11:15 Keynote Talks
Innovative Technology for Managing Soils
Joe Cornelius, Gates Ag One
Soil in Agricultural Systems
Jerry Hatfield, U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Agricultural Research Service (retired)
The Importance of Data Archiving and Data Integration
Alison Hoyt, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
12:15 Q&A with Drs. Cornelius, Hatfield, and Hoyt
12:45 Break
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Exploring a Dynamic Soil Information System: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26170.
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1:05 Panel Discussion: Why Do We Need a Dynamic Soil Information System?
David Babson, U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy
Jim Dobrowolski, USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Matt Kane, National Science Foundation
David Lindbo, USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service
John Mesko, National Corn Growers Association
Stephen Wood, The Nature Conservancy
Moderated by Bruno Basso, Michigan State University
2:15 Lessons Learned from Listening Sessions
Alison Marklein, University of California, Riverside
2:45 Break
2:55 Panel Discussion: What Soil Information Systems Do We Have Now?
Mark Farrell, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (prerecorded)
Drew Kinney, USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service
Luca Montanarella, European Commission Joint Research Centre
Rik van den Bosch, International Soil Reference and Information Centre–World Soil Information
Samantha Weintraub, National Ecological Observatory Network
Skye Wills, USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service
Moderated by Charles Rice, Kansas State University
3:55 Preview of Second Day
4:00 Adjourn

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 2021

11:00 Fireside Chat with Industry Representatives
Teddy Bekele, Land O’Lakes, Inc.
Adrian Percy, UPL Limited
Karsten Temme, Pivot Bio
Moderated by Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft Azure Global
11:45 Breakout Session 1
Topic A: Measurements and Sampling and Archiving
  • What should be measured? Where and when should it be measured?
  • What protocols or standardizations would be useful?
  • What other parameters need to be collected routinely (e.g., temperature, rainfall, land management practices)?
  • Collection and preservation of physical samples
  • Linking physical samples to digital data
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Exploring a Dynamic Soil Information System: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26170.
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Topic B: Collection and Curation (including cyber infrastructure)
  • Harmonization of data and methodology
  • Semantic and ontology structures
  • Data models
  • Avoiding the proliferation of standards
  • Internet of Things
  • Cloud infrastructure for data storage and data processing
  • Data repository federations
  • Security and privacy issues
  • Machine learning tools in databases
  • Data platforms
Topic C: Data Analysis and Models
  • Machine learning algorithms for gap filling and spatial inference
  • Process modeling
  • Decision support tools
  • Meta-analyses
1:00 Break
1:15 Breakout Session 2
Topics A, B, and C repeated
2:30 Adjourn

THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2021

11:00 Welcome
Bruno Basso, Michigan State University
11:10 Reports from Breakout Groups
1:00 Break
1:30 Continuing Engagement Opportunities
Kathe Todd-Brown, University of Florida
1:40 Synthesis Session
2:15 Concluding Remarks
2:30 Adjourn
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Exploring a Dynamic Soil Information System: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26170.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Exploring a Dynamic Soil Information System: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26170.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Exploring a Dynamic Soil Information System: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26170.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Exploring a Dynamic Soil Information System: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26170.
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As a living substrate, soil is critical to the function of Earth's geophysical and chemical properties. Soil also plays a major role in several human activities, including farming, forestry, and environmental remediation. Optimizing those activities requires a clear understanding of different soils, their function, their composition and structure, and how they change over time and from place to place. Although the importance of soil to Earth's biogeochemical cycles and to human activities is recognized, the current systems in place for monitoring soil properties - including physical, chemical, and, biological characteristics - along with measures of soil loss through erosion, do not provide an accurate picture of changes in the soil resource over time. Such an understanding can only be developed by collecting comprehensive data about soils and the various factors that influence them in a way that can be updated regularly and made available to researchers and others who wish to understand soils and make decisions based on those data.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened key stakeholders in a workshop on March 2-4, 2021, to discuss the development of a dynamic soil information system. Workshop discussions explored possiblities to dynamically and accurately monitor soil resources nationally with the mutually supporting goals of (1) achieving a better understanding of causal influences on observed changes in soil and interactions of soil cycling of nutrients and gases with earth processes, and (2) providing accessible, useful, and actionable information to land managers and others. This publication summarizes the presentation and discussion of the workshop.

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