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8 Concluding Session
8 Concluding Session
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A dynamic soil information system also offers value to fundamental planetary science, Tiedje said, helping to test hypotheses about scale, trajectories, and the lithosphere and providing data to study biological, chemical, and physical interactions, as well as ecological and evolutionary changes and the mechanisms behind them. Referring to the keynote presentation by Jerry Hatfield, Tiedje then spoke about the functions of soil.
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Some of the most important learnings from the workshop presentations, he said, relate to the challenges associated with dynamic soil information systems. Those challenges include finding continuous funding for monitoring, getting sufficient staffing for soil science and data analytics, solving various issues related to data privacy and security, harmonizing data and developing common methods for sampling and analysis, and capturing spatial and temporal data at varying scale.
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The soil sciences community can learn from this lesson as well, he said. Tiedje also relayed a story about the importance of audiences beyond the scientific community to building momentum toward a dynamic soil information system.
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Data fidelity is important, Vargas said, and not only the fidelity of data from point measurements and the laboratory, but also the fidelity of data from value-added products such as maps and machine learning products. Finally, work to unify the soil sciences community will be particularly challenging, especially FIGURE 8-1 Vision for the field of metagenomics when it was developing.
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CONTINUING ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES For the workshop participants who wished to remain engaged with soil data and soil informatics, Todd-Brown listed a number of opportunities and resources that were described during the workshop. She began with a list of U.S.-based resources, which was also posted on Slack:
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Soil Moisture Active and Passive5 • National Geochemistry Survey database6 • Long-Term Ecological Research Network7 • Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.8 • National Ecological Observatory Network9 Participants from Slack also added: • Northeastern Soil Monitoring Cooperative10 • NASA's Carbon Monitoring System11 Next, Todd-Brown offered some data resources, beginning with websites with soil data: • Soils Revealed12 • International Soil Reference and Information Centre Soil Data Hub13 • SoilGrids web portal14 • European Space Agency's WORLDSOILS15 • Soils 4 Africa16 • OpenGeoHub -- OpenLandMap17 Participants from Slack also suggested: • iSDASoils18 • Australian Microbiome Initiative19 • Sistema de Información de Suelos de Latinoamérica y el Caribe20 1 See http://ncss-tech.github.io/soilDB/docs. 2 See https://microbiomedata.org.
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Joint Genome Institute, specifically its Functional Genomics Database for Plant Microbiome Studies35 and its National Microbiome Data Collaborative,36 which has a trellis interface, a data visualization tool for exploring data collection. A participant on Slack also noted that the Argonne National Laboratory has many decades of archived soils and that DOE's Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for Virtual Ecosystem database37 could hold soil data.
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The Soil Science Society of America, the Ecological Society of America, the Soil Ecology Society, and the Geological Society of America are slightly smaller but host small groups and conferences to discuss soil informatics. Two semiannual meetings hosted by the Earth Science Information Partnership and the Research Data Alliance44 are somewhat more focused on soil data and soil components specifically.
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Basso closed by thanking the various individuals and organizations that made the workshop possible -- the members of the workshop organizing committee; National Academies staff; workshop speakers, panelists, and audience members; and the workshop's funders, including the National Science Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service, and DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy, with additional support from the National Academy of Sciences' Arthur L Day Fund and the National Corn Growers Association.
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