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523 Historical Links Between Soil Science and Geology

Oral Session
Z04 S205.1 Council on the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Soils
Monday, 6 October 2008: 9:00 AM-4:40 PM
George R. Brown Convention Center, 360AB

Presiding:
Edward Landa and Benjamin Cohen
9:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
9:05 AM
523-1
History Matters: Links between Environmental History and Environmental Science.
Martin Melosi, University of Houston
9:50 AM
523-2
Soil Geomorphology in the United States.
Vance Holliday, University of Arizona
10:05 AM
Break
10:20 AM
523-4
Geologic Mentoring of Early Soil Surveyors.
Eric Brevik, Dickinson State Univ.
10:35 AM
523-5
Historical Descriptions of Soils and Landscapes of the Texas Gulf Coast.
Darrell Schulze, Purdue Univ.
10:50 AM
523-6
Interrelationship of Pedologic and Geological Mapping.
Ahmet Ruhi Mermut, University of Saskatchewan; Dan Yaalon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
11:05 AM
523-7
The Pre-History of Soil Science: Jethro Tull, the Invention of the Seed Drill and the Foundations of Modern Agriculture.
Laura B. Sayre, Yale Univ.
11:20 AM
Break
11:35 AM
523-8
The Ties That Bind: A Glimpse at the Life and Career of William Edgar Tharp.
Edward Landa, USGS
11:50 AM
523-9
William Edgar Tharp and Hugh Hammond Bennett: Early Soil Survey Interpretations for Agricultural Progress.
John Douglas Helms, USDA-NRCS
12:05 PM
523-10
Marie Tharp: The Lady Who Showed Us the Ocean Floors.
Gary North, North Arrow, Ltd.; US Geological Survey (retired)
12:25 PM
523-11
What the Antebellum Farmer Knew and Why Anyone Cared: A Story for Today about the Moral Basis from Which Soil Science and Geology Were Born.
Benjamin Cohen, University of Virginia
12:40 PM
523-12
The International Humic Substances Society (IHSS) as a Link Between Geology, Hydrology and Soil Science through Organic Matter Studies: A Historical Perspective.
Christian Feller, IRD - Institut pour la Recherche et le Developpement; Yona Chen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Michel Brossard, IRD - Institut pour la Recherche et le Developpement; Edward Landa, USGS; Jean Trichet, Université d'Orléans
1:00 PM
Break
1:15 PM
523-13
The Common Histories of SSSA and The Clay Minerals Society.
Joseph W. Stucki, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
1:35 PM
523-14
The Role of Lysimeters in the Development of Our Understanding of Water Dynamics in Ecosystems.
Michael Goss, University of Guelph; Wilfried Ehlers, Georg-August University
1:55 PM
523-15
Agriculture and the Erosion of Civilizations.
David Montgomery, University of Washington
2:10 PM
Concluding Remarks
2:20 PM
Adjourn
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