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Symposium--Application of Soil Physics to Resolving Environmental Problems: Honoring the Impact of Martinus Th. Van Genuchten: I

Monday, November 2, 2009: 9:55 AM-5:15 PM
Convention Center, Room 407, Fourth Floor
Presidings:
Peter Shouse , Todd Skaggs and Attila Nemes
Organizers:
Peter Shouse , Peter Wierenga , Donald Nielsen , Attila Nemes and Todd Skaggs
9:55 AM
Introductory Remarks
10:00 AM
The Impact of Rien Van Genuchten.
Peter Wierenga, Univ. of Arizona
Audio File Recorded presentation
10:15 AM
Rien's Many Contributions to Numerical Modeling of Water Flow and Solute Transport in Soils.
Jirka Simunek, Univ. of California, Riverside
Audio File Recorded presentation
10:30 AM
Hydraulic Functions: The Good, the Bad and the Challenges.
Marcel G. Schaap, Univ. of Arizona
Audio File Recorded presentation
10:45 AM
Estimating Van Genuchten Soil Water Retention Parameters Using Remote Sensing.
Binayak Mohanty, Texas A&M Univ.
Audio File Recorded presentation
11:00 AM
Estimating Soil Hydraulic Properties From Pedotransfer Functions and the Mualem-Van Genuchten Parameterisation: Past, Present and Future.
Harry Vereecken, Inst. of Chemistry and Dynamics of the Geosphere, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Audio File Recorded presentation
11:15 AM
Pedotransferfunctions and the Functional Characterization of Soils.
Johannes Bouma, Wageningen Univ. & Res. Centre; Henk Wosten, Alterra, Wageningen Univ. and Res. Centre
Audio File Recorded presentation
11:30 AM
The Living Space of n and Alpha.
Hans-Joerg Vogel, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Res.; Olaf Ippisch, Univ. of Heidelberg
Audio File Recorded presentation
11:45 AM
Discussion
12:00 PM
Break
1:30 PM
Will There Be Soil Physics After Rien?.
Pieter H. Groenevelt, Univ. of Guelph
Audio File Recorded presentation
1:45 PM
Listening to Imbibition and Drainage - Bursts and Jumps at the Front.
Dani Or, ETHZ; Franziska Möbius, ETHZ
Audio File Recorded presentation
2:00 PM
Soil Moisture as the Global Environmental Integrator.
Jan Hopmans, Univ. of California, Davis; Harry Vereecken, Agrosphere; David A. Robinson, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Audio File Recorded presentation
2:15 PM
Spatio-Temporal Soil Water Processes at the Field Scale.
Ole Wendroth, Univ. of Kentucky; Riley Jason Walton, Univ. of Kentucky
Audio File Recorded presentation
2:30 PM
Water Flow and Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Soils: Recent Advances in in Situ Measurements and Data Analysis.
Gerrit H. de Rooij, Wageningen Univ. & Res. Centre; Esther Bloem, Bioforsk; Frank Stagnitti, Deakin Univ.; Olaf A. Cirpka, Univ. of Tuebingen; Franck A.N. Hogervorst, Wageningen Univ. & Res. Centre
Audio File Recorded presentation
2:45 PM
Soil Moisture Estimation at High Resolution Using Radar and Optical Imagery.
Jan M.H. Hendrickx, New Mexico Inst. Min. & Tech.; Sung-ho Hong, New Mexico Tech; Diana Romero, New Mexico Inst. Min. & Tech.
Audio File Recorded presentation
3:00 PM
Discussion
3:15 PM
Break
3:30 PM
Contributions of Rien to Understanding and Managing Salt-Affected Soils.
T. H. Skaggs, U.S. Salinity Lab., USDA-ARS
3:45 PM
Modeling the Effects of Water and Salinity Stresses On Evapotranspiration and Crop Yield.
Laosheng Wu, Univ. of California, Riverside; W. Chen, Univ. of California, Riverside; J. Oster, Univ. of California, Riverside; H. Xiong, Univ. of California, Riverside; Manzoor Qadir, ICARDA, Intl. Center for Agricultural Res. in the Dry Areas; J. Letey, Univ. of California, Riverside
4:00 PM
Effect of Saline Water Irrigation and Manuring On Available Water Content and Salinity of Soil.
Bouya Ahmed Ould Ahmed Sr., Tottori Univ.; Mitsuhiro Inoue, JAPAN,Tottori Univ.
Audio File Recorded presentation
4:15 PM
Soil Physics and the Wise Use of Tropical Peatlands.
Henk Wosten, Alterra, Wageningen Univ. and Res. Centre
Audio File Recorded presentation
4:30 PM
Tracer Transport in Soils and Shallow Groundwater: Model Abstraction with Modern Tools.
Yakov A. Pachepsky, USDA-ARS; Andrey Guber, USDA-ARS; Timothy Gish, USDA-ARS; Alex Yakirevich, J. Blaustein Institutes for Desert Res.; Mikhail Kouznetsov, J. Blaustein Institutes for Desert Res.; Martinus T. van Genuchten, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ; Jirka Simunek, Univ. of California; Thomas Nicholson, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Ralph Cady, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Audio File Recorded presentation
4:45 PM
From the Danube to the Volga: The Many Ways Rien Van Genuchten Contributed to the Advancement of Soil Physics in Central and Eastern Europe.
Attila Nemes, USDA-ARS
5:00 PM
Discussion
5:15 PM
Adjourn
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