200 Symposium--Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Soil Water and Their Relations to Biotic and Abiotic Processes at Different Scales: I

Oral Session
S01 Soil Physics
Biotic, abiotic and anthropogenic soil processes interact over a range of temporal and spatial scales affecting fluxes of water, solutes, and heat, and many biogeochemical processes, e.g., transformation and biomass development. We welcome contributions that investigate the influences of agricultural management or natural processes (e.g. shrink-swell and reconsolidation, burrowing animals, plant rooting) on soil physical properties and system states as well as related processes at their respective space-time scale combinations. Contributions should illustrate the importance of their specific observational and modeling scales and discuss what experimental and modeling adaptations are necessary to transfer knowledge between scales.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009: 10:00 AM-2:45 PM
Convention Center, Room 411, Fourth Floor

Presidings:
Robert Schwartz and Ole Wendroth
Organizers:
Robert Schwartz , Ole Wendroth , Robert Lascano and Timothy Green
10:00 AM
Introductory remarks
10:45 AM
Soil Characteristics and Cracking Behavior of a Vertisol Catena.
Takele Dinka, Texas A&M Univ.; Cristine Morgan, Texas A&M Univ.; Andrea Sz. Kishné, Texas A&M Univ., AgriLife Res.
11:00 AM
Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Water Fluxes in Paddy Rice Systems.
Manon Janssen, Univ. Rostock; Bernd Lennartz, Univ. Rostock; Lin Lin, Chinese Academy of Sciences
11:15 AM
Soil Moisture Sequestration in Pinyon – Juniper Woodland, Induced by Soil Water Repellency.
David Robinson, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; Inmaculada Lebron, Univ. of the West Indies; Ronald Ryel, Utah State Univ.; Scott Jones, Utah State Univ.
11:35 AM
Dynamics of Very near-Surface Water Contents in An Arid Setting.
Michael Young, Desert Res. Inst.; Lynn Fenstermaker, Desert Res. Inst.; Jianting Zhu, Desert Res. Inst.
11:50 AM
12:05 PM
Break
1:00 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:05 PM
Scale as the Common Language for Soil Variations Revealed with Geophysics, Biophysics, and Remore Sensing.
Dennis Timlin, USDA-ARS, Crop Systems and Global Change Lab.; Yakov Pachepsky, USDA-ARS, BA-ANRI-EMSL; David Fleisher, USDA-ARS, Crop Systems and Global Change Lab.; Rose Marie Shillito, Univ. of Maryland
2:00 PM
Do Soil Water Measurements Reveal Multidimensional Flow Processes along Soil Catenae? ! # @ $.
Timothy Green, USDA-ARS; Robert H. Erskine, USDA-ARS; Michael R. Murphy, USDA-ARS; Liwang Ma, USDA-ARS; Gale H. Dunn, USDA-ARS; Quan-Xiao Fang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2:15 PM
Insights Into Plant Water Use through Combining Soil Moisture and Morphology.
Colin Campbell, Decagon Devices, Inc.; Kelsey Dunne, Decagon Devices, Inc.; Douglas Cobos, Decagon Devices, Inc.; David Brown, Washington State Univ.; David Huggins, USDA-ARS
2:30 PM
Impact of Root An Soil Hydraulic Properties On Water Flow Variability at the Plant Scale.
Mathieu Javaux, Agrosphere, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH; Jan Vanderborght, Agrosphere, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH; Valentin Couvreur, Univ. catholique de Louvain; Harry Vereecken, Agrosphere, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH
2:45 PM
Adjourn
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