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

Tuesday, November 3, 2009: 10:00 AM-2:45 PM

Convention Center, Room 411, Fourth Floor

Presidings:

Robert Schwartz and Ole Wendroth

Organizers:

Robert C. Schwartz , Ole Wendroth , Robert Lascano and Timothy R. Green

10:00 AM

Introductory remarks

10:05 AM

Physical Controls of Soil Moisture Across Space and Time Scales – A Grand Challenge Problem and Opportunity in Soil Hydrology for the Next Decade.
Binayak Mohanty, Texas A&M Univ.

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10:25 AM

Geoelectrical Investigation of Seasonal Moister Variations a Vertisol.
John A. Dunbar, Baylor University

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10:45 AM

Soil Characteristics and Cracking Behavior of a Vertisol Catena.
Takele Mitiku Dinka, Texas A&M Univ.; Cristine L. S. 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

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11:15 AM

Soil Moisture Sequestration in Pinyon – Juniper Woodland, Induced by Soil Water Repellency.
David A. Robinson, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; Inma Lebron, Univ. of the West Indies; Ronald Ryel, Utah State Univ.; Scott B. Jones, Utah State Univ.

11:35 AM

Dynamics of Very near-Surface Water Contents in An Arid Setting.
Michael H. Young, Desert Res. Inst.; Lynn Fenstermaker, Desert Res. Inst.; Jianting Zhu, Desert Res. Inst.

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11:50 AM

Temporal Dynamics of Soil Water Under Corn, Soybean, and Kura Clover.
Tyson E. Ochsner, Oklahoma State Univ.; Rodney T. Venterea, USDA-ARS

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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

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1:25 PM

Scaling Analysis of Irregularly Sampled Soil Properties Using Second Generation Wavelets.
Asim Biswas, Univ. of Saskatchewan; Bing Cheng Si, Univ. of Saskatchewan

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1:40 PM

Temporal Stability of Soil Water Content Patterns in Measurements and Simulations: Manifestation and Applications.
Andrey K. Guber, USDA-ARS

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2:00 PM

Do Soil Water Measurements Reveal Multidimensional Flow Processes along Soil Catenae? ! # @ $.
Timothy R. 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 S. Campbell, Decagon Devices, Inc.; Kelsey Dunne, Decagon Devices, Inc.; Douglas R. Cobos, Decagon Devices, Inc.; David J. Brown, Washington State Univ.; David R. Huggins, USDA-ARS

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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

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2:45 PM

Adjourn

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