Dirt Conference

Dec 14, 2018

Fostering collaboration with other North American Soil Science Societies, The Soil Science Society of America will host scientists, professionals, educators, and students at the SSSA International Soils Meeting. "Soils Across Latitudes" will be held Jan. 6-9, 2019, in San Diego, California in collaboration with the Canadian Society of Soil Science and the Mexican Society of Soil Science.

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Questions or suggestions regarding the San Diego meeting? Please visit our Frequently Asked Questions.
 

ANNUAL MEETING NEWS

  • The San Diego program will intentionally only be available via the free app and online; no be printed or PDF versions of the program will be available onsite. Create a personalized schedule through the online program scheduler today.

  • There's still time: register today!

  • Make your hotel reservation

  • Check out Tours & Workshops to add to your SSSA International Soils Meeting experience

  • See who is exhibiting

  • View the Program, which includes 890+ oral presentations, 500+ posters, 86 rapid-fire abstracts, Women in Science Workshop and Meet and Greet, Town Hall, soil texturing contest, trivia night, wine tasting, and so much more!

  • Inaugural Society-Wide Graduate Student Competition announced

  • Have soils-related art or a talent you want to display at the meeting? Contact Randy Southard at rjsouthard@ucdavis.edu to learn more about the Soils as Art-Soils is Art and Open Mic Night events
     

2019 San Diego Upcoming Dates and deadlines

       December 31  Online presentation uploading ends for oral presentations
                              (You must upload at the meeting after this date)

       January 6-9, 2019  SSSA International Soils Meeting

 

 

2019 Keynote SPEAKERS
 

Opening Keynote
 
Closing Keynote
 
Tom Vilsack Photo David Batker Photo
Tom Vilsack David Batker


Former United States Secretary of Agriculture 


Co-Founder

President and CEO,
U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC)

Earth Economics

“Climate Smart Agriculture Good
for the Farm and Good for the Land”
        "The Economics of Soil"       

 

 

2019 PLENARY SPEAKERS
 

SSSA Breakfast Plenary /
Nyle C. Brady Frontiers of Soil
Science Lectureship

 
Francis E. Clark Distinguished
Lectureship on Soil Biology

 
Soil Sustainability Lecture

 
Dan Richter Photo Kate Scow Photo Kathy Kellogg Johnson Photo
Dan Richter Kate Scow Kathy Kellogg Johnson


Professor of Soils and Ecology


Professor of Soil Science and Microbial Ecology


Chief Sustainability Officer

Nicholas School of the Environment,
Duke University

University of California, Davis

Kellogg Garden Products

"How Deep is Soil?" "Soil is a Living Thing:
Microbial Underpinnings of Soil Health"
"The Business of Soil,
Past Present and Future"

 

 

2019 ASF LECTURESHIP SPEAKERS
 

William H. Patrick, Jr.
Memorial Lectureship

 
Leo M. Walsh Soil Fertility
Distinguished Lectureship

 

Sergei A. Wilde Distinguished
Lectureship on Forest Soils
 

William Horwath Photo?

Cynthia Grant Photo?

Helga Van Miegroet Photo?

William Horwath Cynthia Grant Helga Van Miegroet


Professor and Chairman of the
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources


Former Research Scientist in Soil Fertility


Professor Emerita in Wildland
Soils and Biogeochemistry

University of California, Davis

AAFC Brandon Research Centre from 1986 to 2015

Utah State University

"Wetlands and Society" "Soil Fertility Management: Genesis to Re-genesis" "To Lead or To Follow?
How Should Wildland Soil
Scientists Prepare for Future Challenges?"

 


By Ben Faber
Author - Advisor

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