Programme young soil scientists’ day, April, 1, 2015
Royal Academy of Science and the Arts (Brussels), Rubens room
12.00-13.30: SSSB Board meeting (Justus Lipsius room, for SSSB Board members)
13.30-14.00: Registration and putting up posters for the Day of the Young Soil Scientist
14.00-14.15: General Assembly SSSB
14.15-14.45: Pedogenic thresholds determine Polynesian land-use decisions and agricultural productivity on volcanic islands – Prof. O. Chadwick University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
14.45-15.00: Sensitivity of mineral dissolution rates to physical weathering : A modeling approach. Emanuel Opolot*, Peter Finke – Ghent University, Department of Geology and Soil Science
15.00-15.30 : Short presentation of the posters by the authors in 2 minutes each: Gauthier Lequeue, Tran Thi Thu Dung, Sophie Pierreux, Yengwe Jones, Inga Tarasenko, Zimin Li, Rose Paque, Benoit Pereira
15.30-16.00: Coffee break-Poster session
16.00-16.15/ The use of drainage ditches and stone bunds and their effects on topographical thresholds for gully head development in North Ethiopia. Elise Monsieur*, Mekete Dessie, Niko E.C. Verhoest, Enyew Adgo, Jozef Deckers, Jean Poesen, Jan Nyssen, *Royal Museum for Central Africa, Department of Earth Sciences, Tervuren, Belgium
16.15-16.30: Quantification of functional soil organic carbon pools in a chronosequence of land abandonment in southern Spain. Sylvain Trigalet*, Miguel A. Gabarrón-Galeote (2); Kristof Van Oost (1); Bas van Wesemael –*Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
16.30-16.45: Linking radiocaesium sorption to soil chemical properties for Japanese soils: A comparison to European soils. Shinichiro Uematsu*, Hildegarde Vandenhove, Lieve Sweeck, May Van Hees, Jean Wannijn, Erik Smolders. *SCKCEN, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, Mol, Belgium
16.45-17.00: Effect of micro dose of fertilizer and charcoal application in the improvement of maize-beans intercropping productivity in smallholder farms of South-Kivu, DR Congo. Janvier Mulumuna-wa-Lola*, Jean Walangululu, Dries Robroeck, Roel Merckx, Bernard Vanlauwe, Pascal Boeckx *Ghent University, Isofys
17.00-17.15: Assessing the impact of denudation rate on soil chemical weathering intensity in a semi-arid environment, southeast Spain: physico-chemical, mineralogical and geochemical approach. Yolanda Ameijeiras*, Sophie Opfergelt , Jérôme Schoonejans, Veerle Vanacker , Philippe Sonnet,Pierre Delmelle *Earth and Life Institute, Environmental Sciences, Université catholique Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve ? Belgium
17.15-17.30: Closing remarks
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