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Soil Spectral Inference Workshop
The desire to measure soil carbon and other soil properties rapidly and more cheaply has resulted in soil spectroscopy becoming a hot topic of research in soil science over the past few years. Researchers in the Soil Security Lab in the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Agriculture and Environment have been leading the way in…
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Forging an international research collaboration to secure soils for posterity
Between June 15-19, University of Sydney research fellows Drs. Brendan Malone and Uta Stockmann visited the National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, to provide training and expertise in advanced methods of digital soil mapping. The hands-on and practical course was presented to local researchers, graduate students, and Taiwanese Government scientists, totaling 25 participants. The visit to…
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Digital Soil Mapping Training for Indonesian Scientists
The Soil Security Lab in the Faculty of Agriculture and Environment at the University of Sydney was requested to provide a training program for nine delegates from the Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research & Development (IAARD), Ministry of Agriculture on Digital Soil Mapping. The program was designed by A/Prof. Budiman Minasny as a response to…
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Lending a helping hand to develop African soil information
Six West African soil scientists are visiting the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources to undertake intensive training in digital soil mapping coordinated by the University of Sydney’s Associate Professor Inakwu Odeh. The visiting fellows are sponsored by AusAID as part of the Australian Leadership Awards Fellowships program. Associate Professor Inakwu Odeh and colleagues…
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Extending the GlobalSoilMap to India
“To make our Agriculture more resilient and yield more; to develop appropriate and affordable technologies for rural areas”- Mr. Narendra Modi, 102nd Indian Science Congress, 03-01-2015. To celebrate the International Year of Soils, a National Soil and Water Networking Workshop was held at IIT, Kharagpur, India from 4-8 of January 2015 sponsored by Australia-India council,…
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Training the next generation of Russian Soil Scientists
Arguably the birth place of soil science is situated in Russia, with Vasily Dokuchaev considered its founding father. Dokuchaev established soil science as a natural science and published many classical works that are still relevant today. Between November 30 and December 3 Soil Scientists Prof. Budiman Minasny and Dr. Brendan Malone were invited to the…