Annual Meeting Tours*

Saturday, Nov. 2 – Sunday, Nov. 3

7:30 am–5:00 pm Soil-Geomorphic Relations of Florida: from Terrestrial to Subaqueous Tour–tour begins in Gainesville and ends in Tampa

Saturday, Nov. 2

7:15 am–10:00 pm Everglades Wetlands Tour –tour begins in Miami and ends in Tampa

8:30 am–3:30 pm Hillsborough River State Park-Hydric Soils

Sunday, Nov. 3

6:30 am–5:00 pm South Florida Grazinglands Tour

8:00 am–12:30 pm Forage Tour

8:00 am–5:00 pm Global Agronomy and Appropriate Technology Tour (ECHO)

8:00 am–4:30 pm Turfgrass Field Tour

9:00 am–4:00 pm Southwest Florida Organic Farm Tour

1:00 pm–4:30 pm Explore Tampa

Monday, Nov. 3

9:00 am–12:30 pm Explore Tampa

Thursday, Nov. 7 7:30 am–7:00 pm NASA Kennedy Space Center Tour

Tour pricing and descriptions can be found at www.acsmeetings.org/tours-workshops.

*Tours and workshops are filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Register before Sept. 17 to reserve your space and save money as prices increase after this date. Please note that a tour with insufficient registration on Sept. 17 may be canceled and a refund issued. Please do not make travel arrangements prior to confirming the tour or workshop has sufficient registration.

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Theme 5: Improved Nutrient ManagementThe range of potential strategies to increase food production without increasing land area must focus on closing the yield gap. This will require changing soil and water management practices, increasing nutrient and water use efficiencies, improving climatic and weather forecasting to optimize yield potential, and developing more productive crop genotypes and improved crop management strategies.

MONDAY Managing Nutrients At the Landscape Scale, Oral 7:55 AM-9:30 AM TCC, Room 37-38

Symp.—Belowground Processes in Grazinglands: Linking Grassland Management and Ecological Research, Oral 8:25 AM-11:45 AM Marriott, Grand Ballroom G

General Adaptive Nutrient Management: I, Oral 12:55 PM-3:40PM TCC, Room 11

General Adaptive Nutrient Management: II, Poster 4:00 PM-6:00 PM TCC, East Hall TUESDAYMicronutrients, Oral

8:00 AM-9:35 AM Marriott, Grand Ballroom I

Symp.—Practices That Improve Fertilizer Use Efficiency and Reduce Nutrient Losses - Phosphorus, Oral 12:55 PM-3:40 PM TCC, Room 24

Mineral Nutrients - Uptake, Partitioning and Physiological Effects, Poster 4:00 PM-6:00 PM TCC, East Hall WEDNESDAY Symp.—Phosphorus Fate, Management, and Modeling in Artificially Drained Systems: I, Oral 7:50 AM-12:25 PM TCC, Room 16

Phosphorus Management, Oral 8:00 AM-10:20 AM Marriott, Florida Salon IV

Nitrogen Management and Cycling, Oral 8:00 AM-11:30 AM Marriott, Florida Salon V

Nutrient Loss As Affected By Management, Oral 9:30 AM-11:05 AM TCC, Room 11

Symp.—Phosphorus Fate, Management, and Modeling in Artificially Drained Systems: II, Oral 1:25 PM-3:20 PM TCC, Room 16

Theme 6: Energy, Soils, and CropsGrowing quality and nutritious food for the increasing world population requires innovative approaches. We must achieve sustainable solutions that conserve freshwater resources for the world’s increasingly vulnerable ecosystems. In many parts of the world that rely on irrigated agriculture, water and energy are closely connected. For example, the production of biofuel crops may affect food availability and market prices. The issue of food security is further complicated by a shift toward biofuel production that demands scarce water and land resources, and by implications of climatic change on agricultural productivity.

MONDAY Bioenergy Production and Environmental Consequences. Oral 1:10 PM-4:00 PM Marriott, Grand Ballroom J

Bioenergy Crops, Biomass Production, and Soil and Environmental Quality, Poster 4:00 PM-6:00 PM TCC, East Hall

TUESDAY Interactions Between Soil Biotic Communities and Biochar: Implications For Plant Health, Nutrient Cycling and Environmental Quality, Oral 8:15 AM-10:00 AM TCC, Room 1-2

General Forage and Grazinglands: I, Oral 10:25 AM-3:10 PM TCC, Room 21

Symp.—Predicting Field Performance With Controlled Environment Phenotyping - Successes and Failures, Oral 12:55 PM-4:00 PM Marriott, Grand Ballroom I

Impact of Bioenergy Systems On Soil Carbon Changes and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes, Oral 1:40 PM-3:45 PM TCC, Room 3-4

Tuesday General Forage and Grazinglands: II, Poster 4:00 PM-6:00 PM TCC, East Hall

Interactions Between Soil Biotic Communities and Biochar: Implications For Plant Health, Nutrient Cycling and Environmental Quality: II, Poster 4:00 PM-6:00 PM TCC, East Hall

Symp.—Multi-Values of Perennial Crops Discussion, Oral 5:10 PM-6:40 PM TCC, Room 3-4

WEDNESDAYGeneral Biochar: Agronomic and Environmental Uses: I, Oral 8:00 AM-10:55 AM TCC, Room 14

Symp.—Integration Of Perennials To Enhance Agroecosystem Services and Provide Renewable Energy Sources, Oral 8:05 AM-11:45 AM TCC, Room 22-23

Water, Food, Energyand Innovation for a Sustainable World

Descriptions of 2013 ASA, CSSA & SSSA

Annual Meeting ThemesNov, 3–6 • Tampa, FL

The interconnectedness of water, food, energy, and innovations exemplifies the need for our Societies to address the pressing global cross-disciplinary challenges. They include climate change, food security, and water resource availability. To sustain both agricultural and natural ecosystems, researchers and practitioners need to develop innovative approaches and effective management practices. The integration of crop and soil sciences with related agricultural and environmental sciences in this br oad scientific discussion is vital for developing solutions to many of these complex societal issues.

Theme 1: Sensing InnovationInnovative sensing solutions are being developed for sustainable agricultural strategies that minimize environmental impacts. These solutions optimize food production that is increasingly constrained by natural resources such as land, water, and energy. Sensing innovations include monitoring networks, soil and plant sensors, remote sensing techniques, and alternative agronomic management practices, including for soil, water, and nutrients.

Monday General Sensor-Based Nutrient Management: I, Oral 12:55 PM-2:30 PM TCC, Room 10

General Sensor-Based Nutrient Management: II, Poster 4:00 PM-6:00 PM TCC, East Hall

Advancing Measurement Technology in Soil and Environmental Physics: An Original Research Instrumentation Showcase (includes student competition), Poster 4:00 PM-6:00 PM TCC, East Hall

TUESDAY Instrumentation For Non-Destructive Field Measurements of Plant Characteristics, Oral 10:00 AM-11:05 AM Marriott, Room 8

General Airborne and Satellite Remote Sensing: I(includes graduate student poster competition), Oral 10:15 AM-11:35 AM Marriott, Room 10

Symp.—Wireless Technologies and Innovations To Meet Food, Water, and Energy Challenges: I, Oral 1:00 PM-4:45 PM TCC, Room 12

General Airborne and Satellite Remote Sensing: II (includes graduate student poster competition), Poster 4:00 PM-6:00 PM TCC, East Hall

General Biophysical Measurements and Sensors: I, Poster 4:00 PM-6:00 PM TCC, East Hall

WEDNESDAYSymp.—Active Optical Sensors For Adaptive Nitrogen Management, Oral 8:15 AM-3:25 PM Marriott, Grand Ballroom A-B

Advances In Methods and Instrumentation To Study Soil Microbial Ecology and Organic Matter and Their Interactions: I, Oral 8:30 AM-9:50 AM TCC, Room 39

Soil Sensing for Crop Water Management: II, Poster

2:00 PM-4:00 PM TCC, East Hall

Theme 2: The Food-Water-Soil NexusUN projections predict that global population will increase by an additional two billion people by 2050. The food supply will need to approximately double to meet this demand, as well as twice the amount of developed water resources. Sustainable agricultural intensification will be necessary, by way of significantly increasing crop yields per area unit of land and water. This has to be done by maintaining or reducing agriculture’s environmental footprint. FAO estimates that we will need to convert more than one billion hectares of natural lands for farmland, if we continue to use present day agricultural practices. How will scientists rise to this challenge?

MONDAY The Agronomy of Precision Water Management, Symp. 7:55 AM-12:00 PM TCC, Room 31-32

Symp.—Can Global Food / Fiber Security and Environmental Quality Be Simultaneously Achieved? Oral 9:45 Am-12:45 PM TCC Ballroom B-D

General Crop Irrigation Strategies and Management: I, Oral 10:00 AM-11:25 AM TCC, Room 10

Symp.—Everglades Management and Restoration, Oral 12:55 PM-4:35 PM Marriott, Room 11

Symp.—The Soil-Crop Nexus Across Spatial and Temporal Scales (includes Global Digital Soil Map Graduate Student Competition), Oral 1:00 PM-4:45 PM Marriott, Florida Salon IV

Management of Soil Water, Oral 1:25 PM-4:00 PM Marriott, Room 5

TUESDAY Symp.—Hydropedology – 10 Years Later and 10 Years Into the Future: I, Oral 9:00 AM-4:00 PM TCC, Room 13

Symp.—Improving Crop Water Productivity Through Innovative Irrigation and Dryland Management, Symp. 1:00 pm-5:00 pm TCC, Room 14

Symp.—Blue Waves, Green Dreams, and Shades of Gray: Perspectives On Water, Oral 1:15 PM-4:45 PM TCC, Ballroom B-D

Hydropedology – 10 Years Later and 10 Years Into the Future: II, Poster 4:00 PM-6:00 PM TCC, East Hall

Soil Physics and Hydrology Student Competition: Lightning, Orals With Poster Presentations, Poster 4:00 PM-6:00 PM TCC, East Hall

WednesdayWater Stress and Temperature Stress, Oral 9:55 AM-12:00 PM Marriott, Room 1

Theme 3: Climate ChangeThe impacts of climate change on water resources, agricultural, and natural ecosystems are profound. US agriculture has a long history of adapting to climate variability. The accelerated pace and intensity of climate variability and extreme events presents new challenges for agriculture and natural ecosystems. Uncertainty remains about the effects of climate feedbacks, such as between a changing climate and water availability, crop growth and yield, and feedbacks between climatic changes, soil and water quality. The long-term impacts of changing climatic conditions on soil carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas (GHG) production, including N2O and methane fluxes are also insufficiently understood.

MONDAYSymp.—Improving Tools to Assess Climate Change Effects On Crop Response: Modeling Approaches and Applications: I, Oral 8:00 AM-11:45 AM TCC, Room 7-8

Symp.—Adaptation Of Temperate Crops To Climate Change, Oral 8:25 AM-11:55 AM TCC, Room 22-23

Symp.—Soil Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Improving Methodology, Calculations, Analysis, and Modeling, Oral 1:00 PM-4:00 PM Marriott, Florida Salon I-III

Symp.—Organic Systems and Climate Change: Stability, Resilience, and Profitability, Oral 1:00 PM-4:50 PM TCC, Room 22-23

Symp.—Improving Tools to Assess Climate Change Effects On Crop Response: C x T x W Data Sets and Model Intercomparisons, Oral 1:00 PM-5:25 PM TCC, Room 7-8

Symp.—Soil Science Challenges in Land Surface and Global Climate Modeling: I, Oral 2:00 PM-5:05 PM TCC, Room 16

TUESDAY Symp.—Mitigating Drought and Other Impacts of Climate Change Through Management to Improve Soil Health and Productivity, Oral 9:00 AM-12:10 PM TCC, Room 10

Symp.—Use of Perennials Crops for Adaptation to Climate Change, Oral 12:55 PM-3:45 PM Marriott, Grand Ballroom C-D

WEDNESDAYSymp.—Yield Gains Through Genetics and Breeding, Oral 10:00 AM-2:45 PM TCC, Ballroom A

Climate Change and Soil and Water Sustainabilty 1:10 pm - 2:30 pm TCC, Room 11

Theme 4: Sustainable Agricultural SystemsExpanding food, feed, and fiber production for an ever-increasing human population is both a scientific and societal challenge. Sustainable agriculture refers to the ability to produce food indefinitely, without causing irreversible damage to ecosystem health. Equally great is the challenge to maintain and improve environmental quality of our soil, water, and air resources, in the face of expanded human alterations of the biosphere. However, we must balance regulating sustainable environmental quality with a consideration of human needs and societal well-being.

MONDAY Symp.—Conservation Agriculture and Sustainable Intensifica-tion for Improving Resilience of Smallholder Farming Systems in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Oral

8:00 AM-12:15 PM TCC, Room 5-6

Symposium--Polyculture and Perennial Grains For Sustainable Agriculture, Oral

8:30 AM-11:40 AM TCC, Room 24

Ecology, Water, Soil, Cultural and Pest Management: Student Oral Competition. Oral

12:55 PM-4:00 PM TCC, Room 21

Management Impacts On Soil Quality, Oral

2:05 PM-3:45 PM TCC, Room 12

Animal Agriculture Sustainability and Conservation of Natural Resources (includes graduate student poster competition), Poster 4:00 PM-6:00 PM TCC, East Hall

TUESDAY General Animal Agriculture and The Environment: I, Oral 10:15 AM-12:05 PM TCC, Room 14

Crop Diversity Contributions to Ecosystem Services, Oral 12:55 PM-3:45 PM TCC, Room 20

Crop Yield With Conservation Agricultural Managemen, Oral

12:55 PM-4:00 PM TCC, Room 10

Polyculture and Perennial Grains For Sustainable Agriculture, Poster

2:00 PM-4:00 PM TCC, East Hall

General Organic Management Systems: I (includes graduate student competition), Poster

4:00 PM-6:00 PM TCC, East Hall

WEDNESDAYGeneral Organic Management Systems: II, Oral

8:00 AM-11:05 AM Marriott, , Grand Ballroom C-D

Symp.—Yield Gains Through Genetics and Breeding, Oral 10:00 AM-2:45 PM TCC, Ballroom A

Crop Ecology, Management and Quality Posters II, Poster

2:30 PM-4:30 PM TCC, East Hall