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4 Lessons Learned from the Listening Sessions
Pages 31-34

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... The organizing committee uncovered several U.S.-based and global data products. The Natural Resources Conservation Service operates the National Soil Information System as well as the Soil Survey Geographic Database and a closely related database, the Gridded 31
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... government Prairie Soil Carbon Project Government Saskatchewan, Canada Soil Health Partnership Collaboration of nonprofit and Central United States private sectors Chinese Academy of Sciences Government China Food and Agriculture Organization's Intergovernmental Global, based in Italy Global Soil Partnership International Soil Reference and Intergovernmental Global, based in the Netherlands Information Centre Joint Research Centre European Soil Intergovernmental European Union Data Centre CSIRO Government Australia Gates Foundation Nonprofit Primarily Asia and Africa iSDA Africa ISRaD Community driven, with public International sector funding DataONE Community driven, with public International and private sector funding Cyverse University collaboration funded Global by U.S. government METER Group Private United States and Europe NOTE: CSIRO = Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; DataONE = Data Observation Network for Earth; iSDA = Innovative Solutions for Decision Agriculture; ISRaD = International Soil ­Radiocarbon Database; NEON = National Ecological Observatory Network; NOAA = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; USDA = U.S.
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... Marklein described two organizations in more detail to illustrate the types of data being collected and curated by different groups and the types of challenges they face. First, the European Commission Joint Research Centre aims to provide scientific evidence and data to support policy making about soil-related issues, including agriculture, the environment and climate change, biodiversity, and human health.
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... Marklein summarized some common needs that emerged from the listening sessions: • funding for monitoring for long-term understanding • more repeated measurements in the same locations • more communication between agencies • increased clarity on nomenclature • more metadata on sampling methodology and processing • data at a scale relevant to farmers • archived soils for future analysis During the discussion session that followed Marklein's presentation, Tomislav Hengl from the OpenGeoHub Foundation added the foundation to the list of global data producers, pointing participants to the resources available at its website (see Continuing Engage­ment Opportunities in Chapter 8)
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