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... Although the importance of soil to Earth's biogeochemical cycles and to human activities is recognized, the current systems in place for monitoring soil properties -- including physical, chemical, and biological characteristics, along with measures of soil loss through erosion -- do not provide an accurate picture of changes in the soil resource over time. Such an understanding can only be developed by collecting comprehensive data about soils and the various factors that influence them in a way that can be updated regularly and made available to researchers and others who wish to understand soils and make decisions based on those data.
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... providing accessible, useful, and actionable information to land managers and others. To explore the requirements of a dynamic soil monitoring and reporting system, the workshop discussions were organized around several topics, including the following: • defining appropriate, measurable indicators of chemical, physical, and biological soil properties; • available technologies and methods for timely and cost-effective soil data collection; • conceptual and practical considerations for soil data storage and data curation; and • tools to deliver information at different scales of resolution to meet the needs of a diversity of land managers, from producers to state and federal scientists and policy makers.
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... Additional questions central to the workshop target the information that should be combined with the details about the soil itself in order to provide context and inform understanding of soil processes, as well as the information that will be most useful in developing soil models for use in predicting future behavior. This workshop was sponsored by the National Science Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, the U.S.
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... After the fireside chat, the speakers, panelists, and workshop participants divided into breakout sessions on three separate topics; Chapter 7 presents the results of those discussions. Chapter 8 summarizes the workshop's concluding session, which featured a synthesis of the workshop outcomes, a presentation on ways for workshop participants to remain involved in the field, and concluding remarks from Basso.
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  • dynamic soil
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  • existing soil
  • soil management

  • soil samples
  • panel discussion
  • land managers
  • characterize soil
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  • monitoring soil
  • developing soil
  • affect soil
  • soil minerals
  • soil properties

  • soil loss
  • soil resource
  • soil function
  • soil moisture
  • soil resources

  • soil processes
  • soil models
  • workshop organizing
  • individual workshop
  • workshop noted

  • workshop target
  • workshop outcomes
  • workshop discussions
  • data curation
  • land management


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