SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report
Sections
Status: Approved
Basic Information
- Project No. and Title: NE1438 : Hydropedology of Vernal Pool Systems
- Period Covered: 11/07/2016 to 10/22/2017
- Date of Report: 01/20/2018
- Annual Meeting Dates: 10/22/2017 to 10/22/2017
Participants
Mickey Spokas, Marty Rabenhorst, Bruce Vasilas, Karen Vaughan, John Galbraith and Patrick Drohan.
Full meeting report is attached.
Accomplishments
NE-1438 Accomplishments
The 2016-2017 year of the project was the third year of the project. Sites are established, protocols worked out, and experiments and monitoring in progress.
Outreach:
Activities of this project were discussed at the Mid-Atlantic Hydric Soils Committee meetings in January in Raleigh NC and in June in Newton NJ. These meetings are attended by 20-30 people from NRCS, USACE, EPA, consulting companies, faculty and students at University of Maryland, University of Delaware, Penn State, Virginia Tech, and North Carolina State.
The Delaware site was part of the Northeast Regional Pedology Field Tour. Co-hosted by Bruce Vasilas and Joe Valentine. The tour had about 70 participants from ten universities and colleges.
The Delaware site was used for a field trip for the University of Delaware ‘Wetlands’ course.
The project was discussed and hydric soil issues raised at the bi-annual New England Hydric Soils Technical Committee meeting, March 22, 2017, Concord, NH.
Impacts
Publications
Publications:
Rabenhorst, M.C., P.J. Drohan, J.M. Galbraith, B.A. Needelman, L. Spokas, M.H. Stolt, J.A. Thompson, B.L. Vasilas, K.L. Vaughan. 2017. Comparing Performance of Mn-Coated and Fe-Coated IRIS Devices. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting, Oct. 22-25, 2017. Tampa, FL. (Oral and Poster 1110). (347-8)
Park, C.E. and M.C. Rabenhorst. 2017. Assessing New Developments in IRIS Technology. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting, Oct. 22-25, 2017. Tampa, FL. (Poster 1112).
Rabenhorst, M.C. 2017. Oxide-Coated Films - an Improved IRIS Technology. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting, Oct. 22-25, 2017. Tampa, FL. (347-3).
Rabenhorst, M.C. and J. Post. 2017. Manganese Oxides for Environmental Assessment. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. in press.
Drohan, P.J., Plowden, Y., Zimmerman, E., Kraft, J., and D. Kingsbury. 2017. Northern Appalachian wetland ecological sites and their states of disturbance for select benchmark soils. ASA, CSSA, SSSA annual meeting, Tampa, FL. Oct. 22-25, 2017. Abstract #95-1
Ross, B.N. 2017. Assessing hydrology, carbon flux, and soil spatial variability within vernal pool wetlands. M.S. thesis, University of Rhode island, Kingston, RI.