[Enviro-lunch] Enviro-lunch (10/8. 12-1pm): Building soil health in central coast cropping systems

[Kyungjin Min]

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Hello all,

This week Charlotte Decock, an assistant professor at Cal Poly, will
present her research on soil health and fertility assessment. Please join
us on Oct 8th between 12-1 pm.

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*Title:*

Building soil health in central coast cropping systems

*Abstract: *

The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Healthy Soils Program
has incentivized the adoption of soil health management practices in recent
years, motivated by the opportunity to sequester carbon and mitigate
climate change while safeguarding the fertility of our precious farmland
for present and future generations. Even though the CDFA carefully selected
management practices whose carbon sequestration potential has been clearly
demonstrated, few of these practices have been thoroughly investigated in
the many specialty crops and microclimates of the California Central Coast.
To overcome this knowledge gap, Cal Poly has established a number of
experiments to assess benefits and tradeoffs of soil health management in
Central Coast cropping systems. These experiments assess effects of compost
application rate on greenhouse gas emissions in vineyards; effects of
compost application on nitrogen dynamics, plant health, and productivity of
various strawberry cultivars; and effects of cover crops and mycorrhizal
inoculation on soil health in lemon orchards. Preliminary findings from
these trials will be discussed.





*Bio: *


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Charlotte Decock is an assistant professor of soil health and fertility at
Cal Poly. Her teaching and research focus on sustainable plant nutrition
and soil conservation management. Her work at Cal Poly aims to contribute
to the development and assessment of soil and nutrient management practices
that protect soil, water and air resources, while maintaining agronomic
productivity and economic viability in California’s cropping systems. She
is also interested in the evaluation of novel indicators for the
assessments of soil health and nutrient availability in arable soil. She
earned a Ph.D. in Soils and Biogeochemistry from UC Davis and a M.Sc. and
B.Sc. in Environment Engineering from Ghent University (Belgium). During
the last 10 years, her research has focused on nutrient cycles and
greenhouse gas emissions in agroecosystems around the world; and how they
are affected by management practices and climate change.



KJ, Manisha, and Anna



Organizers for Fall 2020: KJ Min, Manisha Dolui, Anna Jurusik

Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe



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You can find the semester schedule below.



*date*

*speaker*

*topic*

  9/10

Shane Franklin

@ U of Delaware

Preferential flow plays an unknown role in the carbon cycle

9/17

Crystal Kolden

@ UC Merced

The cascading consequences of wildfire: understanding and mitigating
impacts to coupled human-natural systems

9/24

Allegra Mayer

@ UC Berkeley

Soil C sequestration potential in CA grasslands with compost amendments

10/1

Govind Dev Kumar

@ UGA

Salmonella's Trojan Horse Strategy to Evade Antimicrobial Stress

10/8

Charlotte Decock

@ Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Soil health and fertility assessment

10/15

Emma Hauser

@ U of Kansas

Integrated rooting system development and soil development structures
ecosystem nutrient dynamics

10/22

Will Kew

@ PNNL

High resolution mass spectrometry applied to organic matter/complex mixtures

10/29

Mary Salcedo

@ Virginia Tech

Form and function of insect wing veins

11/5

Todd Longbottom

@ UC Merced

Oxidative weathering of ancient organic matter and formation of modern soils

11/12

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe @ UC Merced

Finding and securing grants for students & postdocs

11/19

Adeyemi Adebiyi

@ UC Merced

How much solar radiation does atmospheric mineral dust absorb?

11/26

Thanksgiving holiday



12/3

Yamina Pressler

@ Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Soil food webs and organic matter in fire-affected savanna ecosystems

12/10

AGU
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