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Calendar of MAPSS
Events
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2012
MAPSS Executive Committee Meetings - open to all
Date:
Monday, February 13, 2012, 6:30pm
2012
MAPSS summer tour
Date:
Summer,
2012
Location: Yet
to be determined
Meeting:
Topics
and agenda will be available closer to the date of event.
Non-MAPSS
events
Minnesota
Erosion Control Association - 24th Annual Conference on March 8-9,
2012 in Nisswa Minnesota
Forum
of Women in the
Environmental Field
Events held
January, March, May, July, September, November every year
at various locations in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Events range
from breakfast talks, lunch time lectures to evening tours, depending
on the month. For additional information please go to:
www.fwef.org
The
Smithsonian Soils Exhibit - "Dig
It! The Secrets of Soil" July 19, 2008 through January 3, 2010.
The Smithsonian
Institution's National Museum of Natural History, the
Soil Science Society of America, the Agronomic Science Foundation and
various other organizations, along with MAPSS, are working to develop
the Smithsonian Soils Exhibit (www.soils.org/smithsonian).
In order to
do this they needed to raise one to three million dollars. Minnesota
contributed a total of $10,000.00 to have the state recognized at the
exhibit. Dr. H.H. Cheng (hcheng@soils.umn.edu)
and Jay Bell
(jaybell@umn.edu)
lead this fund raising effort.
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why
events?
Why
does MAPSS host events? For a few reasons. We want
our members and other people intersted in soils to obtain refresher and
new information about soils. Income generated from MAPSS
events helps to keep the website updated, keep the newsletter running
and the general upkeep of MAPSS. MAPSS also hosts official
soil training courses for people in a variety of fields.
We call it Soils Training by Real Soil Scientists.
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