Past Events
2011
MAPSS winter technical event - Soil resource utilization and
sustainability
Date:
Friday, December 2, 2011 - 8am to 5pm
Location:
Best
Western Kelly Inn, 100 4th Avenue, St. Cloud, MN 56301, (320)
253-0606
Click here for
registration
form
Join
us at the MAPSS winter meeting as a host
of distinguished presenters share their work and expertise on topics
associated
with the utilization of our soil resources and the sustainability of
present
day practices.
Ever
wonder if anyone is
working on new BMPs to address concerns in our agricultural and urban
areas? Concerned
about the rapid
migration of subsurface drainage systems in the
“Valley”?
What
is the state of our forest soils and
forest/product industry? Are
we moving
toward restrictive water and land use policies? These
and other topics will be discussion points of the day.
Whether
soil scientists, environmentalists,
producers, or concerned citizens, this gathering will be an informative
platform for those with interests in our land resources.
This
is your chance to interact with the researchers and
observers working on the front lines. This
is also your chance to see old friends, and as importantly, to meet
the new generation of soil scientists. We
have a number of new and outstanding members who will be joining us
for the first time. As
usual, your
presence and involvement is the fabric of this organization.
Tentative
Topics & Speakers
Sustainability
of our Soil and Systems
- Dr.
Giles Randall,
Retired, U of M
Conservation
Drainage and Agricultural Policies in the Red River Valley
- Luke
Steuwe, MDA
Research
Projects Focusing on Fate, Transport of
Nutrients Pesticides and Bacteria in Agriculture - Dr.
Adam Birr and Mr. Kevin Kuehner, MDA
Discovery
Farms; Onsite “edge of field” Research
- Mr.
Tim Radatz, MDA
U
of M Soil Judging
Team Update - Dr.
Terry Cooper, Soil Professor, U of M
Urban
Water Infiltration, Engineering Soils for Slopes,
Dewatering, Staging Projects to Protect Soils, Wind Erosion Control,
Soil
Stabilization - Mr.
Dwayne Stenlund,
MnDOT
Two
Stage Ditch Research - Dr.
Joe Magner and
Mr. Bruce Wilson, MPCA
Controlled
Drainage Research, Wetland Systems - Dr.
Jeff Strock, U of M
Register before November 23, 2011 to avoid being charged a higher
registration fee.
Continuing Education
Credits: 6.0
MAPSS
Red Till Soil Workshop III - October 17, 2011
This class is for SSTS Professionals (Designers & Inspectors) and
meets the MPCA SSTS requirement for soil continuing education (6 soil
credits). The class begins at 7:30am at Spectrum Research, Inc.,
4915 E. Superior St., Suite 100, and is taught by James C. Balogh, PSS,
Ph.D., MPCA Adv. Designer / Adv. Inspector. Advanced registration
is required, please call 218-525-5322. The cost is $140.00.
Call now, only 6 seats remain!
2011
MAPSS Summer Tour
Date:
Friday, August 5, 2011
Location: Chatfield, Minnesota
Meeting: Lectures
with a break for lunch (snacks and lunch are included in the
cost).
Registration Form: click here for registration form
The classic karsted
geology and
soil resources of southeast Minnesota
will be the focus of our tour and discussions. Enjoying the
beautiful
landscapes and “food” of southeastern Minnesota
will be mandatory.
While most of southeast Minnesota
is underlain by karsted bedrock, we will spend most of our day in
central Fillmore
County
where the best surface expressions of karst exist. This rare
geological
region of Minnesota
is only enhanced by the unique soils covering this landscape.
We will
investigate both, but will not limit ourselves to mere surficial
observations. Be prepared for crawling into
sinkholes and observing
geology from the bottom up.
Our tour will begin in historic Chatfield. We will observe
the Ordovician
Galena limestone so prominent in this area. Other stops will
include a
sinkhole display, springs emerging from caves, the soil landscapes of
massive
sinkhole plains, a floodplain soil investigation, a stream/floodplain
restoration project, and an exclusive tour of Mystery
Cave.
There are plenty of issues, also. How have communities in
karst geology
dealt with stormwater management, nutrient contamination, land use
regulation,
etc?
To
lead this tour, the best of Southeastern
Minnesota
have been selected for your disposal.
Jeff Green, who is the Regional Groundwater Specialist for the MnDNR
Division
of Waters in Rochester,
is an expert in carbonate hydrogeology. Mr. Green has
graciously
volunteered to guide the geology portion of this tour. His
extensive
knowledge of karst hydrology, aggregate mining, karst mapping and the
issues
associated with each will significantly expand our knowledge and
curiosity. Our own Peter Hartman, Area Soil Scientist for the
NRCS, was
intimately involved in the soil survey updates in SE Minnesota and with
years
of soil investigations under his belt, commands supreme knowledge of
the soils
of southeastern Minnesota.
Peter will skillfully enlighten us to the unique soil resources of this
region
You
cannot afford to miss this unique opportunity to learn
so much about the earth resources of this great area of Minnesota
by true professionals.
By
the way, the “food” component will be provided by
the Southeastern
Minnesota Food Network. Southeastern Minnesota
not only provides great landscapes, geology
and soils, but also great food, produced right here.
Can’t miss this!
2010
MAPSS Winter Technical Event
Friday,
December 3,
2010
Best
Western Kelly Inn
100 4th Avenue
St. Cloud, MN 56301
(320)
253-0606
Opportunities
and priorities of soil science have changed. Mapping
has taken place for more than 100 years. Erosion
control was the focus after the dust
bowl. Fertility
and the green revolution
followed WWII. The
‘70s and ‘80s
introduced septic systems to soil science. Wetland
soils were added in the ‘90s.
Click here for registration form.
PDH = 6 (5
technical,
1 ethics)
Topics
& Speakers
7:30
Registration - donuts,
coffee, networking
8:00
New Opportunity:
Stormwater Management - Ryan
Johnson, Ramsey Conservation District and Dave Bauer, Rice Creek
Watershed District
9:15
Soils,
Landscapes and
Cultural Patterns - Dave
Krueger,
Temple University
9:45
Alternate
Cause of Sediment
in Lake Pepin
- Satish Gupta, U of M
10:30
Agency and University
updates, perspectives, and future plans:
Don Baloun, Minnesota
State Conservationist, representing
the NRCS
Carl Rosen, Dept. Head, Soil, Water, & Climate,
representing the U of M
John Jaschke, BWSR
12:00
lunch by Green
Mill, MAPSS
Business Meeting to follow
1:15
Perspectives of Soils in the United Kingdom
- Terry Cooper, U of M
2:05
Soil Judging Team Update
- Terry Cooper, U of M
2:00
New Perspective: Carbon
Sequestering in Soil -
Megan Lennon, BWSR
Soil Scientist
3:00
Consequences of Ignoring
Environmental Ethics
- Elizabeth Hosch, Rice Creek Watershed District
2009
MAPSS Winter Technical
Event
Date:
Friday,
December 4, 2009
Location: Best Western Kelly
Inn, St. Cloud,
Minnesota
Meeting: Lectures
with a break for lunch
(lunch included in the cost). Click here for the registration form.
2009
Summer Tour/Workshop Event
Date:
Thursday and Friday, August
6 and 7, 2009
Location: Northland Arboretum,
Baxter,
Minnesota
Meeting: Lectures
and field trips. Here
is the tentative information, more to follow.
MAPSS Summer Workshop: Understanding and Measuring Water Movement
through Soils
Featured presenter: Aziz Amoozegar and Satish Gupta
2008
MAPSS Winter Technical
Event and Business Meeting
Date:
Friday,
December 5, 2008
Location: Kelly Inn, St.
Cloud, Minnesota
Meeting: Lectures
with a break for lunch
(lunch included in the cost). Click here for information and the
registration form.
2008
Summer Tour and Business
Meeting
Date:
Friday, July 18, 2008
Location: Ney Environmental
Center, Henderson,
Minnesota
Meeting: Lectures
and field tour with a
break for lunch (lunch included in the cost).
2007
Winter Technical and Business
Meeting
Date:
Friday, December 7, 2007 -
8:30 am through 4:30 pm (come early)
Location: Best Western Kelly
Inn, St. Cloud,
Minnesota
Meeting: Lectures
with a break for lunch
(lunch included in the cost).
Click
here for the registration form.
2007
Summer Tour and Business
Meeting
Date:
Friday, August 17, 2007 -
8:00 am through 4:00 pm
Location: Cloquet Forestry
Center, Cloquet,
Minnesota
Meeting: Outdoor
lectures with a break
for lunch (lunch included in the cost)
Topics
& Speakers
Soils and Soil Formation on
Sandy Outwash (Dr.
Terry Cooper, U of MN and Roger Risley, NRCS)
Tour of the Cloquet Forestry
Plots and Soils
(Ron Severs - Cloquet Forestry Center)
Tour of Carleton County -
Geology & Soils
(Howard Hobbs and Alan Knaeble)
A MAPSS business meeting will be held during the
tour. All
MAPSS members are expected to attend this session. The registration form is at the end
of the latest
issue of the Auger, click here, The Auger.
2006
Winter Technical and Business
Meeting
Date:
Friday, December 1, 2006 -
8:00 am through 3:00 pm
Location: Best Western Kelly
Inn, St. Cloud,
Minnesota
Meeting: Lectures
with a break for lunch
(lunch included in the cost)
Topics
& Speakers (tentative)
A Primer Regarding Mercury in
Minnesota Soils
(Dr. David Grigal, PSS - U of MN)
Scientific Visualization of
Soil Hydrology
(Dr. Jay Bell - U of MN)
Modeling Hydraulic Mounding
(Ray Wuolo, PE, PG
- Barr Engineering)
Professional Ethics (Harvey
Harvala, PE -
Chair of the Board of AELSLAGID)
Environmental Review in
Minnesota (Dr. Terry
Cooper - U of MN)
Soil Data Mart and Web Soil
Survey (Kim
Steffen, PSS - NRCS)
A MAPSS business meeting will be held during the
conference. All MAPSS members are expected to
attend this
session. Click
here for the registration form.
2006
Summer Tour and Business
Meeting -
joint tour between MAPSS and the Minnesota Chapter of the Soil and
Water Conservation Society
TMDLs:
What's Soil Go to Do With It?
Date:
Friday,
July 14, 2006 -
8:00 am through 4:30 pm
Location: Ogilvie High School,
Ogilvie,
Minnesota
Meeting: The MAPSS
business meeting will
be held during the tour
Curious about total maximimum daily loads (TMDLs)?
Find out
all you need to know by joining us at the MAPSS Summer Tour!
2006
MAPSS Summer Tour agenda
2006
MAPSS Summer Tour registration form
2005
Winter Technical and Business
Meeting
Assorted Frontiers in
Pollution Remediation and Soils Inventory
Date:
December
2, 2005 - 8:00
am through 4:30 pm
Location: Best Western Kelly
Inn, St. Cloud,
Minnesota
Meeting: Lectures
with a break for lunch
(included in the cost)
Keeping current and viable in today’s multidisciplinary
environment
involves study on many levels. Technical, historical, inter-personal,
and economical considerations are all areas worthy of investigation. In
order to be a sturdy link in the chain of society, it is beneficial to
observe what is on either end. The 2005 winter meeting attempts to weld
historical events, current technological developments, standard
training, and modern customer service ideologies together so that we
might all be better professionals.
Topics
& Speakers
GIS Techniques Used in the Soil
Survey Update
of Goodhue County (Peter Hartman, PSS)
Dunes in Glacial Lakes Akinn
and Upham, Timing,
Formation and Extent (Lisa Marlow, Physical Scientist and Geologist)
A Tale of Two Towns (Case
Study) (Sara Beth
Scadlock with Houston Engineering)
UMD Stormwater Treatment/ Rain
Garden (Eric
Larson and Candice Richards)
Soil Texture Training,
Reference and Contest
(MAPSS Executive Personnel)
Spodisol Penetration into
Minnesota (Dave
Hvizdak and Roger Risley,Wisconsin and Minnesota Soil Scientists)
A MAPSS business meeting will be held during the conference. All MAPSS
members are expected to attend this session. This event was organized
by Roger Risley, the president-elect of MAPSS.
Click on the following link for the registration form. 2005
Winter Meeting Registration Form
2005
Lake Superior Basin Wetlands
Management and Research Conference - includes the 2005 MAPSS Summer
Business Meeting
Date: July
14-15, 2005
(Thursday & Friday)
Location: UMD - Duluth,
Minnesota
Meeting: meetings, concurrent
tracks and field
trips
The purpose of this conference is to encourage interaction among
wetland scientists, soil scientists, regulators, planners and managers.
The conference will focus on the western Lake Superior watershed and
the role wetlands play in protecting the big lake and its watersheds.
Topics that will be covered include but are not limited to:
National wetland issues and how
we are affected
regionally/locally
Wetland values and functions
Implications of wetland policy
for conservation
and education
Isolated wetlands in relation
to local planning
Geology, soils, and land-use of
the north and
south shores of Lake Superior
WCA rules/changes in rules
Mitigation
MN Wetland delineators
certification
Thursday will be a day of speakers and concurrent sessions (management
and research tracks) followed by an evening dinner/mixer harbor boat
cruise on the Vista Star with two dinner speakers discussing the
geomorphology of Lake Superior and the St. Louis River.
Friday will include the MAPSS business meeting from 7:30-9:00
am (oh yes, you will all be there!), presentation of scientific papers
(with awards by the Society of Wetland Scientists) followed by an
afternoon of field trips.
The cost is $70.00 and includes: the two day
conference,
breaks, two lunches, one field trip (five to choose from) and a dinner
cruise!
For the conference agenda click the following link: http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/wetlandsconference/agenda.html
PLAN TO ATTEND THIS EXCITING CONFERENCE! We are able
to
provide this
conference at such a reasonable cost thanks to the cooperation of the
Arrowhead Water Quality Team. The following
organizations
are putting
this meeting together: MAPSS, WSPSS (Wisconsin
counterpart),
Arrowhead
Water Quality Team, Board of Water and Soil Resources, Society of
Wetland Scientists, UMD Sea Grant and the Fond du Lac Reservation.
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