SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Sunday, May 26
18:00 – 20:00 pm Registration and Opening Ceremony
Monday, May 27 08:00 – 09:00 Keynote 1: Ole Wendroth – University of Kentucky, USA “Diagnosing Field-scale Soil Variability for Irrigation Management” 09:00 – 10:00 Keynote 2: João Herbert Viana – Embrapa, Brazil “The Brazilian sandy soils: how far soil physics matters for their management?” 10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 – 11:30 Keynote 3: Yves-Dady Botula – University of Québec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada “Combining measurements and modelling for performance evaluation of a mine reclamation cover in Québec (Canada)” 11:30 – 13:30 Lunch 13:30 – 14:30 Keynote 4: Wenceslau Teixeira – Embrapa, Brazil “Bimodal pore size distributions in some tropical soils” 14:30 – 15:20 20 micro presentations introducing posters (2 min each) 15:20 – 16:10 Coffee Break with posters. 16:10 – 17:30 4 oral presentations (20 minutes each) of participants
Tuesday, May 28 08:00 – 09:00 Keynote 5: Yan Jin – University of Delaware, USA “Colloids and Interfaces: Soil Physics and Beyond” 09:00 – 10:00 Keynote 6: Carla Carducci – University of Grande Dourados “Micromorphological concepts to 3D image analysis” 10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 – 11:30 Keynote 7: Loes van Schaik – Technische Universität Berlin, Germany “Spatiotemporal variability in preferential flow from plot to catchment scale: the influence of soil organisms” 11:30 – 13:30 Lunch 13:30 – 14:30 Keynote 8: Javier Tomasella – CEMADEN “Soil water dynamics in Forest environments and the role of deep roots” 14:30 – 15:20 20 micro presentations introducing posters (2 min each) 15:20 – 16:10 Coffee Break with posters 16:10 – 17:30 4 oral presentations (20 minutes each) of participants
Wednesday, May 29 08:30 – 10:00 Work session: Discussion about next/new topics of research for the future Brazilian Soil Physics 10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 – 11:30 Keynote 9: Scott B. Jones – Utah State Univ, USA “Advances in sensors and instrumentation for soil physical property and process determination” 11:30 – 13:30 Lunch 13:30 – 14:30 Keynote 10: Bruno Montoani Silva – University of Lavras, Brazil “The role of soil physics in overcoming limitations for better crops in southern Minas Gerais, Brazil” 14:30 – 15:20 20 micro presentations introducing posters (2 min each) 15:20 – 16:10 Coffee Break with posters 16:10 – 17:30 4 oral presentations (20 minutes each) of participants 17:30 – 18:00 Prize session for outstanding student presentations & closing ceremony _______________________________________________________________________ |