AGENDA

9:00 – 9:15 Opening Remarks – Matt Walker, State Conservationist, Maine

9:15 – 9:30 Introduction – Luis Hernandez, Regional Director, Soil and Plant Science Divistion

9:30 – 9:45 Current soil survey office staffing and background/responsibilities. – Nick Butler

9:45 – 10:45 Current soil survey office work projects: Nick Butler/Tony Jenkins

Forest site productivity improvement project:

Utilize USFS Forest Inventory and Analysis data tied to soil map unit components to develop species and productivity data for soil survey.

Improvements in soils-ecological site relationship information.

USFS White Mountain Nation Forest initial soil survey work.

Watershed soil sampling mercury project

Replicate total soil sampling and total elemental analysis including Hg

Focus on soils that we typically don’t have data for (wetlands)

Digital Soil Mapping

Nicholville series data update

Dynamic soil properties work in Maine and Vermont

National Wetland Condition Assessment work with/for EPA

10:45 – 12:00 What can we do to address the needs of soil survey users – we are seriously seeking input: Nick/Tony/Lindsay Hodgma

Known issues:

Hydrologic Soil Group

Solar Farm interpretations

De-constructing/disaggregating multi-component map units and inclusion prediction

Unknown issues:

Let us know!!

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