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National Conference on Agriculture & Natural Resource Conservation and Management April 17
– 19, 2008 Program
and Schedule _______________________________________ April 17 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Registration Baker Annex 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Reception Baker Annex, Room 209/214 April 18 7:30 – 9:00 a.m. Breakfast Baker Annex, Room 209/204 Session I (Baker
Annex, Room 122) 9:00 – 9:10 am Opening Remarks - Dr. Allen Sessoms, President 9:10 – 9:40 am Agriculture
in the State of Mr. Michael Scuse,
Secretary of Agriculture, State of Conference Presentation 9:40 – 10:00 am Soil
total carbon and nitrogen concentrations of surface and sub-surface soils in
corn and soybean fields in central 10:00 – 10:20 am An
ecological conceptual model for Monie Bay NERR
Site: a case study on watershed ecosystem management - 10:20 – 10:40 am Failure of farmers to participate in a soil conservation project in Haiti - Jolly, C.M., A. Binns, D. Shannon, M. Bannister, J. Dale and P. Lindo 10:40 – 11:00 am The role of the Federal Government in maintaining land conservation programs - Tavernier, E. M. and S. Luk 11:0 0 – 11:10 am Break 11:10 – 11: 30 am Alternative
forest resource use - outdoor recreation and rural economies - Kebede, E., J. Schelhas, and J. Haslerig 11:30 – 11:50 pm Activities of five enzymes
following soil disturbance and weed control in a 11:50 – 1:00 pm Lunch Baker
Annex, Room 209/214 1:00 – 2:00 pm Panel Presentation Theme: Application of GIS in agriculture
and natural resource management Panelist: S. Sriharan,
V.S. David, Z. Yang, D. Meekins and G. Ozbay. 2:00 – 2:10 pm Break 2:10 – 2:30 pm Monitoring
water wells in middle Tennessee with down well camera technology - Dennis,
S., D. Duseja,
P. Vendrell and A. Wade. 2:30 –
2:50 pm Effect of
simultaneous application of pesticides on select soil enzyme activities - Eivazi, F. 2:50 –
3:10 pm The economics of
timber harvesting on small woodlots - Ejimakor,
G., C. Walson,
R. Okafor and H. Sutton 3:10 –
3:30 pm Understanding the relationships between
microbial biomass, enzyme and greenhouse gas efflux in a secondary forest in
Missouri - Hoilett,
N.O., N.V. Nkongolo,
R.J. Kremer, R.M.
Paro, K. Schmidt, S.S. Johnson and S.J. Adisa 3:30 – 3:40 pm Break 3:40 – 4:00 pm Ecological
risk assessment of metal-contaminated soils using a bacteria-based assay - Yang,
J. and Xi Tang 4:00 – 4:20 pm Characterization and dissolution of metal
impurities in multi-walled carbon nanotubes - Hua, B., B. Deng and J. Yang 4:20 – 4:50 pm Baseline
concentrations of trace elements in two agricultural soil depths in central 4:50 – 5:10 pm Improved
quantification of CO2, CH4, and N2O fluxes
from soil in agricultural fields in central Missouri - Nkongolo, N.V., K. Schmidt, R.M. Paro,
N.O. Hoilett, S. J. Adisa
and S.S. Johnson 5:10 – 5:30 pm Fuel prices and substitution of nitrogen
fertilizer input in irrigated corn production - Yeboah, Osei-Agyeman, T. Thomas, V. Ofori-Boadu,
P. E. Faulkner 5:30 – 5:50 pm Soil thermal properties as potential controlling factors for CO2, N2O and CH4 emissions from a secondary forest in central Missouri - Paro, R.M., N.V. Nkongolo, S.S. Johnson, K. Schmidt, N.O. Hoilett and S.J. Adisa 6:00 – 7:00 pm Dinner Baker Annex, Room 209/214 Speaker
Mr. Russel Morgan, State Conservationist,
NRCS, Dover, DE
April 19 Session II (Baker Annex, Room 122) 7:00 – 8:00 a.m. Breakfast Baker Annex, Room 209/214 8:10 – 9:00 am Environmental Restoration in the State of Delaware – Mr. John Hughes, Secretary of Natural
Resources and Environmental Control, State of Delaware Conference Presentation 9:00 – 9:20 am Monitoring
the persistence of chlorpyrifos used in Japanese
beetle larvae control in field grown balled and burlapped
nursery stock - Dennis, S.O., J. Oliver
and P. Nveawiah –Yoho 9:20 –
9:50 am Environmental impact
of production practices of small limited resource farmers in 9:50 – 10:00 am Break 10:00 –
10:20 am Assessing local
community support for sustainable agricultural production systems - Thomas,
T., O. Yeboah, V. Ofori-Boadu
and E. Fosu 10:20 –
10:50 am State conservation
spending in the 10:50 –
11:10 am Highway Retention Pond
Effects on Water Quality at DSU Outreach and Research Farm in 11:10 –
11:30 am Effects of soil
nitrogen on nodulation and nitrogen fixation of Frankia - Anoruo, F. C. and D.
Lincoln. 11:30 –
11:50 am Water quality
assessment of a watershed in 11:50 –
12:10 pm Performance of
cottonwood (Populus deltoides)
clones as a woody biomass crop for phytoremediation
- Onokpise,
O.U. and D. Rockwood 12:10 –
12: 30 pm The effect of tillage and
nitrogen management for irrigated red kidney beans (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.) on nitrate leaching
losses - Wilson, M., J.F. Moncrief, C.J. Rosen, N. Krause, and B. Montgomery 12:30 pm Closing Remarks – Dr. |
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