About Us

3rd Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping

Janis Boettinger (Utah State Univ.) US, Workshop Chair

International Executive Committee:

Thorsten Behrens (Univ. Tubingen) DE
Florence Carré (JRC) IT
Alfred Hartemink (ISRIC World Soil Information) NL
Jon Hempel (USDA-NRCS) US
Alex McBratney (Univ. Sydney) AU
Maria de Lourdes Mendonça-Santos (EMBRAPA Solos) BR
Amanda Moore (USDA-NRCS) US
Neil McKenzie (CSIRO) AU

USA Executive Committee:

John Galbraith (Virginia Tech Univ.)
Paul Gessler (Univ. Idaho)
Sabine Grunwald (Univ. Florida)
David Howell (USDA-NRCS)
Brian Slater (Ohio State Univ.)
James Thompson (West Virginia Univ.)
Bill Ypsilantis (USDI-BLM)
A-Xing Zhu (Univ. Wisconsin)

Utah Organizing Committee:

Robert Gerber and team at USU Conference Services
Suzann Kienast-Brown (USDA-NRCS)
Colby Brungard (Utah State Univ.)
John Lawley (Utah State Univ.)

Scientific Organizing Committee:

Includes members of the International and USA Executive Committees plus the following:

David Brown (Washington State Univ.) US
Stephen DeGloria (Cornell Univ.) US
Philippe Lagacherie, (INRA), FR
Murray Lark (Rothamstead) UK
Robert MacMillan (LandMapper Envir. Sol., Inc.) CA
Thomas Mayr (Cranfield Univ.) UK
Budiman Minasny (Univ. Sydney) AUS
David Rossiter (ITC) NL
Raphael Viscarra Rossel (CSIRO) AU
Markus Walsh (Columbia Univ.) US
S.Young Hong (NIAST) KR
Gan-Lin Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) CN

Sponsors and Friends:
USU Department of Plants, Soils, and Climate (http://psc.usu.edu/ )
USU College of Agriculture (http://www.ag.usu.edu/ )
Utah State University (http://www.usu.edu/ )
Utah Agricultural Experiment Station (http://www.agx.usu.edu/ )
USU Conference Services (http://conference.usu.edu/ )
Soil Science Society of America (https://www.soils.org/ )
International Working Group on Digital Soil Mapping (http://www.digitalsoilmapping.org/)
IUSS Commission 1.5 Pedometrics (http://www.pedometrics.org/)
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (http://soils.usda.gov/ )
National Geospatial Development Center (http://ngdc.wvu.edu/ )