A Photo Album of:
ISCO Activities
There are plenty of activities for the hundreds of ISCO participants to enjoy. Two receptions, Open Houses and field trips provided plenty to keep them busy. Here are some of the activities.
Fellowship and fine food filled the ballroom Thursday evening as SCO participants listened to a thought provoking speech.
ISCO participants fill 14 bus loads for the Wednesday Field Trip.
First stop for the Gold Group was the Boone County Royal Run subdivision
for a discussion of urban erosion.
Next the group visited displays at a series of ramadas in Eagle Creek Park.
They learned about the Wetland Reserve Program.
Taweesak Vearasilp, Dept. of Land Development, Bangkok, Thailand, gets a hands on demonstration of soil testing equipment.
From there is was on to lunch at the site of the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race.
After lunch is was on to the Jim Moseley Farm.
Barry Fisher, Park County US NRCS talked about notill.
JIm Moseley discussed his political service and emphasized the importance of each individual's contribution to improved soil quality.
The tour went on to the site of an old French trading post along the banks of the Wabash River.
Purdue Professor of Agronomy Dan Franzmeier described the soil evolution to the assembled crowd.
Click here to link to the Purdue Agronomy Department.
Prof. Franzmeier recounted the role of the Ice Age in local soil formation.
From there, the group proceeded to an old gravel pit for a hillside lecture on erosion.
The group also watched as artificial rain produced two dramatically different runoff results between mulched and unmulched slopes.
Special Photo Page of Two Crows
the Miami Indian Chieftain who visited the Tuesday evening social in the ballroom.
A Sunday evening social
in a Purdue ballroom proved especially popular.
The Nat'l Soil Erosion Research Lab
can produce rainstorms upon demand!
Click here to link to their website.
Participants watched as lasers
demonstrated how soil characterists are determined.
Christopher Renschler
a visiting scientist from Germany provided details of GIS usages for watershed erosion calculations.
Click here for his website on Scaling the Erosion Model WEPP from Hillslopes to Regional Scales using Regionalization Methods--a GIS-based Approach
E-mail enthusiasts
had a place to ply their trade in a room of computers provided by ISCO organizers.
A visit to The Conservation Technology Information Center
to help put a human face on a most importance informational resource.
Click hre to link to the main Purdue University site.
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