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We are delighted to be joined by Daniel Richter to discuss his work on soil and soil ecosystems for our Reading Group on Feb 22, 15:00 CET. This will be a hybrid session.
For in-person: Blindern Campus, P.A. Munchs hus, room PAM389.
For Zoom: https://uio.zoom.us/j/68838863152?pwd=VHV3cjc5a2RQQmhEYnBqTklBWU5PQT09.
Readings
For this sessions we will be discussing the following texts:
- Richter, Daniel D. 2022. "Past Critique but Much Praise for Restoration Ecology: Four Decades On". Restoration Ecology. pp. 1-3.
- Richter, Daniel D. 2020a. "Ansichten der Calzone: Views of the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory". In Latour, Bruni and Peter Weibel (eds.) Critical Zones. MIT Press. pp. 140-143.
- Richter, Daniel D. 2020b. "Game Changer in Soil Science: The Anthropocene in soil science and pedology". Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science. Vol. 183. pp. 5-11. DOI: 10.1002/jpln.201900320
- Richter, Daniel D., and Dan H. Yaalon. 2012. "'The Changing Model of Soil' Revisited". Soil Science Society of America Journal. Vol. 76 (3). pp. 766-778. DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2011.0407
- Richter, Daniel D. 2007. "Humanity's Transformation of Earth's Soils: Pedology's New Frontier". Soil Science. Vol. 172 (12). pp. 957-967. DOI: 10.1097/ss.0b013e3181586bb7
About the Presenter
Daniel Richter’s research and teaching links soils with ecosystems and the wider environment, most recently Earth scientists’ Critical Zone. He focuses on how humanity is transforming Earth’s soils from natural to human-natural systems, specifically how land-uses alter soil processes and properties on time scales of decades, centuries, and millennia. Richter's book, Understanding Soil Change (Cambridge University Press), co-authored with his former PhD student Daniel Markewitz (Professor at University of Georgia), explores a legacy of soil change across the Southern Piedmont of North America, from the acidic soils of primary hardwood forests that covered the region until 1800, through the marked transformations affected by long-cultivated cotton, to contemporary soils of rapidly growing and intensively managed pine forests. Richter and colleagues work to expand the concept of soil as the full biogeochemical weathering system of the Earth’s crust, ie, the Earth’s belowground Critical Zone, which can be tens of meters deep.