2007 MOU with SSSA

Yesterday NSCSS inked a Memorandum of Understanding (PDF) with the Soil Science Society of America. We have gone several lonely years without one, and, needless to say, the NSCSS leadership is pretty happy about this. Special thanks to Rattan Lal, SSSA President, for seeing this through for us.

One apparent consequence of the interest generated by the MOU is that a new special presentation division (Z09) has been set up by SSSA for NSCSS member presentations at the annual meeting in New Orleans this fall. You can see it listed at the bottom of this page, where it showed up earlier today. This helps tremendously: prior to this we probably would have submitted under Division S-11: Soils and Environmental Quality, on OK fit but not one which encourages our members to come forward. Z09 gives us much more room to present content from the perspectives soil science consultants are most familiar with. Three presentation abstracts are being submitted for Z09 dealing with career opportunities, ethics, and business skills, all in the context of soil science consulting. Even though the deadline for abstract submittal is a week from today, we are in solid position to move forward on this.