Soil Physics in Agricultural Production, Water Resources and Waste Management
 
Sub Themes:

Agricultural Production: Application of Soil Physics in:

  • Soil Water Balance: Measurement, Modifying and Modelling Innovations
  • Water use efficiency
  • New Methods of assessing Tillage, Compaction and Crusting

Water Resources (Ecohydrology): Application of Soil Physics in:

  • Quantifying Hydropedological Responses
  • Hydrological Processes and Modelling
  • Treating Preferential and Fracture Flow

Waste Management: Application of Soil Physics in:

  • Mining Waste Impoundments: Innovations in Measurement, Modifying and Modelling
  • Contaminated Lands
  • Waste Covers and Remediation

Kirkham Conference 2022

Preliminary Schedule: Skukuza Camp, Kruger National Park, South Africa

Date

Day

Event

Start

Finish

Location

           

28-Aug-22

Sun

Meet and Greet

18:00

21:00

Conference Centre Foyer

           

29-Aug-22

Mon

Keynote, Session 1

08:00

10:30

Large Breakaway Room

29-Aug-22

Mon

Tea/Posters

10:30

11:00

Conference Centre Foyer

29-Aug-22

Mon

Session 2

11:00

13:30

Large Breakaway Room

29-Aug-22

Mon

Lunch

13:30

14:30

Conference Centre Foyer

29-Aug-22

Mon

Keynote, Session 3

14:30

17:00

Large Breakaway Room

29-Aug-22

Mon

Posters

17:00

18:00

Conference Centre Foyer

29-Aug-22

Mon

 

19:00

 

Boma Barbeque Dinner

           

30-Aug-22

Tue

Keynote, Session 4

08:00

10:30

Large Breakaway Room

30-Aug-22

Tue

Tea/Posters

10:30

11:00

Conference Centre Foyer

30-Aug-22

Tue

Session 5

11:00

13:30

Large Breakaway Room

30-Aug-22

Tue

Lunch

13:30

14:30

Conference Centre Foyer

30-Aug-22

Tue

Keynote, Session 6

14:30

17:00

Large Breakaway Room

30-Aug-22

Tue

Posters

17:00

18:00

Conference Centre Foyer

30-Aug-22

Tue

 

19:00

 

Safari Lodge Dinner

           

31-Aug-22

Wed

Research Tour

07:00

18:00

Field Tour

31-Aug-22

Wed

 

19:00

 

Riverside Bush Dinner

           

01-Sep-22

Thu

Keynote, Session 7

08:00

10:30

Large Breakaway Room

01-Sep-22

Thu

Tea/Posters

10:30

11:00

Conference Centre Foyer

01-Sep-22

Thu

Session 8

11:00

13:30

Large Breakaway Room

01-Sep-22

Thu

Lunch

13:30

14:30

Conference Centre Foyer

01-Sep-22

Thu

Keynote, Session 9

14:30

17:00

Large Breakaway Room

01-Sep-22

Thu

Close

17:00

18:00

Large Breakaway Room

01-Sep-22

Thu

 

19:00

 

Conference Dinner

           

02-Sep-22

Fri

Departure

08:00

10:00

Rest Camp

Keynotes:

Noam Weisbrod

Hydrology Professor, Ben Gurion University

How fast the earth surface breathe? Gas Transport in High Permeability Soils and Earth Surface Discontinuities

Johan Bouma

Professor Emeritus, Waginengen University

Hydropedology as an Important Tool to Characterize Ecosystem Services in line with the Land-Related UN-Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Richard Stirzaker

Principal Research Officer, CSIRO

The Virtual Irrigation Academy: from Soil Physics to Social Learning

Stanley Liphadzi

Group Executive, Water Research Commission

TBA

Jan Vanderborght

Professor, Agrosphere Institute, (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich

Mechanistically Upscaling of Root Water Uptake: from the Single Root Segment to the Ecosystem