Wednesday, 15 November 2006: 8:25 AM
221: Symposium--Soils and Human Health
Sponsor:Z05 Soils and Human Health
Cosponsors:A05 Environmental Quality; C06 Forage and Grazing Lands; S03 Soil Biology & Biochemistry; S04 Soil Fertility & Plant Nutrition; S08 Nutrient Management & Soil & Plant Analysis; S11 Soils & Environmental Quality
Presiding:Eric Brevik, Valdosta Univ, Dept. Physics, Atronomy, and Geosciences
 Introductory Remarks
 Airborne Dust and Human Health.
Brian Bossak, Valdosta State Univ
 Feeding Animals for Soil and Human Health.
Tilak R. Dhiman, Utah State Univ, Amy Ure, Utah State Univ
 Climate and Soils: Their Influence Upon Human Health and Society.
James DeMeo, PO Box 1148
 Break
 Historical Evidence of Human Recognition of the Relationship between Soil Quality and Human Health.
Thomas Sauer, National Soil Tilth Lab, USDA-ARS
 Soils for Health: Linking Soil-Plant-Animal/Human Interrelationships at the USDA-ARS, U.S. Plant, Soil & Nutrition Laboratory – A Historical Perspective.
Ross M. Welch, USDA-ARS, US Plant Soil & Nutrition Lab
 Soils and Society: The Human Health Legacy of Urban Lead Contamination.
Gabriel Filippelli, IUPUI, Mark Laidlaw, School of Population Health
 Lunch
 Human Contact with Plants and Soils for Health and Well-Being.
Joseph Heckman, Rutgers Cooperative Research and Extension Plant Biology and Pathology
 Soil Degradation and Human Health in the Lake Victoria Region of Kenya.
Mary Nyasimi, Iowa State Univ, Lee Burras, Iowa State Univ, Butler Lorna, Iowa State Univ
 Monitoring Water and Sediments in Durham, NC.
L. J. Arroyo, North Carolina Central Univ, Rakesh Malhotra, North Carolina Central Univ, Saundra DeLauder, North Carolina Central Univ, Yolanda Banks-Anderson, North Carolina Central Univ
 Fate and Stability of Soil-borne Arsenic in the Human Stomach.
Shahida Quazi, Univ of Texas at San Antonio, Dibyendu Sarkar, Univ of Texas at San Antonio, Konstantinos Makris, Univ of Texas at San Antonio, Rupali Datta, Univ of Texas at San Antonio
 How Zinc Soil Chemistry Affects Health of People Who Eat Rice.
Sarah Johnson, IRRI, Jack D.C. Jacob, IRRI, Roland J. Buresh, IRRI, Julie Lauren, Cornell Univ, John M. Duxbury, Cornell Univ
 Albert Howard and the Limits of Science.
Thomas Gieryn, Indiana Univ
 Adjourn
Cosponsors:A05 Environmental Quality; C06 Forage and Grazing Lands; S03 Soil Biology & Biochemistry; S04 Soil Fertility & Plant Nutrition; S08 Nutrient Management & Soil & Plant Analysis; S11 Soils & Environmental Quality

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