Scientific Programme
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2007-10-22
- REGISTRATION (None)
- OPENING SESSION (None)
- Coffee Break (None)
- Soils of the world and their physical properties (Otto Spaargaren)
- Lunch Break (None)
- Soils of the world and their physical properties (Otto Spaargaren)
- Coffee Break (None)
- WELCOME RECEPTION
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2007-10-23
- Soil porous systems - Soil structure (Marcello Pagliai)
- Coffee Break & 1st Group Photograph
- Saturated flow and saturated hydraulic conductivity (Donald Gabriels)
- Lunch Break (None)
- Land degradation processes (general) (Donald Gabriels)
- Coffee Break (None)
- Desertification: research priorities in drylands (Donald Gabriels)
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2007-10-24
- Soil surface sealing and crusting (Marcello Pagliai)
- Coffee Break (None)
- Soil compaction (Marcello Pagliai)
- Lunch Break (None)
- A soil mechanics approach to study soil compaction (Moacir S.Dias Junior)
- VISIT TO CASTLE OF MIRAMARE (None)
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2007-10-25
- Soil water hydrostatics-Soil water potential (Donald Nielsen)
- Coffee Break (None)
- Soil water retention and water flow equations (Donald Nielsen)
- Lunch Break (None)
- Measurement of soil water, use of neutron probe and tensiometers (Klaus Reichardt)
- Coffee Break (None)
- Soil water balance and climatic aspects (Klaus Reichardt)
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2007-10-26
- Unsaturated flow in homogeneous and heterogeneous porous media (Donald Nielsen)
- Coffee Break (None)
- Water balance: infiltration, evaporation and evapotranspiration (Klaus Reichardt)
- Lunch Break (None)
- Presentations by participants (None)
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2007-10-29
- Simple field methods for soil water properties (Donald Nielsen)
- Coffee Break (None)
- Water balance: deep drainage , including water flow in unsaturated soil (Klaus Reichardt)
- Lunch Break (None)
- Transient temperature and water vapor in soils (Donald Nielsen)
- Coffee Break (None)
- Presentations by participants (None)
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2007-10-30
- Gamma and X ray attenuation and introduction to computed tomography (Klaus Reichardt)
- Coffee Break (None)
- Soil degradation (Ildefonso Pla Sentis)
- Lunch Break (None)
- Soil degradation (Ildefonso Pla Sentis)
- Coffee Break (None)
- Presentations by participants (None)
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2007-10-31
- Dimensional analysis and scaling, with an introduction to fractals (Klaus Reichardt)
- Geology and Palaeo Climate of the Trieste Karst (Vinod Chandra TEWARI)
- Coffee Break & 2nd Group Photograph
- Nature of Wind erosion and development of wind erosion prediction (Ed Skidmore)
- Lunch Break (None)
- VISIT TO THE GROTTA GIGANTE (Cave) (None)
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2007-11-01
- Databases and submodels for simulating wind erosion (Ed Skidmore)
- Coffee Break (None)
- WEPS for assessing wind erosion hazard and fighting desertification (Ed Skidmore)
- Lunch Break (None)
- Infiltration (Ildefonso Pla Sentis)
- Coffee Break (None)
- Presentations by participants (None)
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2007-11-02
- Sampling soils and their vegetation - geostatistical analysis (Donald Nielsen)
- Coffee Break (None)
- Sampling soils and their vegetation - applied time series analysis (Donald Nielsen)
- Lunch Break (None)
- Spatial and time statistical tools for evaluating the variability of the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere System (Luis Carlos Timm)
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2007-11-05
- Fundamentals of solute transport in soils (Donald Nielsen)
- Coffee Break (None)
- Analyzing solute transport in field soils (Donald Nielsen)
- Lunch Break (None)
- Soil salinization and sodification processes (Ildefonso Pla Sentis)
- Coffee Break (None)
- Presentations by participants (None)
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2007-11-06
- Evaluation and modeling of soil degradation processes (Ildefonso Pla Sentis)
- Coffee Break (None)
- Evaluation and modeling of soil degradation processes (Ildefonso Pla Sentis)
- Lunch Break (None)
- Aridity and drought indices (Donald Gabriels)
- Coffee Break (None)
- Presentations by participants (None)
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2007-11-07
- Factors affecting the water erosion process (Donald Gabriels)
- Coffee Break (None)
- Factors affecting the water erosion process (Donald Gabriels)
- Lunch Break (None)
- Prediction of climate change: from global to regional scales (Filippo Giorgi)
- Coffee Break (None)
- Presentations by participants (None)
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2007-11-08
- Hydrological approach to soil and water conservation (Ildefonso Pla Sentis)
- Coffee Break (None)
- Hydrological approach to soil and water conservation (Ildefonso Pla Sentis)
- Lunch Break (None)
- Water harvesting in arid and semi-arid regions: soil physical and soil hydrological aspects (Donald Gabriels)
- Coffee Break (None)
- Presentations by participants (None)
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2007-11-09
- The influence of tillage and and of compression upon soil physical properties (Miroslav Kutilek)
- Soil water retention curve, interpretation (Miroslav Kutilek)
- Saturated flow in porous media (Miroslav Kutilek)
- Unsaturated flow in porous media (Miroslav Kutilek)
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2007-11-09
- Diplomas and Certificates of Attendance Distribution
- Coffee Break (None)
- CLOSING SESSION: Soil physics - some of the past and today's primary opportunities (Donald Nielsen)
- FAREWELL
- LUNCH RECEPTION
Organizers
Directors: D. Gabriels, D. Nielsen, I. Pla Sentis, E. Skidmore;
ICTP Local Organizer: G.C. Ghirardi.
ICTP Local Organizer: G.C. Ghirardi.