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Lal Revieves World Congress of Soil Science Award

Thursday, Jul 14, 2006
Ohio State University Extension
Article

Burying A Problem

The Columbus Dispatch
Tuesday, Jul 4, 2006
Featuring Dr. Rattan Lal
Article

Central Asia Soil Carbon Network (CASCANet)

The CASCANet conducts research, extension, outreach, and training programs in Central Asia on C sequestration in soils and vegetation with a goal to improve soil quality, increase agronomic productivity, restore degraded soils and ecosystems, decrease non-point source pollution, improve water use efficiency, enhance ecosystem C budget, and reduce the net rate of enrichment of atmospheric CO2 by off-setting industrial emissions. The CASCANet facilitates exchange of scientists and students, collates and disseminates scientific information, creates awareness about the importance of terrestrial C sequestration to sustainable management of natural resources, liaises with land managers and policy makers, and establishes cross-linkages among stake holders in Central Asia. The CASCANet is identifying ways to minimize C loss from the ecosystem and maximize retaining C in soils and vegetation, thereby reducing the effects of CO2 and other GHGs (CH4, N2O) on global climate change, and improving environment quality. See the brochure [PDF file].

Translational Plant Science Proposal
College of Biological Sciences
College of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Science
Summary

Center for Climate and Water Studies Proposal
College of Mathematical and Physical Science
College of Social and Behavior Sciences
The Byrd Polar Institute
The John Glenn Institute

NSF/IGRET Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship in Climate Change
CIRIT Climate Change was invited to submit a full NSF proposal to IGERT program (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship) on Climate Change Science, Impact, Mitigation and Policy. If awarded it will fund a new Ph D. program with full funding for graduate students over 5 years. The Principal Investigators are Rattan Lal, Richard K. Hermann, C. K. Shum, Lonnie G. Thompson, and Andrea D. Wolfe. For more information see the article in the Winter 2006 Newsletter.

2005 Tyler Prize Lonnie Thompson, Professor of Geological Sciences at The Ohio State University, is one of two scientists to win the 2005 Tyler Prize, an award regarded by some in the field as equivalent to a Nobel Prize.Tyler Prize officials noted that Thompson was a leading national spokesman on the subject of global climate change, and is considered one of the most respected voices in the world on related policy issues. For the past three decades, Thompson, along with his wife and research partner Ellen-Mosley-Thompson, have argued that the first real evidence of an increase in global temperatures will come with the melting of tropical ice caps and glaciers. Thompson received his award, signified by a gold medallion and $100,000 at ceremonies in April at the University of Southern California, stewards of the award program.

2005 Norman Borlaug Award Rattan Lal , internationally recognized soil scientist was one of two recipients of the 2005 Norman Borlaug Award presented on March 16, during the Centenary celebrations of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) in New Delhi, India. Dr. Lal was praised for his foresighted and visionary research which has influenced soil practices on three continents. Dr. Lal received his MS (soils) degree from the IARI and his Ph.D. from Ohio State. In addition to his faculty and administrative duties, he lectures nationally and internationally. A prolific writer, Dr. Lal is the author of more than 1,000 scientific articles and 9 books.

2005/06 Post-Doctoral Researcher
Juan J. Jiménez, currently working under the supervision of Dr. Lal [See full announcement]

March 3, 2005
Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Richard L. Sandor
“Creating a Market for Greenhouse Gas Emissions” [Lecture Notes]

US Environmental Protection Agency
Global Warming: News and Events [Enter site]