Bio-char and Terra Preta at AAAS-2006
At the Annual Meeting of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in St. Louis, MO, February 15-19 2006, a symposium was held on "Amazonian Dark Earths - New Discoveries". This session was organized by Kent Mathewson and William Woods, and featured four speakers: Eduardo Neves (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Susanna Hecht (University of California at Los Angeles, USA), Beata Madari (Embrapa, Brazil), and Johannes Lehmann (Cornell University, USA). The session received much interest and a separate Press Conference was organized (see coverage below).
Eduardo Góes Neves (Speaker), Universidade de São Paulo
Terra Preta do Indio: The Archaeological Past |
Susanna B. Hecht (Speaker), University of California, Los Angeles
Terra Preta: The Ethnographic Past and Present |
Beáta Emöke Madari (Speaker), Embrapa Solos Ministério da Agricultura, Brasil
Understanding Indian Black Earths: A Pedological and Agronomic Approach |
Johannes Lehmann (Speaker), Cornell University
Terra Preta: Meeting Challenges of Soil Degradation and Climate Change |
Terra Preta panelists at the AAAS Press Conference:
(from left to right: moderator, Bill Woods, Eduardo Neves, Beata Madari, Johannes Lehmann (for Press Release and Statement by Lehmann click here)
Terra Preta meeting in the Press
Radio:
Science Update (http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2006/0218amazon.shtml)
The Inoculated Mind Radio UC Davis,
(link to this radiostation: http://www.inoculatedmind.com)
Print and Online:
Cornell Chronicle* (http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Feb06/AAAS.terra.preta.ssl.html)
NBC* http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11522955/
The Star (http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1140824432285&call_pageid=970599119419) Chemistry World (http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2006/February/20020601.asp)
YubaNet (http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_31869.shtml)
NewsWise* (http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/518130/)
Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,185732,00.html)
Innovations Report (http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/report-55516.html)
Live Science (http://www.livescience.com/environment/060222_amazon_soil.html)
Planet Save (http://planetsave.com/ps_mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6734&Itemid=68)
Folha Online (http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ciencia/ult306u14294.shtml)
Ciencia Online (http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ciencia/ult306u14288.shtml)
Caracol Noticias (http://www.caracolnoticias.com/tecnologia/noti_tecnologia.asp?id_sw=67361)
Die Welt (http://www.welt.de/data/2006/02/18/847587.html), pdf of printed newspaper here.
NewsWise (http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/518130/?sc=rssn)
Life Science (http://www.livescience.com/environment/060222_amazon_soil.html)
Science News* pdf here
Sonntagszeitung* (Switzerland), 12 March 2006, pdf here
BioScience*, April 2006, Vol 56, page 368, pdf here
(the articles with an * are the more comprehensive and interesting ones)
The day before the Terra Preta Symposium, Bill Woods organized a wonderful trip to the famous Cahokia excavations, right outside St. Louis. And again, it has all to do about agriculture:
(from left to right: Bill Woods, Kent Mathewson, Eduardo Neves; on the way to Cahokia)
(from left to right: Kent Mathewson, Beata Madari, Eduardo Neves, Bill Woods; in the background Cahokia's Monks Mound)
(from left to right: Eduardo Neves, Johannes Lehmann, Beata Madari on Monks Mound)
