The Symposium is for a community of people as diverse as soils. We come together through our experiences, relationships, and interactions with soils. Biospheric workings sculpt crustal fragments of the earth into matrices of crumbs, pores & capillaries. Microbial films & branching hyphae establish a membrane circuitry, through which carbon flows, powering the biogeochemical cycles, dynamic workings of soils. Let’s look together to redefine, to rediscover, dynamic workings of soils What is your definition of soils? What are soils to you?

Featured Events:

• Welcome by USI and Co-hosts RUDN & TreePeople

• Meeting Ground, a performance by Susan Main and MJ Neuberger

• Questions for Soils: Mission and layout of the symposium & workshops for this month and year; objectives and strategies. An invitation for your feedback

• Walking through Layered Histories and Emergent Horizons with Dr. Margot Lystra

• Karen Vaughan, Associate Professor of Soil Pedology, University of Wyoming

• Discussion with Happy Hour and Special Appearance by FunGuy