Session 1 - General Soil Science. Room: Aurora Convenors: Tariq Siddique, Scott Chang
13:00-13:15	Wenjie Chi*	Verify and Characterize the Effects of New N2-fixing inoculant for Use with Wheat, Canola, and Soybean
13:15-13:30	Xinli Chen	Plant diversity differentially affects soil phosphorus in bulk and rhizosphere soils
13:30-13:45	Maria Luna*	Characterization of soil geochemical and colour properties across two contrasting land uses
13:45-14:00	Emmanuel Mapfumo	Impacts of management change on organic carbon under perennial and annual grass-legume mixtures on a Black Chernozemic soil
14:00-14:15	Erika H. Young*	The impacts of rock pulverization on functional properties of boreal lands converted from forest to agricultural use
14:15-14:30	Discussion
14:30-15:00	Coffee break (sponsored by Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL))
15:00-15:15	Emmanuel Mapfumo	Pre-1980 versus post-1980 climate trends at Breton Plots, Alberta: is there any evidence of local climate change?
15:15-15:30	Jawaria Johar*	Phyto-microbial Remediation of PAHs and HMs Contaminated Soils using Biochar and Bacterial strains and metagenomic studies for PAH degrading genes
15:30-15:45	Alsu Kuznetsova	Soils as environmental reservoir of chronic wasting disease prions
15:45-16:00	Jingyu Zhang*	Quantification and visualization of soil health under long-term fertilizer and rotation treatments in Alberta
16:00-16:15	Joseph G. Crudo	The Long-Term Effects of Compaction and Organic Matter Removal on Forest Soil
16:15-16:30	Upama Khatri-Chhetri*	Adaptive multipaddock grazing reduces soil microbial complexity in Canadian prairie
16:30-16:45	Amana Jemal Kedir	Comparison of agri-environmental phosphorus tests for boreal agricultural and natural Podzols
16:45-17:00	Discussion

*Student presentation competing for the best presentation awards