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Soil Water Repellency Society
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"Soil water repellency is much more wide-spread than formerly thought..." Dekker et al.
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Welcome to the Soil Water Repellency Society The Soil Water Repellency Society is a not for profit organization established for the purpose of promoting awareness and exchange of information between interested individuals and organizations regarding the occurrence, understanding and management of water repellency in all soil types.
While the website is under construction, below are some related links and news releases.
If you are interested in knowing more about the Soil Water Repellency Society, please e-mail Demie Moore at info@waterrepellency.net
If you have suggestions for the society or website, please send them along as well.
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Some related links The Water Repellent Soils Project http://www.water-repellency.alterra.nl University of Wales Swansea http://geography.swan.ac.uk/hydrophobicity/ Origins of Water Repellency in Soils Bouyoucos2007 http://geography.swan.ac.uk/bouyoucos2007/ International Conference Biohydrology2006 http://www.ih.savba.sk/biohydrology2006/
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More Interesting Links  https://www.soils.org/smithsonian/ Preferential flow and transport processes in soil www.ito.ethz.ch/conferences/preferential-flow Bouyoucos Conference Photos www.picasaweb.google.com/demiemoorewater
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Water Repellency in the News Experts exchange information at first international biohydrology conference 12/13/2006 Golf Course Industry Magazine Biohydrology 2006, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic, Sept. 20-22, 2006 was the first international conference focused on the interrelationships between biological factors and soil hydrology. Scientists from a variety of disciplines and more than a dozen countries met to share information about management practices and biological changes in soil systems that are connected to water flow and transport processes in soils. There were numerous contributed presentations on various aspects of the development, assessment and amelioration of water repellency in soils – a characteristic of soils that is increasingly being recognized as a common phenomenon impacting hydrological functioning of soil systems. Additional presentations included understanding and managing changes in soil hydraulics from use of soil amendments, prevention and curing of localized dry spots in golf greens, the influence of vegetation on flow and transport processes, impacts of long term irrigation with effluent water, new discoveries on the hydrological impact of variability in soil physical characteristics, consideration of large scale – continental and even global – issues related to environmental impacts of land and water use, and the need for improving the availability of research information to educators and practitioners. The conference was organized by a number of European institutions and organizations concerned with hydrological processes in the environment. Key organizers were the Institute of Hydrodynamics of the Czech Republic, the Institute of Hydrology of Slovakia, Czech National Committee for Hydrology UNESCO, Slovak National IGBP Committee, Secondary Training Fishery College- Trebon, ALTERRA Research Institute of Wageningen University – NL, Scottish Crop Research Institute, and the University of Wales – Swansea. Joint organizers were the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, International Commission on Coupled Land-Atmosphere Systems, International Hydrological Programme of UNESCO, and the Czech Association of Scientific-Technical Societies. A dinner for conference attendees was jointly sponsored by Aquatrols and Wageningen University.
Soil Wetting Agents CD available GCSAA NewsWeekly Dec. 12, 2006 The Crop Science Society of America has a new practical learning tool on soil wetting agents available on CD. Soil Wetting Agents provides information on soil water repellency and how wetting agents work in an animated, color Power Point format complete with notes. It offers an integrated introduction to water chemistry, how water moves in soils, soil water repellency, soil wetting agent technology, and the use of soil wetting agents to address water repellency.
Although the use of soil wetting agents is common practice, a lack of basic applied information on soil water repellency and how wetting agents work has kept these topics from being addressed in turf management, soils, and irrigation education. The new CD, sponsored by the Turfgrass Division of CSSA, was produced to provide that information to those involved in all aspects of turfgrass, from those who are teaching students to those who are managing golf courses or athletic fields, to those who are selling or advising on product application.
The presentation includes 56 slides, and: - Combines disparate information on common turf maintenance phenomenon and management.
- Fills an information gap for professors, students, and practicing turf advisors/managers.
- Easy-to-use tool for staff training at golf courses, athletic fields and other turf facilities.
- Multiple-use format is well suited for self or group study. Print out the presentation as a text with pictures or display the active animated presentation on a screen.
“A recent survey showed that 98 percent of golf course superintendents use soil wetting agents to some extent. With the completion of this presentation, there is now an authoritative publication explaining how wetting agents work in certain turfgrass soils—this is a great resource,” says Dr. Keith J. Karnok, professor of turfgrass at the University of Georgia, and the editor of the publication.
“Soil Wetting Agents” can be purchased online from the CSSA Bookstore for $40 in either Windows or Macintosh format.
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