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4th IUSS Soil Classification Conference Field Tour Guidebook Biographical Sketches of Field Tour Presenters Joseph (“Joe”) Chiaretti Joe is a soil scientist with the USDA-NRCS and works on the soil survey standards staff at the National Soil Survey Center in Lincoln, Nebraska. He previously worked for 11 years conducting quality assurance on soil survey data in the States of California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Utah from the Northern Basin and Range MLRA regional office in Reno, NV. He has 19 years experience in field mapping and project management on 5 soil survey projects in the State of New Mexico and 3 short-term details in Florida and Montana with the Soil Conservation Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service. He worked on the soil survey of Shiprock Area NM-AZ, located on the Navajo Indian Reservation, throughout the entire project and authored the survey manuscript. Joe currently has responsibility for developing and maintaining NRCS soil science division handbooks and other technical documents and helped draft the eleventh edition of the Keys to Soil Taxonomy (2010). His main interest has always been in soil classification and he has primary responsibility to teach, interpret, and maintain soil taxonomy. He is chairing a task group on descriptive standards as part of the effort to develop a universal soil classification system. He received a Bachelor of Science in Agronomy from the Pennsylvania State University in 1978, is a 34year member of the Soil Science Society of America, and has been a Certified Professional Soil Scientist and Soil Classifier with ARCPACS since 1992. Joe loves dogs, traveling and exploring new places with his wife Deb, gardening, and occasionally catching fish. Patrick Cowsert Patrick is originally from Murphysboro, Illinois. 1993: MS from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, in Plant and Soil Science (water infiltration in reclaimed mine soils). 1993-1999: Soil Scientist with NRCS in Onawa, Iowa. Soil survey updates in Monona, Woodbury, and Crawford counties and Sampling pilot project with Iowa State University. 1999-2005: Project Leader/Resource Soil Scientist in Omaha, Nebraska. Soil survey updates for Washington, Douglas, and Sarpy counties and technical soil services to 8 counties eastern Nebraska. 2005-present: Resource Soil Scientist in Stanton, Nebraska. Provide technical soil services to 25 counties in northeast Nebraska (MLRA 107B, 106, 63B, 65, 66). 186
4th IUSS Soil Classification Conference Field Tour Guidebook Richard Lensch Richard Lensch, retired, worked 36 years as a soil scientist for NRCS. He has extensive experience throughout Iowa where he has worked in 12 counties. He has also served as Resource soil scientist for 2 years in Fort Dodge, Iowa. He wrote 4 soil survey manuscripts that include Cass, Adams, Hancock, and Woodbury Counties. Richard has been retired for a year and a half. Shawn McVey Shawn is a Soil Scientist at the National Soil Survey Center, USDA-NRCS. Received a Master of Science in Soil Classification from the Plant Science Department at the University of Connecticut and a Bachelor of Science in Agronomy from Iowa State University. Currently, and since 2010, Shawn works at the National Soil Survey Center on the Soil Survey Standards staff where he provides training coordination and maintenance of soil survey technical standards. Previous professional experience includes conducting subaerial and subaqueous soil surveys, authoring two soil survey manuscripts, providing Farm Bill technical soil services in Idaho, Montana, Connecticut and Rhode Island, perfecting conservation easements for the Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program and teaching Soil Formation and Classification at the University of Connecticut as an adjunct faculty member in the Plant Science Department. Shawn has volunteered for three soil survey details throughout Idaho and Montana as well as served a detail to Vermont to assist with programmatic requirements of Farm Bill programs. Shawn has served as the AAPI SEPM in CT and was elected to the APIO National Council in 2009 as the East Region Representative. He has returned to the National Council as the Northern Plains Representative and serves as the current AAPI SEPM in Nebraska. Shawn is a Lifetime member of the Asian Pacific Islander Organization, member of the Soil Science Society of America and certified by ARCPACS, the national soil science certification authority, as a Certified Professional Soil Classifier. Dan Pulido Work Experience Dan Pulido is a Soil Scientist with the NRCS and is currently an MLRA Project Leader stationed in Atlantic, Iowa. He is responsible for MLRAs 107A, 107B, and 108D, which are dominantly located in the western third of Iowa. He has worked 13 years with the USDA—11 years with NRCS and 2 years with ARS. He was also the Project Leader for two soil survey update counties on the Des Moines Lobe in MLRA 103. Education • 1999 B.S. Agronomy—Soils Emphasis- Iowa State University • 2001 M.S. in Soil Morphology and Genesis- Iowa State University 187
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