Volume 55 No 2 April 2007 - New Zealand Society of Soil Science

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y Peter Almond and Laura Buckthought (BSc Hons) “Nitrate sources and fate and N2O fluxes on the Ashburton River”, supervised by Tim Clough, Frank Kelliher (Landcare Research) and Rob Sherlock Each year the Centre for Soil and Environmental Quality awards prizes to the top three students studying Soil Science subjects at the 100, 200 and 300 levels. The awards are designed to recognize excellence and to encourage the students to continue to excel in their study of soil science subjects. Many of the past award winners have gone on to study for Honours, Masters and PhD degrees. We are again delighted to award prizes (a certificate and book vouchers) to the top students that studied soil science at Lincoln University during 2006. LINCOLN UNIVERSITY SOIL SCIENCE PRIZE WINNERS (AND STAFF) 2006 Back row: Jim Moir, Graeme Buchan, Tim Clough. 2 nd row: Rob Sherlock (Group Leader), Peter Almond, Roger McLenaghen, Nathan Paton, Rhys Hamilton, Brendon Malcolm, William Henson. Front row: Keith Cameron, Sean Gresham, Laure Buckthought, Fiona Sinclair. Absent: Alan Shand, Oliver Polson, NadineRestieaux. Ensis A press release on the “Nitrogen leaching from gorse and its impact on water quality” was well received nation-wide. It was well covered by major newspapers in New Zealand, and a number of enquiries from local governments and government departments. Guna Magesan believes this could become a national project sometime soon. New Zealand Land Treatment Collective (LTC) annual conference was held from 14 to 16 March 2007 in Rotorua. The theme of the conference was "Nutrient removal and water quality issues". More than 110 delegates from various research institutes, universities, central government agencies, regional councils and district councils, as well as consultants and private operators participated in the conference. They enjoyed the conference with high value presentations and as well as field tour throughout Rotorua’s area. During the field tour, on-site wastewater treatment plant trials, long-term effluent application, vermi-composting of industrial wastes, water quality management of lakes and nutrient management of intensive dairy farming in lake catchments were discussed. 77
The technical committee believes that this was the best conference ever organised by LTC. Congratulations to Michael Quintern, the technical manager of LTC, who had organised this conference. Members of Ensis, Hailong Wang and Robert Bagnall helped with the conference. Ensis and ESR recently organised the third Ensis-ESR joint Biosolids end-users meeting in Rotorua on 13 March 2007. There were over 40 participants in the third joint end-users meeting. Majority of them also attended LTC conference. Together with Bay of Plenty Polytechnic and Alison Lowe of the Rotorua District Council, Hailong Wang organized field tour on environmental monitoring for the third year students from the Auckland University of Technology. Guna Magesan was invited to present a paper on “Nitrogen management using a low-cost technology” at the Rotorua Farms Research Field Day on 19 April 2007. It was organised by the Rotorua Lakes and Land Trust, with the financial support from the Ministry for the Environment and Sustainable Farming Fund. Various CRIs, farmers, councillors, and some general public participated. Ensis Vermicomposting Research Centre has been attracting visitors continuously since its operation begun. Michael Quintern and Guna Magesan are leading the project. Vermicomposting of different wastes was an attractive project during the recent “Science in the Park” open day organised by Scion. About 4000 Rotorua public visited the camp, and the children took some worms for their backyard composting of wastes. Similar response was received during the “Sustainability week” at Scion, and during the “Green Team” holiday programme. Guna Magesan was invited to write a book chapter for a book entitled “Use of treated sewage water in agriculture: impacts on crop and soil environment” to be published by Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK. A number of W2R programme members have been invited to referee publications in various international peer-reviewed journals. Programme Leader has been invited to a write a book review on “Plantations and Protected Areas in Sustainable Forestry” edited by Price et al., the Haworth Press, USA nzsss Minutes of a meeting of the NZSSS Council held on Monday 30th March 2007 at 10 am in the seminar meeting room at HortResearch in Palmerston North Present: A.Mackay (Chair); B. Clothier; A. Hewitt; R. Mclenaghen; C. de Klein; P. Fraser (Minutes); G. Magesan; P. Singleton; I. Vogeler; I. Vanderkolk; L. Schipper, J. Adams; Apologies: None Minutes of previous Meeting “That the minutes of the August meeting be confirmed as a true and accurate record” Matters arising from Minutes RSNZ – to be discussed further during meeting - as listed as part of agenda Showcasing NZ Soils – on agenda John organised Lynne Mason’s farewell Chair - carried Chair -carried 78
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