Time for a Universal Soil Classification System Jon Hempel for Micheal L Golden Director Soil Survey Division Natural Resources Conservation Service United States Department of Agriculture November 2, 2010 Soil Science Society of America 2010 International Annual Meeting Long Beach, California
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Time for a Universal Soil Classification System
Jon Hempel forMicheal L Golden
DirectorSoil Survey Division
Natural Resources Conservation ServiceUnited States Department of Agriculture
November 2, 2010
Soil Science Society of America2010 International Annual Meeting
Long Beach, California
Time for a Universal Soil Classification System
Co-Authors• Dr. Erika Micheli, Szent Istvan University, Gödöllő, Hungary• Dr. Alex McBratney, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia• Dr. Luca Montanarella, European Commission, JRC, Ispra, Italy• Dr. Ganlin Zang, State Key Laboratory of Soil & Sustainable Agriculture, ISSCAS, Nanjing, China• Dr. Peter Schad, Techniche Universitat Munchen, Freising, Germany• Dr. Philip Owens, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA• Mr. Jonathan Hempel, Director, NSSC, NRCS-USDA, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA• Dr. Craig Ditzler, NRCS-USDA (Retired)• Dr. Hari Eswaran, NRCS-USDA (Retired)
Time for a Universal Soil Classification System
Topics
• Background• Soil Systems • Possible Approach• Recommendations • Summary
For thogh we slepe or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nil no man abyde. (1390 Chaucer Clerk’s Tale 1. 118)
“Time and tide wait for no man”
Soil Science, unlike many other disciplines, does not have a Universally accepted Classification System.(About 50 different soil classification systems globally)
Efforts Made by• FAO-World Soil
Classification• WRB • Soil Taxonomy• Many Others
• This Goal Has NOT
been achieved
Time for a Universal Soil Classification System
• Most Natural Sciences have– Common Classification System
• Botany• Anthropology• Astronomy
• Natural Classification Systems are– Accepted & used Globally– “Soil Classification” is viewed as a National
System yet to have international acceptance
is to provide a Common Understanding & Language for Communication
Common Reasons Given For a Universal System
Time for a Universal Soil Classification System
• International Politics “That Hampered Collaboration”– Over last Century - Personalities have
“Mellowed”– Movement has been for more
“Harmony”– Time is Ripe for Acceptance of
• Standard Soil Terminology• Standard Classification
“Bridging the Centuries” Conference in Gödöllő, Hungary-September 2009
Declaration to “IUSS”
Bridging the Centuries“Declaration”
• Soil Science Lacks Commonly Accepted & Used Terminology– Field Descriptions & Laboratory