Northeast Biochar Symposium to be held Nov. 13
The Northeast Biochar Symposium is being held Friday, Nov. 13 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. in the Campus Center Auditorium.
The event will highlight current research on biochar, a carbon-rich soil amendment that enhances soil fertility, sequesters carbon to help reverse global warming and increases renewable energy production. The program will also focus on technological advances and provide vital information to public officials, researchers, farmers and landscape professionals, green industry businesses and sustainable energy professionals. The symposium will provide a forum for the exchange of research findings, help to gain national media attention and stimulate discussion on biochar. It will also establish a Northeast Biochar Research Consortium.
Keynote speakers will include David A. Laird of the National Soil Tilth Laboratory, USDA Agricultural Research Service; Johannes Lehmann of the crop and soil sciences department at Cornell University and chair of the International Biochar Initiative and co-editor of Biochar for Environmental Management; Debbie Reed, executive director of the International Biochar Initiative, and Christoph Steiner, of the biological and agricultural engineering department at the University of Georgia.
This event is open to everyone and is free to UMass faculty, students and staff. Registration for individuals is $130. Student registration is $90. There is an optional dinner with an additional fee of $35.
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November 8, 2009.
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