The second meeting was in Washington, DC with the head of the National Science Foundation. She and many of her associates met with heads and chairs of geoscience departments to look ahead at the NSF budget and at problems and opportunities facing the geosciences. The good news is that soil was on many of their lips. Let me rephrase that, the word soil was on many of their lips. The word is out.
Soils are important.
Be sure to sign up for the picnic day picnic. Have a fine spring. Congratulations to Christian Carleton for his M.S. student presentation at the Society for Range Management annual meeting in Kona, Hawaii. There were 26 M.S. students competing for this award. In case you haven't noticed the entry way in Hoagland hall, there has been several beautiful arrangements of flowers lately.