Soil Profiles: September 2009 issue

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September 2009 Soil Profiles contents

• NSCSS Scholarship Awards and SSSA Cooperative Efforts by Larry Baldwin
  
  "NSCSS is working to establish a permanent endowment with the SSSA to perpetually fund this scholarship for the future"
• NSCSS Professional Practice Survey by Joe Schuster
  
  "Sixty percent responded that the recession had pushed them to diversify their services."
• Carolinas Chapter Webpage
  
  "Easier and more organized collaboration among our members..."
• New members
• Agenda 2010 Annual Meeting, March 3-6, 2010 Amelia Island, Florida and Cumberland Island, Georgia
• Soil Scientists’ Relationships with Engineers by Frank Watts
  
  "In an effort to discredit the shallow ...[seasonal high water table]... determinations in poorly drained soils, ...[engineers]... would dig holes in these soils during dry periods when the water table was much deeper..."
• Appointments
• Collegiate Soil Judging
• North Carolina: Legislating to Prevent Conflicts of Interest by Philip Small
  
  In the crosshairs: "Regulator soil scientists who consult on the side"
• Florida: As I Saw It Regarding How Senate Bill 1318 Transpired and the Bill Analysis by Frank Watts
  
  "An inequity has been created because now persons working under the 'direct responsible charge' of a licensed engineer are exempted from the ... requirements which apply to soil scientists..."
• The Global Soil Map Project by Jim Knutson
  
  "...continuum-enabled rasterized soil maps, derived from vector maps..."
• RPSS Update by Pierre Bordenave
• Hubert Byrd NSCSS Scholarship Fund
• Group Insurance - Professional Liability for Errors and Omissions
• In Passing