Stellenbosch University Soil Scientists, Dr Andrei Rozanov and Ms Liezl Wiese (PhD candidate) jointly received the Soil Science Society of SA’s “Best Scientific Paper on Innovative New Technology” award at Combined Congress 2015 of the South African Soil Science, Horticulture, Agronomy and Weed Science societies held at Tramonto, George in January 2015.
Dr Andrei Rozanov with co-authors (L.Wiese and I. Ros) presented a paper on “Soil organic matter: constant, variable and unknown” suggesting a macroscopic statistical method to determine and monitor C content and particle density of soil organic materials. The approach will give further insights into organic matter decomposition and dynamics in soil.
Ms Liezl Wiese with co-authors (I. Ros, A. Rozanov, W.P. de Clercq and T. Seifert) presented a paper on “Soil carbon accounting in KZN midlands using vertical distribution functions”. She proposed a new approach towards soil carbon accounting, simplifying the procedure and reducing the amount of sampling by an order of magnitude to make soil carbon inventories an integral part of carbon foot-printing.
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