Consider attending the upcoming short course on Organic Matter sponsored by CUAHSI and conducted at the ACRES facilities at Purdue university on October 20–21. 

http://www.conf.purdue.edu/landing_pages/czc/default.aspx

Four instructors from IML-CZO will teaching the course: Thanos Papanicolaou and Chris Wilson, both from The University of Tennessee Knoxville; Joshua Peschel from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Timothy Filley from Purdue University. Some of you may have seen the set-up with the rainfall experiments (and other toys) in the spring visit to Illinois.

Registration information and other pertinent information can be found:

http://www.cvent.com/events/the-role-of-runoff-and-erosion-on-soil-carbon-stocks-from-soilscapes-to-landscapes/event-summary-33def85a77064b69b4de85bdb2cf256a.aspx

The course precedes the U.S.-China EcoPartnership for Environmental Sustainability conference at Purdue University on October 22–24 In collaboration with the NSF Cross-CZO Working Group on Organic Matter. The course and the conference offer a great opportunity for cross-CZO intermingling!