OVPR Events

Convened by the China-US Joint Research Center as a follow-up to its 2009 annual conference, a topical workshop on "Sustainable Management of Soil and Water Resources" was held on January 6-7, 2010 in Shenyang, China. The workshop was hosted by the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.  More than 70 scientists and students participated in the workshop; twenty-three oral and 10 poster presentations were made.

At the workshop, a China-US Joint Laboratory of Soil and Water was proposed and seven UT faculty members have been invited to be research faculty of the joint laboratory, which will focus on collaborative soil and water research and student exchanges in next three years.