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Project Development

Task Objectives

The major objectives are:

1. To launch the task by putting together a soil geochemistry workshop, convened in partnership with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), involving the key parties from governmental agencies, private industry, and academia to 1) exchange information regarding needs for soil geochemical data and how each agency/industry meets these needs, 2) develop working relationships, and 3) establish priorities for the future conduct of the project. From this workshop, we also plan to name an advisory board to provide commentary and oversight on task development and outreach for the project.
2. Conduct an inventory to locate all available regional-scale soil geochemical data sets and make these data sets available on a web site.
3. Develop soil standard reference materials to assure that high-quality data is produced by the project.
4. Establish sample collection, sample preparation, and analytical methodologies that can be confidently employed throughout the life of the project.

Statement of Work

The primary goals of the project for FY2007 will be to generate publications relating to our pilot studies (Task 11). These papers will be published in a special issue of the journal Applied Geochemistry in 2008. In addition, we hope to begin sampling in a limited number of states for the soil geochemical survey of North America.

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