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<p class="MsoNormal">Apologies to anyone who has seen this already but TomKat Ranch is holding a soil data conference and hackathon using the MODUS vocabulary that folks might be interested in!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have a conflict so won’t be attending but this looks like it is an interesting approach. If anyone does go I would please give us a report out!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-Kathe<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Katherine Todd-Brown, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Assistant Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Environmental Engineering Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">University of Florida </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Wendy Millet <wendy@tomkatranch.org> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 14, 2022 2:53 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Wendy Millet <wendy@tomkatranch.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> ONLINE EVENT - “Fixing the Soil Health Tech Stack” August 23rd - 24th<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Friends,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">A</span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#111516"> robust soil sampling effort is currently taking place at TomKat Ranch. In addition to our ongoing monitoring with Point Blue
Conservation Science’s Rangeland Monitoring Network, thousands of new samples are being collected by The Soil Health Inventory Project. These samples will be analyzed for soil carbon percentage and bulk density by several soil labs and will create a robust
data layer across multiple pastures where TomKat has applied different regenerative treatment regimes.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#111516">This soil data will provide the foundation of data to be used in the Soil Data Hackathon, which will run in parallel with a two-day virtual conference
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">called <b><i>Fixing the Soil Health Stack
</i></b></span><b><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#111516">on Tuesday, August 23rd - Wednesday, August 24th</span></b><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#111516">. These events are hosted by
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Farm Foundation in partnership with The Soil Health Institute, The Mixing Bowl, Purdue Open Ag Technology & Systems Center (OATS), Semios, and the Soil Health Inventory Project.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#111516">Designed to fast-track meaningful progress toward easing the movement of soil data between samplers, analysts, and those taking action in the field—bridging soil data interoperability, calibration,
and standardization—</span><i><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">Fixing the Soil Health Tech Stack</span></i><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black"> is comprised of three interwoven activities:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:Roboto">The Soil Sampling Campaign</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">
<span style="font-family:Roboto">The Soil Data Hackathon</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">
<span style="font-family:Roboto">The “Fixing the Soil Health Tech Stack” Virtual Conference</span><o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">Please join us and many others to lend your knowledge and experience to solving gaps that exist in harmonizing soil data collection and analysis. If you know others in your network who may be
interested, please forward this invitation along!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">To register, please click here -</span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__farmfoundation.swoogo.com_soilhealthtech&d=DwMGaQ&c=sJ6xIWYx-zLMB3EPkvcnVg&r=cG4e22DhE_24WgV67TY07bX35Pu84XKMIq_1hkQnll4&m=oLPcRfXbmEwW7VZtyaNJ9-P7GoyWZqeovLF3ztHqnskDLkehsAsfZvdliItllg63&s=TzLzK6H84_QNihPIwwlM7UmqiblUYf0q7Y6wFO6DUQQ&e="><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">
</span><span style="font-family:Roboto">https://farmfoundation.swoogo.com/soilhealthtech</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Cheers,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Wendy</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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