Tours and Workshops
Pre-conference Tour
Cost: <$800 total per person, paid by individuals to service providers except for $100 deposit mail to and payable to Mario Tenuta for vehicle rental
Registration: Spots still available. You will be booking your own rail tickets. Register with Mario Tenuta directly by email.
Monday July 22 All Day
Greenhouse Gas Field Workshop: morning and afternoon at the TGAS MAN Research Site and the Food and Farm Discovery Centre. Morning - in field demonstration of current and leading edge methods in greenhouse gas determinations. Afternoon - in room workshop covering various aspects of methodology improvements, instrumentation, data archiving and analysis, data sharing, and modeling.
Land and Watershed Tour: Full day tour. Morning visit to the National Centre for Livestock and the Environment and then Tobacco Creek Watershed Study Area. Contact: david.lobb@ad.umanitoba.ca
Tuesday July 23
Hermetic Code Tour (Legislative Building): 6-8pm. The Hermetic Code tour has been recognised by the Canadian Tourism Commission as one of Canada's signature experiences. Local scholar Frank Albo explains the architectural design of the Manitoba Legislative Building and the Masonic building elements that are hidden within. For more information on the tour, please visit: http://heartlandtravel.ca/hermeticcodetours.htm. Contact: marla.riekman@gov.mb.ca
Wednesday July 24
Thursday July 25 Afternoon
Using 31P-NMR Spectroscopy for Soil and Other Environmental Samples: 1:30 - 4:30pm Hotel Fort Garry. Advice for conducting experiments and interpreting spectra. (Cancelled due to lack of travel permission to organizer)
Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Program Workshop and Meeting: 1:30 - 4:30pm Hotel Fort Garry. Update and networking opportuniy for program research and administrative members. Note the session is not for technical presentations. Technical presentations are on a volunteer basis and within the technical program of the meeting. Contact: brian.amiro@ad.umanitoba.ca
Soil Science: The Centre of It All
CSSS/MSSS/CSAFM Joint Meeting
July 22-25 2013 in Winnipeg
The Heart of the Continent
