The Campbell Lecture was created to help further understanding of environmental soil science.
It is named for Gaylon Campbell, who spent nearly 30 years as a professor of environmental biophysics and soil physics in the WSU’s crop and soil sciences department. He retired from WSU in 1998 to become vice president of engineering at Decagon Devices, a local manufacturer of biophysical research instrumentation.
The lecture was created through gifts from Campbell Scientific, Inc., and Decagon Devices, Inc.
Recent Campbell Lecture Presenters
2024
Kim Novick, Professor and the Paul H. O’Neill Chair, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
“PSInet: A New Network to Confront the Water Potential Information Gap”
October 7, 2:10-3:00 p.m., VBRB 305 and via Zoom
2024 Campbell Lecture flyer (pdf)
2023
Ning Lu, Professor,Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
‘Unitary Definition of Soil Water Potential’
September 25, 2:10 p.m in FSHN 354
2022
Cristine Morgan, Chief Scientific Officer, Soil Health Institute, Morrisville, N.C.
“Soil Structure and the Physics of Soil Health” (pdf)
April 7, 3:00 p.m. in VBRB 305
2021/2020
No lectures due to COVID
2019
Marco Bittelli, Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences University of Bologna, Italy
“Dielectric spectroscopy to investigate ice and frozen porous media: a journey between spatial and time scales” (pdf)
1:10-2:00 p.m. in Biotech. Life Sciences rm. 402
Reception to follow
2018
Keith Bristow, CSIRO, Townsville, Queenland, Australia
“Soil Physics and Hydrology: My Journey from Small to Large Scale and Back” (pdf)
2016
“Phenomics and the Rhizosphere” (pdf)
1:00-2:00 p.m.- Seminar by Chris Topp
2:30-3:30 p.m.- Seminar by Volkan Isler
2015
Zed Rengel, School of Agriculture and the Environment, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
“Exploring the World of Roots” (pdf)
2014
John Gamon, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta
“A New Look at Northern Photosynthesis: Monitoring Changing Productivity in Northern Terrestrial Biomes with Optical Remote Sensing” (pdf)
2013
Dani Or, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems-Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
“How Do Porous Terrestrial Surfaces Control Evaportation Into the Atmosphere?” (pdf)
2011
John Selker, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Oregon State University
“Discovery between the cracks: Measurements to address the unknowns of soil water dynamics and ecohydrology” (pdf)
2010
Dennis Baldocchi, Professor of Biometeorology at the University of California, Berkeley
“Why Ecologists Need Soil Physics, and Vice Versa” (pdf)
2009
John Norman, Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin
“Evapotranspiration Estimates on Scales From Canopies to Continents” (pdf)
2007
Daniel Hillel, International authority on sustainable management of soil and water resources and author
“The vital and challenging role of environmental soil science in an increasingly troubled world” (pdf)
2006
John Baker, USDA-ARS Soil & Water Management Unit, St. Paul, MN
“Biometeorology and Biofuels” (pdf)
2005
Part I: Masaru Mizoguchi,
“Soil Information Monitoring by Field Server” (pdf)
Part II: Takeshi Ishizaki,
“Study on Conservation of Cultural Properties in Asia” (pdf)
2004
Bob Horton, Iowa State University
“Advancing Environmental Investigations by Taming the Challenges Posed by Dynamic Surface Soil Properties” (pdf)
2003
Michael H. Hecht, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
“The Phoenix Mission to the Mars Polar Regions: Getting Down and Dirty” (pdf)
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