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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:18px">We are very pleased to announce the full speaker line-up for the March conference. There will be eight different presentations, all having to do with soil carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation.
We have speakers coming from many different angles and perspectives including scientific research, policy/regulatory frameworks, and regenerative agriculture. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/soil-carbon-storage-combating-climate-change-from-the-ground-up-registration-253163929127?aff=ebdsoporgprofile" title="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/soil-carbon-storage-combating-climate-change-from-the-ground-up-registration-253163929127?aff=ebdsoporgprofile" style=""><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255)">Registration
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<strong style="font-weight:normal">KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Rattan Lal </strong>is an entrepreneur, a distinguished university professor, and a globally renowned soil scientist. Currently, Lal is the Director of the CFAES Rattan Lal Center for Carbon Management
and Sequestration at the Ohio State University. Dr. Lal received the Glinka World Soil Price in 2018, the World Food Prize in 2020, the Good Will Ambassador of IICA in 2020, and the Padma Shri Award in 2021. His research interests are in regenerative agriculture,
soil carbon sequestration, soil restoration, natural resource management, and global food security. President Biden appointed Lal as a Member of the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development in January 2022.<br>
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<strong style="font-weight:normal">Gillian Davies and Keith Zaltzberg-Drezdahl (BSC Group): </strong><em style="font-weight:normal">Making it happen: Three case studies for increasing soil carbon storage and fighting climate change</em><br>
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<strong style="font-weight:normal">Emily Cole and Julie Fine (American Farmland Trust):</strong> <em style="font-weight:normal">Advancing Farmer Adoption of Regenerative Agriculture</em><br>
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<strong style="font-weight:normal">Hillary Sullivan (Woodwell Climate Research Center):</strong> <em style="font-weight:normal">The impact of runelling as a hydrologic restoration strategy on salt marsh carbon decomposition</em><br>
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<strong style="font-weight:normal">Stacy Minihane</strong> <strong style="font-weight:normal">(Beals & Thomas Inc.)</strong>: <em style="font-weight:normal">Soil Carbon Sequestration in the Massachusetts Regulatory Framework</em><br>
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<strong style="font-weight:normal">Kaitlin Farbotnik and Joshua Beniston (USDA): </strong><em style="font-weight:normal">Improving soil health for urban agriculture by managing soil carbon</em><br>
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<strong style="font-weight:normal">David Aiken (University of Nebraska):</strong> <em style="font-weight:normal">Ag Carbon Credits</em><br>
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<strong style="font-weight:normal">Meagan Eagle (USGS)</strong>: <em style="font-weight:normal">Impact of historic hydrologic manipulation and recent restoration on coastal wetland soil carbon</em></div>
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