Chairs:  Harry Vereecken, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, Julich, Germany and Jan W Hopmans, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States 
Primary Conveners:  Jan Vanderborght, Inst Agrosphere IBG 3, Juelich, Germany 
Co-conveners:  Jan W Hopmans, Univ California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Harry Vereecken, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, Julich, Germany 
OSPA Liaisons:  Andrea Schnepf, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Agrosphere (IBG 3), Jülich, Germany 
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Heat and Water Transport in Soils and Across the Soil-Atmosphere Interface: Comparison of Model Concepts.
			
			
			
				
					Jan Vanderborght1, Kathleen M Smits2, Klaus Mosthaf3, Thomas Fetzer4, Ebrahim Shahraeeni1 and Rainer Helmig4, (1)Agrosphere Institute (IBG-3) Forschungszentrum Jülich, Deutschland, Germany, (2)Engineering Research Center for Re-Inventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt), National Science Foundation, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Technical University of Denmark - Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, (4)University of Stuttgart, Dept. of Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems, Stuttgart, Germany
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Estimating Soil Cation Exchange Capacity from Soil Physical and Chemical Properties
			
			
			
				
					Sayed M. Bateni, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Samad Emamgholizadeh, Shahrood University, Department of  Water and Soil, Shahrood, Iran and Davoud Shahsavani, Shahrood University of Technology, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Shahrood, Iran
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Long-term, high precision lysimeter network an important tool to validate soil models
			
			
			
				
					Thomas Puetz1, Ute Wollschläger2, Jannis Groh1, Horst Herbert Gerke3, Eckart Priesack4, Ralf Kiese5, Erik Borg6 and Harry Vereecken7, (1)Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany, (2)Umweltforschungszentrum Leibzig -UFZ, Leibzig, Germany, (3)Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Müncheberg, Germany, (4)Helmholtz Center Munich, Oberschleissheim, Germany, (5)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, (6)German Aerospace Center DLR Cologne, Cologne, Germany, (7)Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, Julich, Germany
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Long-term lessons on pesticide leaching obtained via the Danish Pesticide Leaching Assessment Programme
			
			
			
				
					Annette E Rosenbom1, Preben Olsen2, Finn Plauborg2, Ruth Grant3, René K. Juhler1, Walter Brüsch1 and Jeanne Kjær1, (1)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark, (2)Aarhus University, Department of Agroecology, DK-8830 Tjele, Denmark, (3)Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, DK-8600 Silkeborg, Denmark
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Experimental and Numerical Study of Soil Moisture Dynamics Above a Moving Water Table
			
			
			
				
					Wencong Lai1, Fred L Ogden2, Robert Christian Steinke1, Jianting Zhu1 and Cary Alan Talbot3, (1)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (2)Univ. of Wyoming - Dept 3295, Laramie, WY, United States, (3)U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory,, Vicksburg, MS, United States