The Dahlia Greidinger Memorial Fund and The United States-Israel Binational Agricultual Research and Development Fund announce the Dahlia Greidlinger International Symposium 2013 March 4-7, 2013 in Technion-IT, Haifa, Israel.  The conference will focus on Advanced methods for investigating nutrient dynamics in soil and ecosystems.  Abstracts are due by November 20, 2012. 
The main objective of this symposium is to re-examine knowledge gaps and R&D priorities, to better cope with the needs to quantify nutrient dynamics and reaction mechanisms, particularly those of nitrogen and phosphorus in crop/food production systems, with special emphasis on interactions with organic loads/wastes and under possible global changes (warming and/or rainfall/ water scarcities), and the urgent need to assure sustainable crop/food production with minimal environmental threats. Special emphasis will be put on advanced and novel tools and approaches (including those developed in other disciplines) enabling real time/online investigation and quantification of processes and referring to options to observe and model changes at various scales (from nano/micro up to field scale). Tools and methods leading to improved and sustainable utilization of nutrients will be presented and discussed as well.