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Please join us for the Inaugural Berg Lectureship with Dr. Jo Handelsman

Dr. Jo Handelsman is the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and a Vilas Research Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Dr. Handelsman previously served as a science advisor to President Barack Obama.

A World Without Soil: Science and stewardship of our endangered natural resource

Humans depend on soil for 95 percent of global food production, yet we let it erode at unsustainable rates leaving vast tracts of farmland barren of topsoil and thus unable to support food production for a growing population. The crisis is worsened by the mutually reinforcing relationship between climate change and soil erosion, which generates a vicious cycle of environmental destruction. The good news is that we know how to stop soil erosion and replace destruction with a virtuous cycle of improving soil health and reducing greenhouse gases. All we need is the collective will to act.

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