Presentations | 2nd EUROSOLAN meeting
Zoom platform, 30 September - 2 October 2020
30 September 2020
Opening, endorsement of the agenda
Item 1. Global Soil Laboratory Network updates - Ms. Nopmanee Suvannang, GLOSOLAN Chair
Session 1: External quality control
Item 2. How to take action after participating in a PT - Christian Hartmann, IRD, France and Michael Watts (BGS, United Kingdom)
- The case of Malawi - Mr. Wesley Feldmann, FES – Agricultural Laboratory, Malawi
- The case of Nigeria (tbc) - Mr. Egbe Williams, National Soil Laboratory, Federal Ministry Of Agriculture And Rural Development Kaduna, Nigeria
Item 3. Downscaling GLOSOLAN PTs
- The case of Ethiopia - Mr. Musefa Redi Abegaz, Holeta Agricultural Research Center, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Ethiopia
- The case of Belgium - Mr. Clémence Mariage, Axe Echanges Eau-Sol-Plantes, GxABT, Liege University, Belgium
Item 4. Establishment of the National Soil Laboratory Networks (NASOLAN) - Mr. Filippo Benedetti, GSP Secretariat
Item 5. Case studies on the establishment of NASOLAN
- Mozambique Soil Laboratory Network - Mr. Ricardo Marcus de Jesus Maria, Institute of Agricultural Research of Mozambique, Central Soil and Plant tissue testing Laboratory, Mozambique
- Hungarian Soil Laboratory Network - Ms. Ágnes Nagy, Food Chain Safety Centre Non-profit Ltd., Soil Conservatory Laboratory, Velence, Hungary
- Zimbabwe Soil Laboratory Network - Mr. Washington Mutatu, Zimbabwe Sugar Association Experiment Station, Agricultural Chemistry & Soil Laboratory, Zimbabwe
- Ukrainian Soil Laboratory Network - Mr. Maksym Solokha, Laboratory of Instrumental Soil Research Methods of the National Scientific Center “Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry Research named after O.N. Sokolovsky”, Kharkiv, Ukraine
- Nigerian Soil Laboratory Network - Mr. Egbe Williams, National Soil Laboratory, Federal Ministry Of Agriculture And Rural Development Kaduna, Nigeria
- Walloon laboratory network - Mr. Clémence Mariage, Axe Echanges Eau-Sol-Plantes, GxABT, Liege University, Belgium
Item 6. A small fish in a small sea – The perspective of a private soil testing laboratory in Portugal - Mr. Alan Evans, A2 Análises Químicas, Portugal
Thursday, 1 October 2020
Session 2: Equipment purchasing, use and maintenance
Item 7. Good practices on purchasing and operating laboratory equipment - Ms. Lesego Mooketsi-Selepe, AFRILAB Vice-Chair
Item 8. Procurement of laboratory equipment - Ms. Lucrezia Caon, GSP Secretariat
- Presentation of the survey’s results
- GLOSOLAN experience on procurement
Item 9. Equipment installation, use a maintenance – good practices - Ms. Estefania Perez-Fernadez, Ms. Jessical Oliver and Mr. Leonardo Ramirez-Lopez, BUCHI Labortechnik AG, Switzerland
Friday, 2 October 2020
Item 10. Organization of EUROSOLAN inter-laboratory comparison exercises
- GLOSOLAN inter-laboratory comparison procedure - Mr. Christian Hartmann, IRD France
- The experience of the Joint Research Centre and example (tbc) - Mr. Luca Montanarella, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
Session 3: SOP harmonization
Item 11. An innovative approach to the harmonization of the SOPs in GLOSOLAN
- The case of the SOP on OC by Tyurin - Ms. Shamrikova Elena, Eco-analytical Laboratory, Department of Soil Science, Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch, Russian Federation
Session 4: Decision making session
- Decision on the SOPs to harmonize in 2021 and identification of regional leaders
- Opinion on the need to update the FAO Soils Bulletin 74 – “Guidelines for Quality Management in Soil and Plant Laboratories” - (http://www.fao.org/3/W7295E/W7295E00.htm)