Editor's note: William Jury will be in Ames Sept. 12-13 and available for interviews. Contact Michael Thompson, agronomy, (515-294-2415 or mlthomps@iastate.edu) to schedule an appointment. More information about William Jury is available at http://envisci.ucr.edu/faculty/wajury/.

8/13/01

Contacts:
Michael Thompson, Agronomy, (515) 294-2415
Susan Thompson, Agriculture Information, (515) 294-0705

2001 PIERRE LECTURE IN SOIL SCIENCE SEPT. 12 AT IOWA STATE

AMES, Iowa -- An internationally renowned soil scientist will visit Iowa State University this fall to talk about the water needs of production agriculture. The 2001 Pierre Lecture in Soil Science will be given by William Jury on Sept. 12 in 2050 Agronomy Hall at 4:10 p.m.

Jury's speech is titled "The Emerging Global Water Crisis." He says that both industrialization and the needs of urban populations compete increasingly with agriculture for water. And that by the year 2025, 3 billion people will live in water-stressed areas, and dozens of countries will lack the water needed for food self-sufficiency.

Jury is a distinguished professor of soil physics and director of the graduate research unit in environmental sciences and engineering at the University of California at Riverside. His research interests are chemical movement and reactions in field soils and assessing losses of organic compounds from soil and water.

The Pierre Lecture Series honors the memory of William H. Pierre, who served as chair of the ISU agronomy department from 1938 until 1964. Jury's lecture will be the 15th in the Pierre Lecture Series. It is co-sponsored by the ISU Graduate College and the Iowa State Water Resources Research Institute.

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