EUROSOIL 2008

25-29 August 2008, Vienna/Austria

In co-operation between the soil science societies of Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia and Switzerland

Preliminary information

SYMPOSIA

1 Soil Organic Matter

2 Soils and Climate Change

3 Soil Erosion

4 Soil Compaction

5 Soil Desertification and
Salinisation

6 Soil and Water – Theory

7 Soil and Water -
Practical Applications

8 Soil Ecology –
Soil as Living Space

9 Forest Management and Soils

10 Advances in Soil Monitoring

11 Management of Contaminated
Soils: (1) Practical Applications

12 Management of Contaminated
Soils: (2) Concepts and Policy Development

13 Buffering Function of Soils

14 Organo-mineral Interactions

15 Soil Information Systems,
Regionalisation of Soil Data
Including Soil Associations

16 Soil Indicators

17 Land Use and Soil Protection

18 Urban and Anthropogenic Soils

19 Soil Forming Processes and
Soil Morphology

20 Soil Classification

21A Society's Demands for and
Perceptions of Soil Conservation

21B Soils and Societies in History

22 Education in Soil Science and
Raising Public Awareness

23 Rhizosphere Processes

24 Soil and GMOs

25 Memory Function of Recent and Palaeosoils

26 Pedometrics and Digital
Soil Mapping

27 Soil, Food Security
and Human Health

28 Soil Fertility and Environment

WORKSHOPS

W1 International and EU Soil Politics

W2 Humus as an Ecological Indicator

W3 EU Forest Soil Monitoring -
BIOSOIL

W4 European Soil Database

EXCURSIONS

- Soils under semiarid climate/ Austria/1day

- Paleosoils, dry loess-zone/Austria/1-2 days

- Forest soils, eastern edge of the Alps/Austria/1 day

- Croatia-Slovenia/3 days

- Southern Moravia/Chech Republic/1 day

- "Going back in time with Czech and Moravian soils"/Czech Republic/3 days

- Danubian Lowland/Slovakia/1 day

- Záhorie Lowland/Slovakia/1 day

- Volcanic mountains and the Turcianska inter-mountain basin/Slovakia/ 2 days

- Swiss/Austrian Excursion/(3 days)

Excursions will take place before, after and during the Congress

Scientific Committee

BLUM Winfried E.H. (A)

BASIC Ferdo (CRO)

BIELEK Pavol (SVK)

GERZABEK Martin (A)

KOZAK Josef (CZ)

LOBNIK Franc (SLO)

SCHULIN Rainer (CH)

VARALLYAY György (H)

Organising Committee

BLUM Winfried E.H. (A)

BAUMGARTEN Andreas (A)

BORUVKA Lubos (CZ)

ENGLISCH Michael (A)

FRANZIUS Volker (D)

FRIESL Wolfgang (A)

GAERTIG Thorsten (D)

GERZABEK Martin (A)

HUBER Sigbert (A)

KASAMAS Harald (A)

KISIC Ivica, (CRO)

KÖNIG Romana (A)

LEITGEB Ernst (A)

MICHELI Erika (H)

MONTANARELLA Luca (I)

PEHAMBERGER Alfred (A)

SOBOCKA Jaroslava (SVK)

STICH Robert (A)

TOBIAS Silvia (CH)

VIDIC Natasa (SLO)

We are pleased to invite all soil scientists and representatives of related sciences worldwide (not only Europeans!) to join us in this 3rd European Soil Conference in 2008, which takes place every 4 years (in a 2 years' intermittance with the WCSS).

Further information and contact:

http://www.ecsss.net/congress.htm

First circular and call for papers will be sent in January 2007