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