President: Claudio Zaccone (sss@egu.eu)
Deputy President: Bas van Wesemael
(bas.vanwesemael@uclouvain.be)
Soil is the interface between the crust and atmosphere, and is the basis of life on earth. The impact of Soil Science to the society has probably never been as high as it is currently. The importance of soils in the Earth System must make us, the soil scientists, more noticeable at the EGU.
The aim of the SSS is to coordinate the EGU scientific programme on Soil Science and related activities. The SSS contributes actively with EGU by promoting scientific interchange and dissemination of activity carried out by members.
Open letter regarding presentations at EGU meetings
The EGU has issued an open letter to funding agencies and evaluation committees with information on the assessment of presentations given at its scientific meetings.
The letter details the three presentation types given at EGU General Assembly and states that the selection of the type of presentation is not based on any evaluation of the scientific value of the contribution. This letter emphasises that there is no distinction regarding the standing, quality or prestige of oral, poster, or PICO presentations.
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Obituary: Lily Pereg (1964–2019)
Lily Pereg, Deputy President and Programme Group Chair of the EGU Soil System Sciences (SSS) Division and Executive Editor of the SOIL journal, died tragically and unexpectedly earlier this month during a trip to Argentina.
Pereg was a microbiologist with 25 years of research experience and an associate professor at the School of Science and Technology, University of New England in Armidale, Australia. An EGU member since 2013, Pereg was elected to serve as president of the EGU SSS Division in Autumn 2017, a role she was due to take on in April this year.
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Soils at Imaggeo: shoot your soil!
Amazing soil pictures? Are you a photoartist? Share your work at Imaggeo, the open-access image repository of EGU.
Lorena M. Zavala (Univ. of Sevilla) holds a soil
aggregate composed of organic matter from a
peatland from the Wicklow Mountains (Ireland)
Recent awardees
- 2019
- Philippe Duchaufour Medal
The 2019 Philippe Duchaufour Medal is awarded to
Claire Chenu for outstanding research in the field of soil science, with special emphasis on pioneering conceptual work on the microbial-mineral interactions and organic matter dynamics in soil.
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- 2019
- Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Awards
The 2019 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Awards is awarded to
Bahar S. Razavi for outstanding contributions to the understanding of biogeochemical processes in terrestrial ecosystems, in particular the effects of abiotic factors on soil organic matter and nutrient cycling.
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- 2019
- Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards
The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards is awarded to
Arjun Chakrawal How does soil spatial heterogeneity affect decomposition kinetics?
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- 2019
- Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards
The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards is awarded to
Bruna Imai The role of Common Mycorrhizal Networks for nutrient allocation in Fagus sylvatica (European beech) trees
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- 2019
- Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards
The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards is awarded to
Ringo Schwabe The effect of the application of cell cultures and supernatants of PGPR (Arthrobacter oxydans) as soil additives on the phytoextraction of germanium and rare earth elements
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- 2019
- Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards
The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards is awarded to
Roisin O'Riordan The Soil-City Interface: Soil organic matter and ecosystem services
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- 2019
- Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards
The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards is awarded to
Theodor Bughici Field Crop Irrigation–Multi-Objective Optimization and Sensitivity to Weather Forecast Accuracy
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- 2018
- Philippe Duchaufour Medal
The 2018 Philippe Duchaufour Medal is awarded to
Yakov A. Pachepsky for outstanding research in the field of soil hydraulic properties and the fate of pathogens in soils, which greatly influenced the development of soil science.
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- 2018
- Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Awards
The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Awards is awarded to
Matthias Vanmaercke for his outstanding research on understanding the rates and impacts of soil erosion and catchment sediment export at regional and continental scales.
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- 2018
- Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards
The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards is awarded to
Cosimo Brogi Geophysics-based subsurface conceptualization for improved prediction of plant productivity beyond field scale
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- 2018
- Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards
The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards is awarded to
Mathieu Le Breton Landslide displacement monitoring with passive RFID
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- 2018
- Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards
The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards is awarded to
Mutez A. Ahmed Where do maize roots take up water? The importance of different root type
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- 2018
- Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards
The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards is awarded to
Paola M. Mafla Endara Colonization of a pristine soil environment – Microbial migration into micro-engineered Soil Chips buried in field soils
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- 2018
- Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards
The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards is awarded to
Thomas Laemmel Effect of local airflow on flux chamber measurements
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