{"id":653,"date":"2023-10-25T18:53:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T16:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuss.org\/?p=653"},"modified":"2023-10-25T19:06:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T17:06:13","slug":"iuss-alert-145","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iuss.org\/alert\/iuss-alerts-2017-2020\/iuss-alert-145\/","title":{"rendered":"IUSS Alert 145 (July 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">IUSS News<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">IUSS Bulletin 130 now online<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The most recent\u00a0IUSS\u00a0Bulletin is now online, featuring a variety of articles from an activity report of the\u00a0IUSS\u00a0Secretariat, the Minutes of the\u00a0IUSS\u00a0Council meetings which took place during the\u00a0IUSS\u00a0Inter-Congress Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, activities and recent achievements during the International Decade of Soils (2015-2024), conference and meeting reports and obituaries of outstanding soil scientists.<br \/>\nShould you wish to submit contributions for the next Bulletin, which will be published in December 2017, or place paid advertisements, please contact the\u00a0IUSS\u00a0Secretariat until 15 November at\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"mailto:iuss@umweltbundesamt.at\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>iuss@umweltbundesamt.at<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">New fact sheets on the IUSS website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The newest\u00a0IUSS\u00a0fact sheets on Soil and food security, Soil governance and Perception of soil by society were uploaded to the Newsroom of the\u00a0IUSS\u00a0website.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iuss.org\/index.php?article_id=647\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Final Call for Nominations: Dokuchaev Award, Von Liebig Award, and the IUSS Jeju Award<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Three awards are presented by the\u00a0IUSS\u00a0at each World Congress of Soil Science to recognize outstanding contributions in three areas:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">IUSS\u00a0Dokuchaev Award for basic research in soil science<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">IUSS\u00a0Liebig Award for applied research in soil science<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The\u00a0IUSS\u00a0Jeju Award for a young or mid-career soil scientist.<br \/>\nEligible nominees and nominators are members of the\u00a0IUSS. Each award consists of an engraved medal or equivalent, a certificate, a US$ 1000 honorarium, and financial support to attend the presentation at the World Congress of Soil Science (WCSS).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Nomination procedures are on the\u00a0IUSS\u00a0Website:<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iuss.org\/index.php?article_id=170\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Dokuchaev Award \u2013 information, criteria &amp; guidelines<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n&gt;&gt;\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iuss.org\/index.php?article_id=171\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Von Liebig Award \u2013 information, criteria &amp; guidelines<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n&gt;&gt;\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iuss.org\/index.php?article_id=637\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>The\u00a0<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iuss.org\/index.php?article_id=637\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">IUSS<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iuss.org\/index.php?article_id=637\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>\u00a0Jeju Award \u2013 information, criteria &amp; guidelines<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Submissions are due 12 August 2017. Nominators who have submitted previous nominations are encouraged to submit the nomination again.<br \/>\nFor further information, please contact M.B. Kirkham (<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"mailto:mbk@ksu.edu\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Email<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iuss.org\/index.php?article_id=632\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more about\u00a0<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iuss.org\/index.php?article_id=632\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">IUSS<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iuss.org\/index.php?article_id=632\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>\u00a0awards<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Award of Best Paper in Pedometrics 2016<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Thirty votes were received. Seven of the eight nominated papers received at least one first-place vote, and the voters had quite a range of rankings. For the first time we have a split victory; in\u00a0DOI\u00a0order:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Viscarra Rossel, R.A., T. Behrens et al. (2016).<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0A global spectral library to characterize the world\u2019s soil. Earth-Science Reviews 155, 198\u2013230.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.earscirev.2016.01.012\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Poggio, L., Gimona, A., Spezia, L., &amp; Brewer, M. J. (2016).<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0Bayesian spatial modelling of soil properties and their uncertainty: The example of soil organic matter in Scotland using R-INLA. Geoderma, 277, 69\u201382.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.geoderma.2016.04.026\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If you have not read these or the other nominated papers, it\u2019s never too late! We will repeat the process next year \u201cBest Paper 2017\u201d to be awarded at World Soil Congress 2018.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>By David Rossiter, Chairman, Awards Commission\u00a0IUSS\u00a0Pedometrics Commission 1.5<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Ivan Rodrigo Orjuela Osorio (\u20202017)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Secretariat was sad to learn that Ivan Rodrigo Orjuela Osorio passed away on the evening of Friday 30th June, shortly after a tragic traffic accident in Wageningen. Ivan was a PhD student from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and worked on soil carbon prediction by spectroscopy.<br \/>\nHe was an enthusiastic participant in Pedometrics 2017 and received excited feedback for his conference presentation. He was making plans with all the new scientific contacts he made at the conference.<br \/>\nWe are shocked with the news and extend our condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.<br \/>\nPlease see the Pedometrics 2017 website (<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pedometrics2017.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>http:\/\/www.pedometrics2017.org\/<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">) for a condolence register.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Newsletter of IUSS Division 4 \u2018Soil Connects\u2019 published<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Issue 6 of the biannual\u00a0SOIL\u00a0Connects Newsletter of\u00a0IUSS\u00a0Division 4 has just been released. It includes a number of interesting articles, starting with a report from the Division Chair, followed by a number of articles on soil and art, concluding with new publications and forthcoming meetings.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iuss.org\/index.php?article_id=423\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Meeting on the progress of the preparation of the WCSS 2018 at the IUSS headquarters in Vienna<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">On the 23rd of June, 2017 the former President of the Brazilian Soil Science Society, Gonzalo Farias, and Prof. Floria Bertsch, President of the Soil Science Society of Costa Rica, visited\u00a0IUSS\u00a0Secretary Sigbert Huber at his office in Vienna.<br \/>\nThey were accompanied by Prof.Winfried Blum, honorary member of\u00a0IUSS\u00a0and Secretary General of\u00a0IUSS\u00a01990-2002. The main purpose was to discuss the preparation of the\u00a0WCSS\u00a02018. The congress programme will be finalized and uploaded to the congress website very soon.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iuss.org\/index.php?article_id=26\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">General News<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Glinka World Soil Prize 2017<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Glinka World Soil Prize honours individuals and organizations whose leadership and activities have contributed or are still contributing to the promotion of sustainable soil management and the protection of soil resources. The Glinka Prize is an annual award for dynamic change-makers dedicated to addressing soil degradation. The first Glinka World Soil Prize was awarded on World Soil Day 2016. The nomination process for the Glinka World Soil Prize 2017 has been launched, and organizations and individuals are invited to nominate appropriate candidates and to submit nomination forms by 30 September 2017 to\u00a0GSP-Secretariat (<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"mailto:GSP-Secretariat@fao.org\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Email<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/global-soil-partnership\/pillars-action\/2-awareness-raising\/glinka-world-soil-prize\/en\/\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>From: Global Soil Partnership | Newsletter #12<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Global assessment of pressures on soil biodiversity<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The\u00a0JRC\u2019s Soil Team is working on the first global assessment of the impacts on soil biodiversity of both anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic pressures. To reach this goal,\u00a0JRC\u00a0carries out a survey to incorporate expert judgements. The result of this survey will allow to rank the main pressures on soil life and to map their distribution at the global scale. Responses to the survey are essential for determining how to weigh each pressure in the cumulative impact maps that will be produced. Therefore, your participation in this process is highly appreciated.<br \/>\nContact person: Alberto Orgiazzi (<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"mailto:alberto.orgiazzi@ec.europa.eu\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Email<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/F2MZb4hNUNGx4mCt1\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>From European Soil Data Centre Newsletter No. 102, June 2017<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Vacancy: Assistant professor soil physics at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The faculty of the Department of Soil Science seeks a soil physicist for a tenure-track position. Materials should be submitted by September 1, 2017.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/jobs.hr.wisc.edu\/cw\/en-us\/job\/495501\/assistant-professor\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">ISRIC entrusted as Global Soil Facility for the GSP<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">ISRIC\u00a0\u2013 World Soil Information has been entrusted with the role of Global Soil Information Facility (GSF) by the Plenary Assembly of the Global Soil Partnership (GSP) on June 20, 2017.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isric.org\/news\/isric-world-soil-information-elected-host-soil-data-facility-global-soil-partnership\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">New post on Make Wealth History: Restoring soil in Bangladesh<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Soil loss is the environmental crisis that gets the least attention from the media or from environmental campaigns. That\u2019s why I did a whole week on it last year, and wrote up a report as an introduction to the topic. Last week Practical Action released a short documentary on soil in Bangladesh. It makes a neat case study in how soil fertility is lost, and the risks that it poses to farmers. There are a number of culprits here \u2013 poor land management, generous subsidies on fertiliser that encourage overuse, and competing uses for organic matter. The solutions are holistic and creative \u2013 the country lacks a market for compost, and creating one could help solve problems with domestic waste and pollution at the same time.<br \/>\nI suspect you didn\u2019t plan on spending any time today thinking about soil in Bangladesh, but this is a great example of circular economy thinking in a developing world context. It shows the role that markets can play in solving environmental problems, and how government can enable and assist rather than direct. You\u2019ll also find appropriate technology, the case for a flexible \u2018mostly organic\u2019 approach to agriculture, and a documentary that lets Bangladeshis tell their own story.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>by Jeremy Williams<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/makewealthhistory.org\/2017\/06\/27\/restoring-soil-in-bangladesh\/\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Study finds mercury levels in Arctic soils 5 times higher than temperate regions<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Plants and soil in the Arctic tundra absorb and store mercury released into the atmosphere by industry and mining in the Earth\u2019s temperate regions, leading to soil mercury levels five times higher than in lower latitudes, according to a new study published this week in the journal Nature. The international team of researchers from the U.S. and France used a combination of methods to monitor the accumulation of mercury from the atmosphere, performing continuous sampling over a two-year period, including through the Arctic winter. They concluded that the Arctic tundra is a major \u201csink\u201d for mercury, a toxin that affects the neurological and immune systems of Arctic wildlife and is passed along to indigenous peoples who rely on subsistence hunting for their food.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=242476&amp;WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&amp;WT.mc_ev=click\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Carbon catch-22: the pollution in our soil<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Bad behaviour doesn\u2019t usually have good consequences but our fossil fuel and fertiliser habits may have had some \u201cgood\u201d environmental side-effects. New research suggests that the last 200 years of pollution have increased the carbon stored in soils across natural ecosystems in Britain. And this locking in of carbon in soils provides an offset for some of our carbon emissions. But the catch-22 is if we kick our polluting habits, this carbon is at risk of returning to our atmosphere, contributing to climate change.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/carbon-catch-22-the-pollution-in-our-soil-78718\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Soil evolution par for the golf course<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In 2008, Glen Obear was interning at a golf course in Hawaii when the superintendent asked him to help diagnose a mysterious problem. Some of the course\u2019s putting greens were developing bald patches, spots where the turfgrasses were dying and thinning out. The failures were troubling because the expensive, exquisitely crafted greens were just five years old. A new green is normally expected to last at least five times as long. Along the way of the investigation, the team discovered something else: The layers weren\u2019t so strange after all, but merely evidence of what all soils do\u2014age and evolve. \u201cThe big difference is that in [turf] soils, it happens quickly because you irrigate them, and you apply lots of iron and fertilizer,\u201d says UW-Madison pedologist Alfred Hartemink, who chairs the UW-Madison Department of Soil Science. \u201cBut there is something happening that we can explain. It\u2019s soil formation.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.sciencesocieties.org\/story\/2017\/jun\/wed\/soil-evolution-par-for-the-golf-course\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Monitoring soil structure changes after compaction<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Soil compaction is a global threat to soil ecosystem services, causing tremendous costs to society. The costs of soil compaction are borne by the cumulative loss of soil functionality (e.g. yield loss) following a compaction event until the soil has functionally recovered. Although soil compaction is relatively widely studied, there is a lack of reliable observations and metrics for soil structure recovery rates after compaction.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/06\/170619092213.htm\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Global Rainfall Erosivity<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">JRC\u00a0has collected data on rainfall erosivity from 3,625 meteorological stations in 63 coun\u00actries to establish the first ever Global Rainfall Erosivity Database (GloREDa). Quantifying rainfall erosivity is challenging as it requires high temporal resolution(1-60\u2009minutes) and high fidelity rainfall recordings. In collaboration with 31 scientists and 100+ organiza\u00actions,\u00a0JRC\u00a0has developed the global erosivity map which was published in Nature Group\u2019s Scientific Reports. The highest rainfall erosivity is found in South America (especially around the Amazon Basin) and the Caribbean countries, Central Africa and parts of West\u00acern Africa and South East Asia. The lowest values are in mid- and high-latitude regions such as Canada, the Russian Federation, northern Europe, northern Africa, the Middle East and southern Australia. The R-factor map at 30 arc-sec resolution is available for free download in the\u00a0ESDAC:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu\/content\/global-rainfall-erosivity\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>From European Soil Data Centre Newsletter No. 102, June 2017<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Launch of the International Network on Black Soils<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The International Network of Black Soils (INBS) was established under the aegis of the\u00a0GSP\u00a0as a platform for knowledge-sharing by countries with black soils with the aim of stimulating discussion on common issues related to the conservation and sustainable management of these soils and fostering technical exchange and cooperation.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0INBS\u00a0was launched at the Global Symposium on Soil Organic Carbon in March 2017, with representatives from national soil institutions and the governments of Argentina, Brazil, China, the Russian Federation, and the United States of America. The Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils will provide scientific advice to the\u00a0INBS, and the\u00a0GSP\u00a0Secretariat will facilitate the implementation of agreed activities as it receives contributions from resource partners.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0INBS\u00a0concept note and terms of reference were submitted to the fifth\u00a0GSP\u00a0Plenary Assembly, where the\u00a0INBS\u00a0was officially endorsed. Mr Guiqing Han from China\u2019s Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences was appointed as the\u00a0INBS\u00a0chair, and China proposed that it organizes the first meeting of the network.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/global-soil-partnership\/pillars-action\/1-soil-management\/en\/\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>From: Global Soil Partnership | Newsletter #12<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Conferences, Meetings and Workshops<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Webinar about urban soil mapping<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">10 August 2017, 1:00\u20132:30 p.m. (CT). This webinar is a panel presentation on recent\u00a0NCSS\u00a0mapping efforts in big cities. You\u2019ll hear how some employees have overcome the challenges of mapping in urban areas as well as the career opportunities they have had as a result of these mapping efforts.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iuss.org\/media\/aug2017_urban_mapping.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">6th International Symposium on Soil Organic Matter<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Rothamsted Research, Harpenden (United Kingdom), September 3\u20137, 2017, Title: Healthy soils for sustainable agriculture: the role of\u00a0SOM. Rothamsted is the oldest agricultural research station in the world. Therefore, as well as the major themes that apply to all areas of\u00a0SOM\u00a0science, the theme of this Symposium particularly focusses on the management of agricultural soils to deliver environmentally and economically sustainable supplies of sufficient, nutritious food for all, in the context of global population increase, climate change and unequal resource distribution.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.som2017.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">WMESS\u00a02017 \u2013 World Multidisciplinary Earth Sciences Symposium<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Prague, Czech Republic, September 11-15, 2017. The main mission of the \u201cWorld Multidisciplinary Earth Sciences Symposium \u2013\u00a0WMESS\u201d is to lead to contribute in multidisciplinary studies related with atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and pedosphere of the Earth and interaction of the human with them. As another mission it will provide a forum for this diverse range of studies which report very latest results and document emerging understanding of the Earth\u2019s system and our place in it.\u00a0WMESS\u00a0aims to provide a forum for discussion of the latest findings and technologies in different fields of Earth Sciences; to give opportunities for future collaborations; to be a platform for sharing knowledge and experiences in the fields of Earth Sciences; and to lead for providing a forum for early career researchers for presentation of their work and discussion of their ideas with experts in different fields of Earth Sciences.<br \/>\nDeadline for abstract submission: July 15, 2017<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mess-earth.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">ICERAP\u00a02017 \u2013 International Conference on Ecosystem Resilience and Agricultural Productivity<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Kampala, Uganda, November 22-24, 2017. A significant proportion of livelihoods in tropical regions particularly in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) are heavily ecosystem dependent. Equally, the development strategies of the regional economies are premised on harnessing ecosystem and environmental resources to sustain the economic growth and increasing food, fibre and energy demands for the populations. Whilst the national economies show rapid growth, there is increasing concern on declining ecosystem health, and agricultural productivity given the rapidly increasing population. This conference aims to cultivate the emerging knowledge crucial for solving the complex and interconnected issues of ecosystem resilience, increasing agricultural productivity and sustaining livelihoods under climate change.<br \/>\nDeadline for abstract submission: 31 July 2017<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capsnac.mak.ac.ug\/conference2017\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">ICSSPN\u00a02018 \u2013 20th International Conference on Soil Science and Plant Nutrition<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Paris, France, January 25 \u2013 26, 2018. The\u00a0ICSSPN\u00a02018 aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition.<br \/>\nImportant Dates:<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Abstracts\/Full-Text Paper Submission Deadline July 14, 2017<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Notification of Acceptance\/Rejection July 30, 2017<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Final Paper (Camera Ready) Submission &amp; Early Bird Registration Deadline Dec. 12 2017<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waset.org\/conference\/2018\/01\/paris\/ICSSPN\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">AWSPT\u201918 \u2013 3rd International Conference on Air, Water, and Soil Pollution and Treatment<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Budapest, Hungary, April 8 \u2013 10, 2018<br \/>\nThe\u00a0AWSPT\u201918 aims to become the leading annual conference in fields related to air, water, and soil pollution and treatment. The goal of\u00a0AWSPT\u201918 is to gather scholars from all over the world to present advances in the relevant fields and to foster an environment conducive to exchanging ideas and information. This conference will also provide an ideal environment to develop new collaborations and meet experts on the fundamentals, applications, and products of the mentioned fields.\u00a0AWSPT\u201918 is part of the 3rd World Congress on Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering (CSEE\u201918).<br \/>\nPaper Submission Deadline: October 20, 2017<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/awspt.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">New publications<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">By David R. Montgomery, 1st Edition published in May 2017 by W. W. Norton &amp; Company, 320 pages,\u00a0ISBN: 9780393608328, price hardback $26.95.<br \/>\nThe problem of agriculture is as old as civilization. Throughout history, great societies that abused their land withered into poverty or disappeared entirely. Now we risk repeating this ancient story on a global scale due to ongoing soil degradation, a changing climate, and a rising population. But there is reason for hope. David R. Montgomery introduces us to farmers around the world at the heart of a brewing soil health revolution that could bring humanity\u2019s ailing soil back to life remarkably fast. Growing a Revolution draws on visits to farms in the industrialized world and developing world to show that a new combination of farming practices can deliver innovative, cost-effective solutions to problems farmers face today.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elliottbaybook.com\/book\/9780393608328\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Soils, Ecosystem Processes, and Agricultural Development<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Edited by Shinya Funakawa, 1st ed. published by Springer in 2017, 392 pages, 126 illustrations, 55 illustrations in colour. Price hardcover: 149.99 \u20ac | \u00a3112.00 | $179.00.<br \/>\nThe main objective of this book is to integrate environmental knowledge observed in local agriculture, based on the understanding of soils science and ecology, and to propose possible technical solutions and a more integrated approach to tropical agriculture. The chapters describe and analyse the ecological and technical countermeasures available for mitigating environmental degradation due to the increasing agricultural activities by humans, based on our scientific understanding of traditional agriculture in the tropics.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/gp\/book\/9784431564829\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Managing Mississippi and Ohio River Landscapes<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">By Kenneth R. Olson and Lois Wright Morton. Published July 2017 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society, 240 full-colour pages,\u00a0ISBN\u00a0978-0-9856923-1-5, price hardcover $49.00.<br \/>\nTwo powerful rivers, the Ohio and Mississippi, and their tributaries drain more than 41% of the interior continental United States. Managing Mississippi and Ohio River Landscapes examines the complex and ever-changing Mississippi and Ohio Rivers\u2019 landscapes and their systems. Through a series of engaging case studies accompanied by illustrative maps and photographs, the book reviews the historical impacts of climate, economic and population growth, and efforts to manage the waterways with engineered structures. Topics include drainage of bottomlands for crop production and other land uses, flooding risks and responses, levee systems and breaches, river navigation, and river ecology. The book concludes with recommendations for future management of these major US waterways.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/news.aces.illinois.edu\/news\/new-book-explains-importance-great-river-management\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Pedometrics 25th Anniversary Virtual Issue<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Free Open access articles until end of 2017, a selection of 75 best papers in Pedometrics.<br \/>\nThe discipline of pedometrics is celebrating 25 years since it first conference in Wageningen, the Netherlands, in September 1992. This virtual special issue is part of that celebration. Pedometrics can be defined as the development and application of statistical and mathematical methods to data analysis problems in soil science. More broadly, Pedometrics applies mathematical, statistical and numerical methods to resolve the uncertainty and complexity inherent in the soil system. This virtual special issue brings together important contributions to pedometrics from the Elsevier suite of journals.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.elsevier.com\/geoderma\/virtual-special-issues\/pedometrics-25th-anniversary-virtual-issue\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Monitoring soil structure evolution after compaction<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Soil compaction is a global threat to soil ecosystem services, causing tremendous costs to society. The costs of soil compaction are borne by the cumulative loss of soil functionality (e.g. yield loss) following a compaction event until the soil has functionally recovered. Although soil compaction is relatively widely studied, there is a lack of reliable observations and metrics for soil structure recovery rates after compaction. In the April issue of Vadose Zone Journal, researchers describe the objectives, the design, the implementation, and monitoring concept of a long-term field experiment for monitoring post-compaction evolution of soil structure, referred to as a soil structure observatory.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.sciencesocieties.org\/story\/2017\/may\/fri\/monitoring-soil-structure-evolution-after-compaction\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Soil Carbon and Nitrogen under a long-term fertilizer Gradient<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The connection between commercial N fertilizer and soil organic carbon is widely debated. In a recent article in the Soil Science Society of America Journal, researchers examined how long-term nitrogen use affected soil C and N in continuous corn production. The low rate of N application caused significant decreases in soil C and N content down to 100 cm, while no differences were determined between the recommended and high rates of N. In addition, plots receiving the low application of N were lower in elevation and had less depth of the A horizon.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.sciencesocieties.org\/story\/2017\/jun\/tue\/soil-carbon-and-nitrogen-under-a-long-term-fertilizer-gradient\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Unlocking the Potential of Soil Organic Carbon<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">By\u00a0FAO, Rome, 2017, 36 pages,\u00a0ISBN\u00a0978-92-5-109759-5. The Global Symposium on Soil Organic Carbon (GSOC17) outcome document \u201cUnlocking the Potential of Soil Organic Carbon\u201d, was drafted and reviewed by the GSOC17 Scientific Committee. It highlights the role of soils and\u00a0SOC\u00a0management in achieving goals on climate change and sustainable development, and it makes recommendations on the key next steps for including\u00a0SOC\u00a0in the regular reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, starting with SR2, the refinement of guidelines on greenhouse gas inventories and the Sixth Assessment Report, as well as reporting to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification and on the Sustainable Development Goals.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/3\/b-i7268e.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Soil Organic Carbon Mapping Cookbook<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Edited by Yusuf Yigini, Rainer Baritz, Ronald R. Vargas.\u00a0FAO, Rome, 1st edition April 2017, 180 pages. Developing the Global Soil Organic Carbon Map will require intensive collaboration among soil information institutions globally. The Soil Organic Carbon Mapping Cookbook provides generic methodologies and the technical steps for producing national soil organic carbon (SOC) maps. It includes step-by-step guidance for developing 1 km grids for\u00a0SOC\u00a0stocks, the preparation of local soil data, the compilation and pre-processing of ancillary spatial datasets, upscaling methodologies, and uncertainty assessments. Guidance is mainly specific to soil carbon data, but it also includes generic sections on soil grid development due to its relevance to other soil properties. The cookbook provides technical guidelines for preparing and evaluating spatial soil datasets; determining\u00a0SOC\u00a0stocks from local samples to a target depth of 30 cm; preparing spatial covariates for upscaling; and selecting and applying the most suitable upscaling methodology.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/3\/a-bs901e.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Soils\u2019 potential to contribute to offset international aviation emissions<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">By\u00a0FAO, 2017, 8 pages. This informative note presents soil carbon sequestration as an option for offsetting carbon dioxide emissions from international aviation as part of a market-based mechanism. Potentially, projects arising from such an approach could foster soil carbon sequestration to support the achievement of all\u00a0FAO\u2019s strategic objectives (SOs), in particular eradicating hunger (SO1), making agriculture more productive and sustainable (SO2), and increasing resilience (SO3). Offsetting greenhouse gas emissions from international aviation through\u00a0SOC\u00a0sequestration can contribute to sustainable development by promoting economic development, mitigating and helping adapt to climate change, and food security.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/documents\/card\/en\/c\/e4839d17-c6aa-44ca-85cc-b4a6de25c143\/\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Read more<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Advertisements<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">financially supported<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">New Soil Improver<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"651\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iuss.org\/alert\/iuss-alerts-2017-2020\/iuss-alert-144-june-2017\/attachment\/cool-terra\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iuss.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Cool-Terra.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"296,75\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Cool Terra\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iuss.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Cool-Terra.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-651\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iuss.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Cool-Terra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"75\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Improving Soil Health with a Guaranteed Increase in Profitability<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>______________________________________________<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Cool Terra\u00ae Engineered Biocarbon \u2013 backed by science<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolterra.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>http:\/\/www.coolterra.com<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Using Cool Planet\u2019s proprietary process, agricultural residues are turned into biochar and upgraded into Cool Terra \u2013 a consistent, predictable and effective Engineered Biocarbon\u2122 product. The highly porous physical structure is formulated to create a healthy, diverse, soil microbiome. The result, enhanced plant growth and increased grower profitability.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Optimize water retention | Build lasting soil structure | Boost microbial growth | Improve the Environment<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Cool Terra has shown a greater than 15% yield increase vs. the grower standard in our meta-data analysis across a variety of geographies, soils, and crop types. At the same time, Cool Terra permanently sequesters more than 2.5 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere for every ton applied.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">More than 120 large scale, independent and University-led commercial trials have provided the scientific results necessary for the broad commercialization of Cool Terra. If you are interested in working with Cool Planet to further the science, or would like to learn more, contact us at:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"mailto:CoolTerra@coolplanet.com\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>CoolTerra@coolplanet.com<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0or online at\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolterra.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>www.coolterra.com<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Vacancy for Assistant Professor of Soil Resources<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"654\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iuss.org\/alert\/iuss-alerts-2017-2020\/iuss-alert-145\/attachment\/eth-zurich\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iuss.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ETH-Zurich.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"188,31\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ETH\u00a0Zurich\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iuss.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ETH-Zurich.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-654\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iuss.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ETH-Zurich.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"31\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Assistant Professor (TT) of Soil Resources<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Department of Environmental Systems Science (www.usys.ethz.ch) of\u00a0ETH\u00a0Zurich invites applications for an assistant professor (tenure track) focusing on (1) the role of soil as a key natural resource, supporting a wide range of forest and other terrestrial ecosystem functions and services and\/or (2) quantifying the effects of changes of land use and climate on various soil functions at local to global scales. Candidates should be interested in system-oriented multidisciplinary research and are expected to develop an innovative and internationally recognized research program, making an important contribution to linking soil ecosystem services to land-use and climate change.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The successful candidate will have a strong background in soil sciences and demonstrated potential for innovative research. At the assistant professor level commitment to teaching and the ability to lead a research group are expected. Teaching duties will include advanced-level courses on the assessment, modelling or management of soil resources as part of the environment.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Assistant professorships have been established to promote the careers of younger scien\u00actists.\u00a0ETH\u00a0Zurich implements a tenure track system equivalent to other top international universities.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Please apply online at:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facultyaffairs.ethz.ch\/\"><span style=\"color: #976036;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>www.facultyaffairs.ethz.ch<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Applications should include a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, a statement of future research and teaching interests, and a description of the three most important achievements.<br \/>\nThe letter of application should be addressed\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>to the President of\u00a0ETH\u00a0Zurich, Prof. Dr. Lino Guzzella.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>The closing date for applications is 31 August 2017.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #384452;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\nETH\u00a0Zurich is an equal opportunity and family friendly employer and is responsive to the needs of dual career couples. 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