[AACS] IUSS Alert 146 (August 2017)
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IUSS Alert 146 (August 2017)
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IUSS News
Website for IUSS World Congress 2018 now online
The website for the 21st World Congress of Soil Science has gone online.
The congress, which is arguably the most acclaimed meeting in the area
of soil science, will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 12-17,
2018. Registration and call for abstracts is open.
Read more <https://www.21wcss.org/index.php>
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Anthropcentrism and Soil Health
The newest Viewpoint on “The Anthropcentrism and Soil Health” by Rattan
Lal, President of the International Union of Soil Sciences is now
available on the IUSS website.
Read more <http://www.iuss.org/index.php?article_id=636>
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Pedometron 40
The current issue of the newsletter of the IUSS Commission 1.5
Pedometrics is dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Pedometrics. It
contains articles about the history of Pedometrics, portraits about
related IUSS Working Groups and Prof. Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov as
well as interviews with soil experts.
Read more <http://iuss.org/index.php?article_id=421>
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IUSS Stimulus Fund – last call for submissions in 2017
IUSS has established an annual Stimulus Fund to support suitable
activities within its Commissions and Working Groups. Where appropriate,
the Fund will also support other activities to assist the development of
soil science generally but particularly in regions of the world where
lack of resources limit opportunities. The current submission period
will end September 15, 2017.
Read more <http://www.iuss.org/index.php?article_id=594>
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National voting of Officers for IUSS Divisions and Commissions 2017
about to start
Every four years the officers for the IUSS Divisions and Commissions are
newly elected. Voting by IUSS Members shall be conducted electronically
on a one vote per individual in each National Member Society basis.
Elections will be decided by a simple majority of votes cast.
In line with the IUSS Bye-laws (version Oct. 2014) the national Soil
Science Societies shall organize the national voting of officers for
Divisions and Commissions. The voting system for society members shall
be open from 1 September to 31 December 2017. The list of nominated
persons (ballot), the corresponding biographies and the guideline for
the voting procedure in 2017 are provided on the IUSS website.
The Presidents of the National Member Society are kindly requested to
send the results of elections to iuss en umweltbundesamt.at
<mailto:iuss en umweltbundesamt.at> (Cc to R.Horn
<mailto:rhorn en soils.uni-kiel.de>) before 28 January 2018.
Read more <http://iuss.boku.ac.at/index.php?article_id=649>
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Investiture as "Doctor Honoris Causa" at the University of Lleida
(Spain) of Prof. Dr. Rattan Lal, President of IUSS (13 June 2017)
One of the most relevant programmed activities of the 1st World
Conference on Soil and Water Conservation under Global Change (CONSOWA
Lleida 2017), was the ceremony of investiture of Prof Dr Rattan Lal,
President of IUSS, as “Doctor Honoris Causa” at the University of Lleida
(UdL) (Spain), upon proposals of the Departments of Soils and
Environmental Sciences and of Crop and Forest Science of the
Agricultural and Forestry Schools of UdL and the support of the Sections
of Control de la Degradación y Recuperación de Suelos and of
Conservación de Suelos y Aguas of the Soil Science Spanish Society
(SECS). For this investiture, there was taken into account Dr. Lal’s
long time and pioneer research, reflected in numer ous publications,
directed to solve problems of soil and water management of agricultural
soils, and their relations both with C sequestration in soils, control
and mitigation of climate changes and finally with food production and
food security.
The presentation of merits (laudatio) of Prof. Dr. Rattan Lal was in the
hands of Prof. Dr. Ildefonso Pla Sentís. For the ceremony old traditions
of the UdL were followed, which was founded in the year 1300.
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General News
Future Policy Award crowns the World’s Best Land Restoration Policies
Ethiopia wins Gold Award; other winning policies from China, Brazil and
Jordan. More people, less erosion – Ethiopia’s Tigray region
demonstrates that this can be a reality: They will take home the Gold
Future Policy Award 2017, beating 26 other nominated policies to the
prize. Also known as “Oscar for Best Policies”, the Future Policy Award
highlights the world’s best policies that combat desertification and
land degradation this year. With unique collective action, voluntary
labour and the involvement of the youth, people of Tigray are restoring
land on a massive scale. As a result, erosion has decreased
significantly, groundwater levels are recharged, and the uptake of
sustainable agricultural practices made a significant contribution to
food self-sufficiency and economic growth.
Read more <https://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/p/2017-desertification/>
Also worth mentioning is that the Vision Award from the World Future
Council went to the international “4 per 1000” Initiative which
communicates a new concept for mitigating climate change through the
increase of soil organic carbon.
Read more <https://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/press-release-fpa-2017/>
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Agri-environment schemes: impacts on the agricultural environment
Environmental protection and human food security co-exist in a critical
balance, one that is often difficult to get right. The pressures of
population rise, farming intensification, and loss of habitats and
species mean that protections afforded under the EU’s Common
Agricultural Policy are pivotal to the conservation of agri-ecology. In
the EU, agri-environment schemes encourage farmers to undertake
environmentally friendly practices and are thus vital to the objective
of sustainable agriculture. This Thematic Issue looks at some of the
impacts that AES have had on European farm ecosystems, biodiversity and
farmers.
Read more
<http://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/pdf/AES_impacts_on_agricultural_environment_57si_en.pdf>
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National Soil Health Measurements to accelerate agricultural
transformation
For scientists, farmers and ag policy makers, one nagging question has
yet to be completely “unearthed:” Just how healthy (or unhealthy) are
the nation’s soils? The concept of soil health is gaining widespread
attention because it promotes agricultural practices that are not only
good for the farmer, but also good for the environment. An abundance of
research shows that improving soil health boosts crop yield, enhances
water quality, increases drought resilience, reduces greenhouse gas
emissions, increases carbon sequestration, provides pollinator habitat,
and builds disease suppression. To help implement widely-applicable,
consistent measures of soil health, the Soil Health Institute announces
its endorsement of 19 national soil health measurements.
Read more
<http://soilhealthinstitute.org/national-soil-health-measurements-accelerate-agricultural-transformation/>
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Measured soil moisture improves wildfire prediction
Despite the known connection between soil moisture and wildfire danger,
measured soil moisture is conspicuously absent from the list of
variables commonly used in wildfire danger assessments. Instead,
assessments enlist the help of the decades-old Keetch-Byram Drought
index (KBDI), a soil moisture surrogate calculated from precipitation
and estimated evapotranspiration. In the absence of measured soil
moisture data, the reliance upon KBDI as a surrogate to assess wildfire
danger is understandable. But is the continued reliance on KBDI
justified when high quality soil moisture data are available? According
to recent work published in Soil Science Society of America Journal, the
answer is no.
Read more
<https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/story/2017/jul/mon/measured-soil-moisture-improves-wildfire-prediction>
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Friends of Phragmites
Friends of Phragmites is an organisation established by Prof D. Fanning
to promote the use of swamp plants to remediate soils degraded by acid
sulphate effects. The Australian Chapter, with new president Simon
Smith, held its second plantout to remediate a degraded site near
Balmoral, Victoria, Australia.
Read more
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Z3pi0ZMJ9iRTZ0REpCdEI5ZkU/view?usp=sharing>
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Conferences, Meetings and Workshops
Archaeological Soil Micromorphology Training and Workshop 2017
University College London, Institute of Archaeology; Training: 6-9
November, followed by Practice Days and Workshop: 10-11 November 2017.
Contact <mailto:r.macphail en ucl.ac.uk>
The 13th International Conference of the East and Southeast Asia
Federation of Soil Science Societies (ESAFS)
“Soil Quality for Food Security and Healthy Life”
Pattaya, Chonburi, Thailand, December 12-15, 2017. Good soil quality is
required for food security and healthy life of world population. ESAFS
2017 Conference aims to provide advanced scientific information on the
researches in soil quality and capacity for crop production. The
conference will provide a better understanding of the attributes of soil
quality and the way of improving soil and associated environmental
quality for sustainable food security and healthy life of East,
Southeast Asia as well as world population. Abstract submission
deadline: 13 October 2017
Read more <http://www.esafs2017.com> (website will be available soon)
Conference Flyer <http://www.iuss.org/files/leaflet_of_esafs_2017_02.pdf>
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New publications
Phosphate in Soils: Interaction with Micronutrients, Radionuclides
and Heavy Metals
Edited by H. Magdi Selim. Published August 1, 2017 by CRC Press in the
Series: Advances in Trace Elements in the Environment; 381 pages, ISBN
9781138803183, Price paperback £50.00, hardback £102.00. Recent studies
reveal that Phosphorus (P) in the form of phosphate, a macronutrient
essential for plant growth, and crop yields can influence the
bioavailability, retention, and mobility of trace elements,
metal(loid)s, and radio nuclides in soils. When this occurs, phosphates
can affect the dynamics of heavy metals and influence soil
characteristics, impacting soil mobility and toxicity.
Phosphate in Soils: Interaction with Micronutrients, Radionuclides and
Heavy Metals utilizes the latest research to emphasize the role that
phosphate plays in enhancing or reducing the mobility of heavy metals in
soil, and the soil-water-plant environment. It provides an in-depth
understanding of each heavy metal species, and expands on phosphate
interactions in geological material.
Read more
<https://www.crcpress.com/Phosphate-in-Soils-Interaction-with-Micronutrients-Radionuclides-and-Heavy/Selim/p/book/9781138803183>
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Soil Nematodes of Grasslands in Northern China
By Qi Li, Wenju Liang, Xiaoke Zhang, Mohammad Mahamood; 1st Edition
published August 15, 2017 by Elsevier, imprint Academic Press, 254
pages, Paperback ISBN: 9780128132746, price paperback EUR 75.45.
Soil Nematodes of Grasslands in Northern China presents research on
China’s temperate grasslands, providing the findings and results of a
large field survey along a transect across the northern temperate
grassland. It examines nematode distribution patterns along the transect
from trophic group and family, to genus level, also evaluating their
relationship with climatic conditions, plant biomass and soil
parameters. The book then presents detailed taxonomy information of
nematodes to genus or species level, providing keen insights into
nematode diversity along the grassland transect in north China.
Read more
<https://www.elsevier.com/books/soil-nematodes-of-grasslands-in-northern-china/li/978-0-12-813274-6?start_rank=21&producttype=books&publicationyear=2017&sortby=sortByDateDesc&q=soil>
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Comparison of dung and soil fauna from pastures treated with and
without ivermectin as an example of the effects of a veterinary
pharmaceutical
By Dr. Jörg Römbke, Adam Scheffczyk, Jean-Pierre Lumaret, Thomas Tixier,
Dr. Wolf Blanckenhorn, Dr. Joost Lahr, Dr. Kevin Floate, June 2017,
Umweltbundesamt, Texte | 54/2017, 238 pages, download only, no costs.
Soil organisms in manure or organisms that colonize dung pats can be
impacted by the application of veterinary medical products, especially
parasiticides, to livestock. For this reason, the authorization process
for veterinary medicinal products in the European Union and other
countries includes a requirement for “higher-tier” tests when adverse
effects on dung organisms can be detected in single-species toxicity
tests. However, no guidance documents for the performance of higher-tier
tests are available, so far. Therefore, an international research
project was undertaken to develop and validate a proposed test method
under varying field conditions of climate, soil, and endemic
coprophilous fauna. The test took place at Lethbridge (Canada),
Montpellier (France), Zurich (Switzerland), and Wageningen (The
Netherlands). The aim of the project was to determine if fecal residues
of a parasitide with known insecticidal activity (ivermectin) showed
similar effects on insects breeding in dung of treated animals,
coprophilous organisms in the soil beneath the dung, and rates of dung
degradation.
Read more
<https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/publikationen/comparison-of-dung-soil-fauna-from-pastures-treated>
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Remote Sensing of Soils
By Shankar R., 1st edition published August 2017 by Springer, 500 pages,
166 illustrations, ISBN 978-3-662-53740-4, price hardcover 149,99 € |
£112.00 | $179.00, printed e-book € | $ 24.99.
This book is about applications of remote sensing techniques in the
studies on soils. In pursuance of the objective, the book initially
provides an introduction to various elements and concepts of remote
sensing, and associated technologies , namely Geographic Information
System (GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS) in chapter-1. An overview
of the sensors used to collect remote sensing data and important Earth
observation missions is provided in chapter-2. The processing of
satellite digital data (geometric and radiometric corrections, feature
reduction, digital data fusion, image enhancements and analysis) is
dealt with in Chapter-3. In the chapter to follow the interpretation of
remote sensing data , very important and crucial step in deriving
information on natural resources including soils resources, is
discussed. An introduction to soils as a natural body with respect to
their formation, physical and chemical properties used during inventory
of soils, and soil classification is given in Chapter-5.The spectral
response patterns of soils including hyperspectral characteristics
-fundamental to deriving information on soils from spectral
measurements, and the techniques of soil resources mapping are discussed
in chapter-6 and -7,respectively. Furthermore, the creation of digital
soil resources database and the development of soil information systems,
a very important aspect of storage and dissemination of digital soil
data to the end users are discussed in chapter-8. Lastly, the
applications of remote sensing techniques in soil moisture estimation
and soil fertility evaluation are covered in chapter-9 and -10,
respectively.
Read more <http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783662537381>
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Sustainable Management of Land Resources: An Indian Perspective
Edited by G.P. Obi Reddy, N.G. Patil, Arun Chaturvedi. Published August
29, 2017 by Apple Academic Press, 796 pages – 116 B/W illustrations,
ISBN 9781771885171, price hardback £114.00.
The depletion of land resources is one of the greatest challenges for
mankind in this millennium. Shrinking land resources, weather
aberrations, deterioration of land quality, and the globalization and
liberalization of market economies have become intertwined to influence
the sustainable management of land resources and land use plans. This
important volume addresses these challenges, looking at how scientists
translate their knowledge and experience in sustainable land resources
and management into implementable policy decisions, with a particular
focus on India.
Read more
<https://www.crcpress.com/Sustainable-Management-of-Land-Resources-An-Indian-Perspective/Reddy-Patil-Chaturvedi/p/book/9781771885171>
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Vacancy for Assistant Professor of Soil Resources
*Assistant Professor (TT) of Soil Resources*
The Department of Environmental Systems Science (www.usys.ethz.ch) of
ETH Zurich 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.
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.
Assistant professorships have been established to promote the careers of
younger scien¬tists. ETH Zurich implements a tenure track system
equivalent to other top international universities.
*Please apply online at:* www.facultyaffairs.ethz.ch
<http://www.facultyaffairs.ethz.ch>
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.
The letter of application should be addressed *to the President of ETH
Zurich, Prof. Dr. Lino Guzzella.*
*The closing date for applications is 31 August 2017.*
ETH Zurich is an equal opportunity and family friendly employer and is
responsive to the needs of dual career couples. We specifically
encourage women to apply.
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