SUITMA 1 - Essen, Germany
Its first international conference had the WG SUITMA in Essen, Germany from July 12th to 18th 2000 in co-operation of DBG-Deutsche Bodenkundliche Gesellschaft/German Soil Science Society, AFES – Association Francaise pour l’Etude du Sol/French Soil Science Society (Burghardt, 2001) and the University Essen, Germany (Burghardt, 2001). The 1st SUITMA Conference was chaired by prof. Wolfgang Burghardt.
The Conference was attended by 161 scientists from 37 countries. The 1st SUITMA-Conference comprised in 3 days oral and poster presentations, Small Group Discussions on the objectives of the conference themes, a Research Partner Mediation Event, the presentation of five urban soils maps (Kiel, Eckernförde, Oberhausen, Herne, Stuttgart) and in addition, 5 one day excursions.
At the 1st SUITMA Conference the number of contributions was 214. Among them were 106 oral presentations. The contributions were published as proceedings in 4 Volumes edited by W. Burghardt, Chr. Dornauf, 2000).
The program of the first SUITMA had three major themes of the conference subdivided into 22 subtopics:
A – the Unknown Urban Soil – Detection, Resources and Face;
B – Application of Soil Information;
C – Soil Quality and Problems.
As a parto of the congress, five one day excursions were organized:
A – Modified soils (by stratification, mixing, compaction, contamination, humus accumulation, fine earth reduction by skeleton content, ground water lowering);
B – Soils from man-made substrates (ruble, waste, sludge, ash, slag, thermal cleaned soil);
C – Urban soil use (park, forest, vegetable garden, playground, storm water infiltration, biotopes);
D – Extreme contaminated soils, soils as sources of fine dust (PM10),
E – Soils from hard coal mining and soil reclamation.
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Detailed description of the event by W. Burghardt was presented in:
Bulletin of theInternational Union of Soil Sciences, No. 99 2001/1: 73-75. ISSN0374-0447.
excursion Gelsenkirchen Schongelberg, storm water infiltration sites (Fot. W. Burghardt)
excursion Essen Karnap, ash field (Fot. W. Burghardt)