SUITMA 7 - Toruń, Poland

The 2013 7th SUITMA conference was held in Toruń in Northern Poland from 16^th to 20^th September. It was co-organized by the Department of Soil Science and Landscape Management, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University and the Polish Soil Science Society. The Chairman of the SUITMA 7 Scientific Committee was Przemysław Charzyński. More than 100 participants from 24 countries from all inhabited continents attended the congress, and a total of 47 oral and 74 posters were presented in six sessions, apart from the plenary one:

· Classification of SUITMAs;

· SUITMAs as a resource of goods;

· Degradation of SUITMAs and human health;

· SUITMAs and climate change;

· Biodiversity in SUITMAs;

· SUITMAs and culture.

Congress abstracts can be downloaded by clicking on the cover below.

Abstracts of the conference presentations can be downloaded HERE and at the bottom of this page

Selected papers based on presented reports were published in special issues of Journal of Soils and Sediments (15(8), 2015) and Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (61 (S1), 2015).

Two days of conference were dedicated to field activities in Toruń and in the nearby areas of Kuyavian-Pomeranian Province. Ekranic Technosols of Toruń Airfield, constructed soils on Toruń Strongholds, ‘Paleotechnosols’ of Grodno - Lusatian fortified settlement from older part of Hallstatt period, soils of military training fields and Spolic Technosols in the area affected by soda industry (Inowrocław) were presented. The conference was completed with a 4-day post-conference tour in Poland and in Czechia (organised together with Research Institute for Soil and Water Conservation from Prague).

Two books were published especially for the conference, including Technogenic Soils of Poland (Charzyński et al. 2013a) and Technogenic Soils Atlas (Charzyński et al. 2013b). Books can be downloaded by clicking on their covers.

Photos was taken by: Kye-Hoon KIM, Maxine LEVIN, Łukasz UZAROWICZ, Marcin ŚWITONIAK, Tomasz KARASIEWICZ, Henryk RÓŻYCKI, Iana LEBED-SHARLEVICH, Andrzej GREINERT, Przemysław CHARZYŃSKI, Adrienn HORVATH, Radim Vacha, Lenka FINDORAKOVA, Piotr SEWERNIAK.

Conference web site is available here: http://www.suitma7.umk.pl/.