Dear Colleagues,
1) Please read the text below carefully,
2) show your opinion by voting using link provided at the end of document
Deadline: by Nov. 15, 2022
The result of the voting will be decided by majority of the vote arrived in time.
Sincerely yours,
John Kim & Przemyslaw Charzyński
Working Group? Commission?
Background:
l During world congress of soil sciences held in Glasgow this year, John Kim was asked twice by the executive committee members (former div. 3 chair: Bal Ram Singh; president-elect: Edoardo Costantini why WG SUITMA still stayed as WG after 8 years from its initiation.
l IUSS Statute I. describes a WG to proceed to commission once it fulfills its role as a WG within 8 years (WG SUITMA is 24 years old considering its birth during WCSS held in Montpellier in 1998).
I. The Working Groups (in IUSS Statutes)
I1. Working Groups are part of one or more Division(s)/Commissions. Members with common
interests in topics not specifically addressed by Divisions or Commissions may propose the
establishment of a Working Group. If endorsed by the Division(s), the proposal shall be sent
to the Executive Committee, which will confirm or deny the proposal.
I2. Working Groups will elect a Chairperson and a Vice Chairperson as officers. The IUSS and
the Division(s) to which they belong will give reasonable support for their activities. The
Working Group will normally exist for a short period of time as long as it maintains an active
program of scientific work, but normally will not exist beyond 8 years.
l John Kim introduced this agenda during opening session of SUITMA11 this year. During closing session of SUITMA11, John Kim raised this agenda again for discussion. The participants of the SUITMA11 agreed to the following:
ü John Kim will prepare a short description about this matter within 1-2 weeks with the help of Gerd and Jean-Louis.
ü The ‘revised’ description will be distributed to the members of SUITMA by email. There will be a space for a vote on the preference (WG? or Commission?) of the members of SUITMA at the end of the description.
ü The members of SUITMA will return their preference (WG? or Commission?) using on-line form..
ü John Kim will inform the result of the vote to the members of SUTMA.
ü John Kim will inform the result of the vote to IUSS secretariat for further administrative work.
- Advantages & disadvantages of staying as a WG or evolving to a Commission
Staying as a WG
l Advantages:
ü Clearly defined scope
ü Readability and visibility of topics and activities
ü SUITMA is like a family.
ü Members know each other well.
ü Members have good human-networking under the umbrella of SUITMA. A good human-networking with up to 200 persons in SUITMA is very important asset to the members of SUITMA.
ü Chairperson can be elected by and from the members of SUITMA. Since members know each other well, chances for an appropriate person to be elected as a chairperson are relatively high.
l Disadvantages:
ü Number of the members can be limited.
ü Let others take the lead for soils of anthropized areas
ü Become a marginal group
ü Risk of extinction
ü Limited potential for innovation and new ideas
Evolving to a Commission
l Advantages:
ü Expansion of the territory of SUITMA
ü Become the only group dealing with soils in anthropized areas within the IUSS
ü A wider audience among scientists and other disciplines joining SUITMA
ü Attraction of young scientists
ü More influence within the IUSS
ü More influence with other international institutions
ü Initiate and lead multidisciplinary and ambitious scientific programs
ü Organize conferences (like now)
ü New contacts and influences
ü Higher visibility and performance
ü Increasing relevance
l Disadvantages:
ü Danger of dissolution of community and restriction of activity
ü Breaking the familyness.
ü Chances to break the very important human-networking are high.
ü Once SUITMA becomes a commission, chairperson will be elected by an electrical vote. The number of the electrical votes are decided by the number of the members of the paid national member bodies (Big countries can easily influence the result.). Some people or countries like to use chairperson as ‘title’ not understanding SUITMA. In that case, the national member bodies may vote for the candidate from their countries who does not understand SUITMA well. If so, chances for an inappropriate person to be elected as a chairperson are relatively high.
Please vote here:
https://forms.gle/9TfofTJaJMJiLApYA
On May 20, 2022 in Toruń, the third international SUITMA seminar took place (https://sites.google.com/site/suitmaseminar/home), organized by a team composed of: dr hab. Piotr Hulisz, prof. UMK, dr hab. Przemysław Charzyński, prof. UMK, Sylwia Pindral, MA (Department of Soil Science and Landscape Management, WNOZiGP UMK), Sławomir Sulik, MA and students of Spatial Management and Geo-management (S2), Donata Wysocka and Alicja Stankiewicz. The meeting was organized in a hybrid formula, both face-to-face as well as on-line and was free of charge.
The opening Key Note speech of the seminar entitled 'Methods of soil analysis for microplastics with some case studies ” was delivered by prof. Kye Hoon (John) Kim (Chairman of the SUITMA Working Group of the International Union of Soil Science Societies, University of Seoul, South Korea). The stay of prof. J. Kim was financed by the EF international partnerships project under the "Excellence Initiative - Research University" program, coordinated by dr hab. Piotr Hulisz, prof. UMK. It concerns the development of bilateral cooperation in the field of research on threats to the urban environment, with particular emphasis on identifying problems related to the accumulation of plastics in soils. In addition, lectures and posters were presented by speakers from Iran, India, Algeria, Poland and Morocco.
[photo B. Pawłowski, P. Charzyński)
In 2018, Soil Science Society of Poland launched the ‘Soil of the Year’ program. The technogenic soil was chosen for the Soil of the Year 2020. On this occasion, an issue dedicated to technogenic soils in Soil Science Annual journal was prepared. You can find it at http://www.soilsa.com/Issue-4-2020,8068.
The issue contains 12 articles presenting the latest research trends related to SUITMAs - These are reviews, case studies and comprehensive analyses. Among authors you will find both the world pioneers of technogenic soil research and the current leaders of the SUITMA working group: Wolfgang Burghardt, Kye-Hoon John Kim, Jaroslava Sobocká and Ali Boularbah. You will find also paper with overview of new Polish concept of classification of SUITMAs.
We also invite you to publish your papers in Soil Science Annual (SSA) journal. SSA journal is a continuation of the “Roczniki Gleboznawcze” – the journal of the Soil Science Society of Poland first published in 1950. SSA is a quarterly publishing original papers, review papers and short communications devoted to a broad spectrum of issues relating to the soil environment. The journal is published in the open access system and is indexed in SCOPUS and Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science) databases. Please, see our website http://www.soilsa.com/en SUITMAs papers will be heartily welcomed!
Dear SUITMA members
I'm Andrés Rodríguez-Seijo, Junior Researcher at CIIMAR-Universidade do Porto, Portugal. I write you to share a new special issue about military activities and civilian/military shooting ranges, and will cover broad framework studies related to aquatic and terrestrial systems: i) contamination and risk assessment; ii) ecotoxicology; iii) impacts of military contamination on human health and biodiversity; and iv) mitigation measures applied to military sites (phytoremediation, phytotechnology, bioremediation; nanomaterials, etc.). Besides, submissions related to game hunting and environmental issues related to lead and non-lead bullets are also welcomed.
This special issue, "Shooting and Military Activities: A Holistic Approach From Source, Contamination and Remediation", will be host in the MDPI journal Applied Sciences (ISSN 2071-1050; IF 2.736, Q2: Engineering, Multidisciplinary | Q2: Physics, Applied | Q3: Chemistry, Multidisciplinary | Q3: Materials Science, Multidisciplinary JCR 2020).
We believe it could be an excellent opportunity since special issues related to civilian and military shooting ranges are scarce. The special issue is co-guest edited by Prof. Dr. Valentina V. Pidlisnyuk from Czech Republic https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Valentina-Pidlisnyuk, Dr. Peter Sanderson from Australia https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/peter-sanderson, and me, both with wide expertise on civilian and military areas, covering from soil contamination to remediation.
The official submission deadline for this special issue is 10 March 2022, although this deadline could be extended. You may submit your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open-access journal is 2000 CHF (Swiss Francs). However, there are available discounts, although they should be approved by MDPI editorial office. Please, feel free to distribute the announcement of this Special Issue to your colleagues.
For further information, please follow the link to the Special Issue website at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Contamination_Remediation
Best
Andrés Rodríguez-Seijo
Co-guest editor
Dear Friends and Colleagues!
The Faculty of Soil Science of Moscow State University is in the process of reviving its scientific journal. Moscow University Soil Science Bulletin is a scientific peer-reviewed journal that has been published in a separate series since 1977. The periodicity of the publication is 4 issues per year.
The journal publishes original articles and reviews on all fundamental and applied aspects of soil science. The editorial policy of the journal is aimed at presenting current research related to the understanding of the ecological functions of soils, as well as biological, chemical, and physical processes and interactions in soils, as widely as possible by subject and geographical scope.
Unfortunately, we cannot yet offer a publication reviewed by WoS and Scopus. However, the English version of the journal is prepared by the group of publishers Pleiades Publishing and is available open access on the Springer Nature website. Pleiades Publishing also forms the 5th special issue of the journal in English. Authors are not charged for publication of manuscripts. The authors retain the right to post their work on the Internet.
If you need to publish an article quickly, you can submit it for publication in the 5th issue of the current year (2021) befor the 10th of September.
Moscow University Soil Science Bulletin page on the publisher's website: https://www.pleiades.online/en/journal/bsoilmgu/
Articles are submitted through the author's portal of the publishing house Pleiades Publishing: https://publish.sciencejournals.ru/
How to publish an article in a scientific journal? (pleiades.online)
Moscow University Soil Science Bulletin is under reconstruction. If you have any difficulties with the system of submitting articles on the publisher's website, send us your articles to the editorial office.
E-mail of the Editorial Office: vestnik_17@soil.msu.ru
Actual rules and conditions for authors and a template for preparing an article are in the attached files.
On January 17th, 2020, the second SUITMA international scientific-educational seminar was organized in Toruń, Poland by dr hab. Przemysław Charzyński, prof. NCU, dr hab. Piotr Hulisz, prof. NCU and mgr Sylwia Pindral (Department of Soil Science and Landscape Management, Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń), members of the priority research team "Urban Soil Environment" and emerging field "Soil science, microbiology, agricultural genetics, and food quality". The Soil Science Society of Poland took the patronage over the SUITMA Seminar.
The SUITMA Seminar as a new cyclical and unique proposition of international scientific and didactic meeting, emphasizes the importance. The aim of the seminar was to present the
latest trends and exchange experiences related to soil research in urban, industrial, communication, mining and military areas (SUITMA). During the meeting, several presentations were given: by prof. John Kye Hoon Kim (chairman of the SUITMA working group within the International Union of Soil Sciences, University of Seoul, South Korea), prof. Jaroslava Sobocká (National Agricultural and Food Center, Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia), prof. Ali Boularbah (Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco), prof. dr hab. Cezary Kabała (vice-chairman of the Soil Science Society of Poland, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences), prof. dr hab. Anna Karczewska (the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences), mgr Magdalena Tarnawczyk (Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW) and dr Adam Michalski (Laboratory for Environmental Analysis, FESSM UMK in Toruń). Gallery of photos available HERE
Another very important point of this year's meeting was the inauguration of Polish Soil of the Year 2020. By the Soil Genesis, Classification and Cartography Commission of Polish Soil Science Society’s decission Technosol was chosen as the soil of 2020.
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Dates for SUITMA 11 are announced:
SUITMA 10 WEBSITE is open:
SUITMA 10 is oOrganized by
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SUIMA 9 research publication opportunities:
SUITMA 9 Proceedings will be published by Springer SBM NL as a volume of the conference proceedings series. Conference proceedings are visible in Web of Science, but do not have an impact factor (IF). SUITMA 9 Proceedings will contain short research papers of maximum 4000 words excluding references. The “Guidelines for Authors” defining the structure and the format of the papers is attached. Submitted papers will be reviewed and evaluated through a blind review procedure. We expect a 50% rejection rate.
Please send your manuscript by e-mail to info@suitma-russia.com and CC to vasenyov@mail.ru by October 1 2017
Journal of Environmental Quality (Scopus/WoS, IF = 3.0; Q1) is gauging interest in publishing SUITMA 9 contributions in a special edition. In total approximately 20 papers will be selected. All manuscripts shall be submitted on-line and will be processed following the regular journal specifications. For more information, please visit https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/jeq
Journal of Soils and Sediments (Scopus/WoS, IF = 2.5; Q2) traditionally publishes selected contributions from the SUITMA conferences as a special issue. Approximately 25-30 papers are selected. All manuscripts shall be formatted and will be reviewed following the journal specifications. For more information, please visit https://link.springer.com/journal/11368
Eurasian Soil Science (Scopus/WoS, IF = 0.6; Q3) provides a special issue to publish up to 10 papers from SUITMA 9 contributions. The manuscripts to this journal can be submitted in either English or Russian. For more information on the author requirements and review process please visit http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/engineering+geology/journal/11475
If you are interested in publishing in one of the proposed special issues and can submit your manuscript within the next six months, please send an abstract of your paper (maximum 300 words) by August 20 to info@suitma-russia.com with CC to vasenyov@mail.ru and
zcheng@brooklyn.cuny.edu (for submission to Journal of Environmental Quality)
jean-louis.morel@univ-lorraine.fr (for submission to Journal of Soils and Sediments), or to
tatianaprokofieva@yandex.ru (for submission to Eurasian Soil Science).
NEW Publications:
Soils within Cities - Edited by:: Maxine J. Levin; Kye-Hoon John Kim; Jean Louis Morel; Wolfgang Burghardt; Przemyslaw Charzynski & Richard K. Shaw
See details in Publications sub-page.
Urban Expansion, Land Cover and Soil Ecosystem Services - Edited by Ciro Gardi
See details in Publications sub-page.
Anthropogenic Soils;Authors: Howard, Jeffrey
See details in Publications sub-page.
