European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly (14–19 April 2024, in Vienna & online)

SSS1.4 Soils as the memory of past environmental conditions and human impacts

https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/session/50086

Conveners: Oren Ackermann, Maria Bronnikova, Martin Janovský, Anna Andreetta, Brad Sion

Session description:

Soils are the expression of complex relationships among soil-forming factors, a notion commonly referred to as the functional-factorial model of soil development. This basic principle of soil genesis drives the concept of soil memory: the capability of soil systems to retain information about environmental conditions and other intrinsic features (i.e., environmental indicators). As such, soils are valuable records of current and past environmental conditions that enable us to study their relevance as environmental archives among more common and extensively studied examples (e.g., sediments, glaciers and underground ice, speleothems, tree rings, etc.). Contemporary polygenetic surface soils (those that have endured one or more environmental changes), along with paleosols, offer valuable insights into the reconstruction of environmental factors present during their formation. These materials also help us unravel the relative influences of various environmental conditions, both local and regional, on soil formation. Despite the increasing consideration of palaeosols in sedimentary successions, studies of soils as part of soil-sedimentary record/memory are still underrepresented. This session is open to all contributions focused on the studies of palaeosols and contemporary polygenetic soils, including anthropogenic and anthropogenically affected ones, with a particular focus on their environmental history. We also encourage research related to soils, pedosediments, and soil materials from archaeological sites, and consider paleoenvironmental soil studies that blend novel methods of analysis, such as a variety biomarkers and isotopes, high‐resolution visual recording in micromorphology, high-resolution X-ray tomography, micro-XRF for high-resolution chemical mapping, SIMS and NanoSIMS high-resolution secondary ion mass spectrometry), Raman Microspectroscopy, etc.

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Centennial Celebration and Congress of the International Union of Soil Sciences 

May 19-21, 2024

Please, find a short video-announce of the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz2tVhK9ZDo

Here you’ll find the comprehensive list of submitted sessions:

https://centennialiuss2024.org/submitted-sessions/#1688479911291-7377540a-c7f4

Commission 1.6 Paleopedology invites you to contribute our session ID133768 Soils of the Past for Present and Future: Marking the 100th Birthday of Dan H. Yaalon.

Conveners: Maria Bronnikova, Elizabeth Solleiro Rebolledo, Fabio Scarciglia

Session description:

The motto of the section is “The past creates the present, the present creates the future”. Soil development is dictated by soil forming factors and their changes in time which are usually triggered by climatic change and/or human impacts. Contemporary soils and soil cover cannot be wholly understood without comprehending the history of soils: their heritage based on former developments of environment and soil forming processes. At the same time, the knowledge of the past and understanding of the present of the soils and their environmental backgrounds can contribute to understanding the future of soil systems and their environment both in local and global contexts.

Thus, the section welcomes all the contributions devoted to paleosols or paleofeatures in contemporary soils especially concerned in the explanation of nowadays soils and environments and prognoses of their future developments.

A special focus of this section is the retrospective analysis of soil organic and inorganic carbon with paleoenvironmental change, and its potential contribution to CO2 emission and sequestration in changing environments.

Abstracts submission deadline: 15 January 2024.

A non-refundable fee of Euro 25 (vat included) will be requested for each abstract submission.

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You will be informed of acceptance of your submission by email starting from 26 February 2024.

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7th  International Soil Classification Congress (ISCC)  - June 3-9, 2024, Hokkaido, Japan

All details are available here: https://iscc2024.org/index.html

Registration deadline: January 19, 2024.

Due to this conference and field session focused on Andosols, the Working Group WRB will not host another field workshop in 2024. Thus, we highly recommend participation in this conference and associated discussions.