Commission 1.6: 2023-2024

Commission 1.6: individual events and sessions within big international events 2023-2024

INQUA Congress 2023, July, 2023, Roma, Oral session 190 Paleosol memory of environmental change and man-landscape interactions: from soil profile to geosystem. Conveners: E.S. Rebolledo, F. Scarciglia, 8 oral presentations, and 14 posters.

XIV International symposium and field workshop on paleopedology Soil Memory of Contemporary and paleo environments, October 7th-15th 2023, Las Cruces, New Mexico State University, USA. Responsible organizers: Maria Bronnikova, Curtis Monger. Registration is open. Please, find details in the announcement: https://inqua.org/meetings/list/76?type=Meeting

XV International symposium and field workshop on paleopedology (ISFWP XIV), Calabria, Italy, 2024. Will be scheduled directly before or after IUSS Centennial Celebration and Congress.

Academic sessions will be held at the University of Calabria, Italy

Responsible organizer: Fabio Scarciglia, Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, Italy

Centennial Celebration and Congress of the International Union of Soil Sciences, Florence, Italy, May 19-21, 2024

Commission 1.6 plans two sessions (will be submitted shortly):

-       Soils of the Past for Present and Future (within the announced general topic Soil sciences impact on basic knowledge)

-       Soils, environment, and cultural heritage: multifactorial interactions (within the announced general topic: Soil and humanity)

17 International conference on soil micromorphology, December 2 – 4, 2024, Puno, Peru

Commission 1.6 will contribute to the announced session Paleopedology and Geoarchaeological approach.

European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly

Commission 1.6 annually participate in organizing of paleosol-related session within the program block SSS3 – Soils as Records in Time and Space.

Newsletters

We plan to keep provide the Commission 1.6 Newsletter twice a year. The next issue is scheduled to November 2023. Responsible editor is Lilit Pogosyan Institute of Ecology (INECOL), lilit.pogosyan@inecol.mx

 Website development

We will continue to reconstruct Commission website. Responsible person is the secretary of the Commission Fatima Kurbanova, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, fatima.kurbanova@igras.ru.