2015 International year of soil

Immersive reader

The 69th plenary meeting of the United Nations declared 2015 the International Year of the soil, with the title "Healthy soils for a healthy life".

Purpose of the many initiatives and celebrations that will be held this year in the world, is to increase awareness of the importance of soil for the survival of the planet.

Understanding the value of this resource has become in recent years a need that is unlikely to be postponed forward in time.

The growing global demand for food, the same quality of food, as well as adaptation to climate change, depends on how we all will be able to keep the soil healthy and fully protect its environmental functions There are many forms.

Soil is not just infrastructure support or collector of waste materials, but it is especially healthy food, clean water, genetic multiforme, in one word LIFE.

Appointments

Pedometrics

Cordoba, Spain- 14-18 September 2015.

Conference topics: Soil-landscape modelling: mechanistic & empirical. Soil Morphometrics (image analysis, remote sensing, 3D soil imaging),Sampling and monitoring. Field experimental design, Digital soil mapping and proximal soil sensing, Bayesian statistics and Hierarchical Modelling in soils,Uncertainties and Fuzzy cognitive mapping, Soil Spatial and Temporal Scaling, Soil Ecosystem Services.

8th Euregeo congress

Barcelona, Spain - 15th-17th June 2015

The Geological Survey of Emilia-Romagna, with geological surveys of Bavaria and Catalunya organizes a session dedicated to "SOIL: functions and threats", as part of the eighth edition of the European Congress EUREGEO 2015, to be held in Barcelona, 15 -17 June 2015.

This event celebrates the International Year of the Soil 2015.

Soil: functions and threats

Coordinator: Luca Montanarella (JRC)
Conveners: Ana Paya- Pérez (JRC), Panos Panagos (JRC), Rosa M. Poch (UdL)

Soil Contamination
Convener: Ana Paya- Pérez (JRC)

Diagnostics and Methodologies for assessing soil contamination.
Technologies and case studies on restoring contaminated sites.
Socio-economic and environmental processes in the management of contaminated sites.

Soil Erosion
Convener: Panos Panagos (JRC)

Strategies to mitigate restore and manage soil erosion.
Modelling soil erosion processes, achievements and challenges.
Developments in map design and cartographic visualization of soil erosion.

Soil Mapping
Convener: Rosa M. Poch (UdL)

Advances in digital soil mapping.
Proximal soil sensing for precision agriculture.
Soil quality assessment.
Survey and mapping for soil carbon inventories.

EUREGEO 2015 - Soil: function and threats session - presentations


GSW 2015: Soil. The substance of transformation The third Global soil week will take place in Berlin, Germany from 9 to 23 April 2015
International conference on "Land quality and landscape processes" Hungary, 2-4 June 2015, Keszthely