Programme Groups

SSS – Soil System Sciences


ML14
Philippe Duchaufour Medal Lecture by Fiorenzo Cesare Ugolini
Convener: T. Miano 
SSS1
The scale problem in soil erosion studies
Convener: A. Cerdà  | Co-Conveners: M. Nearing , R. Brazier , J. de Vente 
SSS2
Vegetation and erosion
Co-Conveners: De alba , A. Cerdà , M. Kirkby , G. Govers 
SSS3
Significance of patchiness on landscape. A soil, vegetation and hydrological approach
Convener: D. Dunkerley  | Co-Convener: A. Cerdà 
SSS4
Soil system studies along climatological transects
Convener: Lavee  | Co-Conveners: J. D. Ruiz Sinoga , A. Cerdà 
SSS6
Integrated research in wooded rangelands of Mediterranean type climates
Co-Conveners: Papanastasis , Huntsinger 
SSS7
Soil erosion and sediment control with vegetation and bioengineering on severely eroded terrain
Convener: F. Rey  | Co-Conveners: H. P. Rauch , E. Bochet , J. Poesen 
SSS8
Treated waste water reuse for soil irrigation. Modification of soil properties
Convener: F. García-Orenes  | Co-Conveners: M. Lado , E. van den Elsen 
SSS9
Preferential flow as a scale problem: From pore scale up to the catchment scale
Convener: H. H. Gerke  | Co-Convener: A. Coppola 
SSS10
Management strategies to increase water use efficiency in soils
Convener: M. Lado  | Co-Convener: M. Ben-Hur 
SSS11
Linking soil properties to landscape processes. Towards a regional prediction
Convener: B. van Wesemael  | Co-Conveners: T. Vanwalleghem , K. Van Oost 
SSS12
Digital soil mapping: novel approaches (including geophysical measurements) to the prediction of key soil properties for modelling physical processes
Convener: Carré  | Co-Convener: O. Cerdan 
SSS14/HS11.8
Tracing sediments and colloids in the environment (co-organized)
Convener: J. Quinton  | Co-Conveners: J. A. Gomez , M. Nearing , K. Michaelides 
SSS17
Experimental Methods in Soil Erosion Studies
Convener: M. Seeger  | Co-Conveners: J. Quinton , N. J. Kuhn 
SSS18/BG2.8/NH8.3
Wildfire in Forest Landscapes: Desertification, Degradation, Debris Flows, & Damage Control (co-organized)
Convener: L. Wittenberg  | Co-Convener: S. Bautista 
SSS19
Soil fauna, carbon cycle and climate change
Convener: E. Cammeraat  | Co-Conveners: J. Frouz , Jurgensen , Forschler 
SSS20
Soil degradation and Abandoned Lands in Mediterranean environments
Convener: E. Cammeraat  | Co-Conveners: J. B. Ries , J. D. Ruiz Sinoga 
SSS21/GM3.2
Soil erosion, sedimentation and the carbon cycle (co-organized)
Convener: N. J. Kuhn  | Co-Conveners: Martínez-Mena , T. Hoffmann , S. Glatzel , E. Cammeraat , Jacinthe 
SSS23
Applications and new developments of magnetic resonance techniques in soil science
Convener: P. Conte  | Co-Conveners: A. E. Berns , Alonzo , A. Pohlmeier 
SSS24
Synchrotron radiation in soil and geosciences
Convener: Terzano  | Co-Conveners: Denecke , Medici 
SSS25
Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy in soil science and land resource assessment
Co-Convener: C. Guerrero 
SSS26
Organic soils: impact of land-use change on peatlands degradation
Convener: L. W. Szajdak  | Co-Convener: T. Miano 
SSS27
Soils and pedosediments as environmental archives
Convener: P. Kühn  | Co-Convener: Terhorst 
SSS28
Soil organic matter supplies: impacts and implications
Convener: C. Ciavatta 
SSS29
Biogeochemical Interfaces in Soil
Convener: K. U. Totsche  | Co-Conveners: Schloter , T. Rennert 
SSS30
Microbial functioning of rhizosphere and management of trace element contaminated soils
Co-Conveners: Schloter , Renella 
SSS31
Soil aggregates: a concept at different spatial and temporal scales
Convener: L. P. D'Acqui  | Co-Conveners: Papadopoulos , C. Chenu 
SSS32
Pedogeochemical mapping of potentially toxic elements
Convener: J. Bech  | Co-Convener: C. Pérez-Sirvent 
SSS34
Initial soil formation (including Philippe Duchaufour Medal Lecture)
Convener: W. Schaaf 
SSS35
Soil organic matter, soil management systems, and pesticide fate
Convener: P. Burauel  | Co-Convener: Semple 
SSS37
X-ray Computed Tomography in Geo-sciences: 3D visualization and quantification
Convener: Papadopoulos  | Co-Conveners: Carminati , H.-J. Vogel , S. Mooney 
SSS38
The molecular biogeochemical fate of terrestrial organic carbon
Convener: K. G. J. Nierop  | Co-Conveners: B. Jansen , Bull 
NP3.9/SSS39
Complexity and nonlinearity in soils (co-organized)
Convener: A. M. Tarquis  | Co-Conveners: R. M. Lark , Perrier 
SSS41
Denitrification in soils under field conditions - advances in quantification, controlling factors and process-based modelling
Convener: R. Well  | Co-Convener: K. Butterbach-Bahl 
BG1.7/SSS42
Long-term platforms as tool for understanding biogeochemical cycles under climate change (co-organized)
Convener: A. Chabbi  | Co-Convener: C. Rumpel 
GMPV19/GM3.1/SSS43
Chemical and physical monitoring of the critical zone (co-sponsored by EAG) (co-organized)
Convener: Gaillardet  | Co-Convener: N. Hovius 
NH9.1/BG2.10/SSS44
Heavy-metal contamination of water, air, soil, and foodcrops (co-organized)
Convener: J. A. Holden  | Co-Conveners: Kostarelos , B. D. Malamud , L. Li 
EOS2
New, original and successful ideas for teaching on Earth Sciences
Convener: A. Cerdà  | Co-Conveners: M. Manea , Sparrow 
AS1.14
African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA)
Convener: C. Taylor  | Co-Conveners: Janicot , H. Kunstmann , B. Marticorena 
BG1.2
Peatlands and the carbon cycle
Convener: S. Glatzel  | Co-Convener: F. Worrall 
BG1.3
Stability and Functions of Mountain Soils
Convener: C. Alewell 
BG1.5
Biogeochemistry of dissolved organic matter: characterisation, distribution and ecosystem roles
Convener: G. Uher 
BG1.8
Interactions between the carbon and hydrological cycle and the climate system
Convener: C. Beer  | Co-Convener: M. Reichstein 
BG1.9
Analysis and Characterization of Black Carbon in the Environment
Convener: M. W. I. Schmidt  | Co-Convener: Ö. Gustafsson 
CR6.3
Biogeochemistry and Soil genesis in seasonally snow-covered areas
Convener: M. Freppaz  | Co-Conveners: Zanini , G. Corti , Balestrini 
GI1/MPRG22
Open Session on Geoscience Instrumentation
Convener: H. Svedhem  | Co-Conveners: V. Korepanov , A.-M. Harri 
GI8
Down hole Instrumentation: Technology and Applications
Co-Conveners: Celerier , Davies , J. Kück 
GM6.1
Soil erosion and geomorphology (including Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal Lecture)
Convener: M. Kirkby 
HS3.5
Subsurface flow, solute transport, and energy processes: concepts, modelling, and observations
Convener: W. Durner  | Co-Convener: E. Zechner 
HS4.1
Monitoring and Modelling for Transfer Processes in the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum
Convener: N. Romano  | Co-Conveners: R. Angulo-Jaramillo , C. K. Macleod 
HS4.2
Unsaturated zone flow and transport processes: from science to soil and water management
Convener: M. Vanclooster  | Co-Conveners: S. Ferraris , A. Coppola 
HS4.4
Soil-plant interactions from the rhizosphere to field scale
Convener: M. Javaux  | Co-Conveners: N. Ursino , M. van der Ploeg , J. Vanderborght 
HS4.6
Large lysimeter studies for flow and transport model validation
Convener: W. Durner  | Co-Conveners: T. Puetz , J. Fank 
HS4.7
The role of interfaces in flow and transport in porous media
Convener: P. Lehmann  | Co-Convener: I. Neuweiler 
HS11.3
Sediment response to catchment disturbances
Convener: E. Petticrew  | Co-Conveners: P. Owens , M. van der Perk 
NH8.2/AS4.5/CL23
Wildfires, Weather and Climate
Convener: M. Pereira  | Co-Conveners: R. Trigo , Wotton 
NP3.8/HS13.09
Solid Earth geocomplexity: surface processes, morphology and natural resources over wide ranges of scale
Co-Convener: Q. Cheng