SSS – Soil System Sciences
Programme Group Chairs: Horst Herbert Gerke, Nunzio Romano, Jaume Bech, Ana Maria Tarquis, Axel Don, Paolo Tarolli, Claudio Zaccone, Daniela Sauer, Elena Korobova, Agata Novara, Heike Knicker, Saskia Keesstra, Giuseppe Provenzano, César Plaza, Lily Pereg (deceased), Anna Smetanova, David C. Finger, Bradley Miller
- SSS0 – General Soil Science
- SSS1 – History, Education and Society of Soil Science, taxonomy
- SSS2 – Land Degradation and Soil Conservation
- SSS3 – Soils as Records in Time and Space
- SSS4 – Soil Biology, Microbiology and Biodiversity
- SSS5 – Soil Chemistry
- SSS6 – Soil Organic Matter
- SSS7 – Soil Physics
- SSS8 – Soil Pollution and Reclamation
- SSS9 – Soil, Environment and Ecosystem Interactions
- SSS10 – Soils, Forestry and Agriculture
- SSS11 – Metrics, Informatics and Statistics in Soils
- SSS12 – Material and Methods in Soil Science
- SSS13 – Co-organized sessions
- SSE – Special scientific events
DM20/SSS ECS Division meeting for Soil System Sciences (SSS) (co-organized) |
Convener: Saskia Keesstra |
Tue, 25 Apr, 12:15–13:15
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ML1/GM/SSS Alexander von Humboldt Medal Lecture by Johan Bouma (co-organized) |
Conveners: Hans Thybo , Jonathan Bamber |
Orals
/ Fri, 28 Apr, 12:15–13:15
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ML23/SSS Philippe Duchaufour Medal Lecture by Peter Smith (co-organized) |
Convener: Saskia Keesstra |
Orals
/ Tue, 25 Apr, 19:00–20:00
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ML45/SSS SSS Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Victoria Arcenegui (co-organized) |
Convener: Saskia Keesstra |
Orals
/ Thu, 27 Apr, 08:30–08:45
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Programme Group Scientific Officers: Artemi Cerdà, Saskia Keesstra
US1/AS4.52/BG9.67/CL4.20/SSS0.4 Vegetation-climate interactions across time scales |
Convener: Gilles Ramstein | Co-Conveners: Wu-Kuang Soh , Hugo de Boer |
Programme Group Scientific Officer: Bradley Miller
SSS1.2/EOS22 Soil Science Education (co-organized) |
Convener: David L. Lindbo | Co-Conveners: Bradley Miller , Jerry Maroulis |
SSS1.4 Soil, Art, Culture, and History |
Convener: Eric C. Brevik | Co-Conveners: Jorge Mataix-Solera , Rosa M. Poch , Christian Feller , Cristine Carole Muggler , Paulo Pereira |
SSS1.5 Environment science, public perception, stakeholders and policy makers |
Convener: Paulo Pereira | Co-Conveners: Panos Panagos , Agata Novara , Sigbert Huber , Aleksandra Tomczyk |
SSS1.6/AS4.51/BG9.13/CL3.06/HS11.43/NH9.22 European Environmental Policies and Sustainability (co-organized) |
Convener: Panos Panagos |
SSS1.7/AS4.49/CL5.20/HS11.44/NH9.21 “Lighthouse” examples, illustrating soil relevance for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) (co-organized) |
Convener: Johan Bouma | Co-Convener: Anna Smetanova |
PICOs
/ Thu, 27 Apr, 08:30–12:00
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Programme Group Scientific Officer: Agata Novara
SSS2.1 Land Degradation and Development. A State-of-the-Art |
Convener: Saskia Keesstra |
SSS2.4 Gully and rill erosion: recent research progress |
Convener: Javier Casalí | Co-Conveners: Miguel A. Campo-Bescós , Robert Wells , Fenli Zheng , Christian Conoscenti |
SSS2.8/BG9.44 Soil quality assessment in degraded ecosystems: Global advances and challenges (co-organized) |
Convener: Isabel Miralles Mellado | Co-Conveners: Raúl Zornoza , Felipe Bastida , Mirko Castellini , R. Lal , Maurício Cherubin |
PICOs
/ Thu, 27 Apr, 15:30–17:00
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SSS2.10 Soils of marginal lands – definition, assessment and land use options |
Convener: Werner Gerwin | Co-Conveners: Wibke Dr. Baumgarten , Federica Barbera , Diego Mattioli |
SSS2.16/GM7.7/HS11.50 Agricultural terraces of the world. Their pedological, geomorphological and hydrological role (co-organized) |
Convener: Paolo Tarolli | Co-Conveners: Corrado Camera , Roey Egozi , Estela Nadal Romero , Markus Dotterweich , Yuanmei Jiao , Wei Wei |
PICOs
/ Thu, 27 Apr, 13:30–15:00
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SSS2.18 New challanges in Land Degradation and Restoration research |
Convener: Agata Novara | Co-Conveners: Joris de Vente , Saskia Keesstra , Joel Sankey , Joanna Nield |
SSS2.20/HS11.51 Innovation and new challenges in sharing research results and knowledge of soil and water resources: experiences on strategic thinking, technologies and collaborative work. (co-organized) |
Convener: Encarnación Taguas | Co-Conveners: Agata Novara , Emmanouil Varouchakis |
PICOs
/ Wed, 26 Apr, 13:30–15:00
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NH3.7/GM8.5/SSS2.24 Mechanics of Mass Flows (co-organized) |
Convener: Roland Kaitna | Co-Conveners: Brian McArdell , Jim McElwaine , Elisabeth Bowman |
NH7.1/SSS2.26 Spatial and temporal patterns of wildfires: models, theory, and reality (co-organized) |
Convener: Mário Pereira | Co-Conveners: Ricardo Trigo , Marj Tonini , Nikos Koutsias |
GM11.1/SSS2.33 Aeolian Processes and Landforms (co-organized) |
Convener: Joanna Nield | Co-Conveners: Matthew Baddock , John Gillies , Clement Narteau |
NH4.6/SM3.10/SSS2.36 Soil liquefaction; susceptibility, hazard and mitigation measures (co-organized) |
Convener: Harun Sonmez | Co-Convener: George Papathanassiou |
PICOs
/ Tue, 25 Apr, 08:30–10:00
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Programme Group Scientific Officer: Daniela Sauer
SSS3.1 DEMs, LEMs and PalaeoDEMs: latest developments in Geosciences |
Convener: Jeroen M. Schoorl | Co-Conveners: Becky Briant , John Wainwright |
PICOs
/ Mon, 24 Apr, 13:30–15:00
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SSS3.4 Media Geomorphological and (palaeo-)pedological records of natural environmental factors and human impact |
Convener: Daniela Sauer | Co-Convener: Florian Hirsch |
SSS3.5 Geochemical mapping at all scales: evidence from soil, sediment, water and plants |
Convener: Philippe Negrel | Co-Convener: Edith Haslinger |
Programme Group Scientific Officer: Lily Pereg (deceased)
SSS4.5/BG9.57/CL2.12 Plant-soil-microbial interactions under global change (co-organized) |
Convener: Kelly Ramirez | Co-Conveners: Evgenia Blagodatskaya , Yakov Kuzyakov , Xingliang Xu , Alain Brauman |
SSS4.7 Soil biodiversity in natural and agricultural ecosystems |
Convener: Katarina Hedlund | Co-Conveners: Lily Pereg (deceased) , Richard Bardgett |
SSS4.8 Carbon and nutrient cycling in biological activity hot spots in soil |
Convener: Eva Oburger | Co-Conveners: Ellen Kandeler , Ingo Schöning , Thomas Wutzler |
SSS4.9 Media Soil and human health |
Convener: Lily Pereg (deceased) | Co-Conveners: Johan Six , Eric C. Brevik |
PICOs
/ Mon, 24 Apr, 08:30–10:00
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SSS4.11 Role of soil biota in soil functioning and ecosystem service provision |
Convener: Rachel Creamer | Co-Conveners: Michiel Rutgers , Martin Potthoff , Stefan Schrader , Johann Zaller |
SSS4.16 Unravelling soil-biota interactions using micro-scale analyses |
Convener: Hannes Schmidt | Co-Conveners: Naoise Nunan , Thilo Eickhorst |
PICOs
/ Thu, 27 Apr, 10:30–12:00
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SSS4.17/BG9.9 Biological soil crusts: their history, diversity, functional roles and threats (co-organized) |
Convener: Bettina Weber | Co-Conveners: Federico Rossi , Jayne Belnap , Emilio Rodriguez-Caballero |
PICOs
/ Wed, 26 Apr, 08:30–10:00
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Programme Group Scientific Officer: César Plaza
SSS5.4 Future challenges in biochar research |
Convener: Jorge Paz-Ferreiro | Co-Conveners: Gabriel Gascó Guerrero , Ana María Méndez , José María De la Rosa , César Plaza , Claudio Zaccone |
SSS5.17 General Soil Chemistry: from basic research to environmental aspects to food security |
Convener: Claudio Zaccone | Co-Conveners: César Plaza , Maria Manuela Abreu , Anna Gunina |
BG2.12/SSS5.18 Biogeochemistry of peatlands and lakes (co-organized) |
Convener: Nigel Roulet |
Programme Group Scientific Officer: Heike Knicker
SSS6.2/BG9.11 Soil organic matter turnover: from molecules to ecosystems and back again (co-organized) |
Convener: Boris Jansen | Co-Conveners: Karen Vancampenhout , Cornelia Rumpel |
SSS6.5/BG9.55 Natural and pyrogenic organic carbon and nitrogen in soils: Function, fate, analytical challenges and how this relates to the concept of humic substances (co-organized) |
Convener: Heike Knicker | Co-Conveners: José María De la Rosa , María López-Martín , Marta Velasco Molina , Claudio Zaccone |
PICOs
/ Wed, 26 Apr, 10:30–12:00
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SSS6.7/BG9.29/GM8.9 Lateral transport of soil organic carbon: the role of erosion/deposition, land use changes, forest fires and other disturbances (co-organized) |
Convener: Julian Campo | Co-Conveners: Erik Cammeraat , Asmeret Asefaw Berhe , Jan Jacob Keizer , María Fernández Raga |
PICOs
/ Fri, 28 Apr, 08:30–10:00
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BG2.7/SSS6.13 Peatlands and the Carbon Cycle (co-organized) |
Convener: Gareth Clay | Co-Conveners: Fred Worrall , Stephan Glatzel |
SSS7.4/AS4.7/BG9.32 Production and transport of gases in the soil: measurements and modelling (co-organized) |
Convener: Martin Maier | Co-Conveners: Bernard Longdoz , Jukka Pumpanen , Nicholas Nickerson |
PICOs
/ Fri, 28 Apr, 13:30–15:00
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SSS7.10/HS8.3.12 Innovative methods for characterizing physical soil properties and monitoring soil moisture (co-organized) |
Convener: Sascha Iden | Co-Convener: Tobias Karl David Weber |
PICOs
/ Mon, 24 Apr, 13:30–15:00
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SSS7.12/BG9.24/HS8.3.13/SSP3.12 Microenvironments in soils and sediments - linking concepts, experiments and models (co-organized) |
Convener: Philippe C. Baveye | Co-Conveners: Wilfred Otten , Hannes Schmidt |
Posters
/ Attendance Tue, 25 Apr, 17:30–19:00
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Programme Group Scientific Officer: Jaume Bech
SSS8.3 Interdisciplinary approaches to improve bioremediation and biomining techniques and reduce soil pollution |
Convener: Oliver Wiche | Co-Conveners: Thanh Dao , Balázs Székely |
PICOs
/ Tue, 25 Apr, 13:30–15:00
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SSS8.7 Novel sorbent materials for environmental remediation |
Convener: Ioannis Manariotis | Co-Conveners: Hrissi K. Karapanagioti , David Werner |
PICOs
/ Tue, 25 Apr, 15:30–17:00
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NH8.1/SSS8.11 Environmental contamination: heavy metals, minerals, radionuclides and dusts (co-organized) |
Convener: Sezin Czarnecki | Co-Conveners: Loretta Li , Gavin Gillmore , Robin Crockett |
Mon, 24 Apr, 15:30–17:00
Posters
/ Attendance Mon, 24 Apr, 17:30–19:00
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Programme Group Scientific Officer: Anna Smetanova
SSS9.2 Soil quality and health in agriculture areas: impact of current and novel management practices |
Convener: Carla Ferreira | Co-Conveners: Paulo Pereira , Chris Stoate , Ryunosuke Kikuchi |
SSS9.17/CL2.10 Land Use and Climate Change Impact on Grasslands and Wetlands: a Pedological, Hydrological, Biological and Geomorphological Approach (co-organized) |
Convener: Xingliang Xu | Co-Conveners: Xiaoyong Cui , Huai Chen |
Posters
/ Attendance Wed, 26 Apr, 17:30–19:00
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SSS9.19 Fate of pollutants in soil and water/sediment systems |
Convener: Roberta Masin | Co-Conveners: Dragana Dordevic , Alessandra Cardinali , Mélanie Kah , David C. Finger |
PICOs
/ Tue, 25 Apr, 08:30–10:00
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AS2.2/SSS9.26 Air-Land Interactions (General Session) (co-sponsored by iLEAPS) (co-organized) |
Convener: Andreas Ibrom | Co-Conveners: Thomas Foken , Christoph Thomas , Marc Aubinet |
AS2.4/HS11.2/SSS9.28 Challenges of a changing Mediterranean natural environment (co-organized) |
Convener: Jennifer Brooke | Co-Conveners: Martin Best , Jan Polcher , Aaron Boone |
PICOs
/ Mon, 24 Apr, 08:30–12:00
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NH3.2/SM8.6/SSS9.30 Mechanisms and processes of landslides in seismically or volcanically active environments (co-organized) |
Convener: Randall W. Jibson | Co-Conveners: Vincenzo Del Gaudio , Janusz Wasowski , Hiroshi Fukuoka , Chyi-Tyi Lee |
Posters
/ Attendance Thu, 27 Apr, 17:30–19:00
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HS5.6/SSS9.33 Catchment Science and Management: Nature-Based Solutions for rural and urban environments (co-organized) |
Convener: Mark Wilkinson | Co-Conveners: Paul Quinn , Brian Kronvang |
PICOs
/ Tue, 25 Apr, 15:30–17:00
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BG2.10/SSS9.37 Greenhouse gases balance and management in natural and anthropogenic boreal landscapes (co-organized) |
Convener: Ivan Vasenev | Co-Convener: Riccardo Valentini |
PICOs
/ Fri, 28 Apr, 13:30–15:00
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Programme Group Scientific Officer: Giuseppe Provenzano
SSS10.2 Organic Farming and Soil management |
Convener: Marta María Moreno Valencia | Co-Conveners: Carmen Moreno Valencia , Paul Mäder , Jaime Villena |
SSS10.5 Novel soil management approaches to address the impact of agriculture on the soil system: practice and education |
Convener: Eric C. Brevik | Co-Conveners: Douglas Landblom , Lily Pereg (deceased) , Songul Senturklu , Beatriz Lozano-García , Luis Parras-Alcántara , Maricke van Leeuwen , Cathelijne Stoof , Nicholas Holden |
PICOs
/ Mon, 24 Apr, 13:30–17:00
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SSS10.7 Environmental processes and land managements that influence vineyard ecosystem and wine quality |
Convener: Edoardo Costantini | Co-Conveners: Emmanuelle Vaudour , Silvia Winter , Maria Concepción Ramos , Simone Priori |
PICOs
/ Mon, 24 Apr, 10:30–12:00
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SSS10.8/BG9.6/HS9.11 Soil Erosion, hydrological processes and biological degradation in worldwide vineyards (co-organized) |
Convener: Jesús Rodrigo-Comino | Co-Conveners: Massimo Prosdocimi , Andrés García-Díaz , Paolo Tarolli , Johannes B. Ries |
PICOs
/ Mon, 24 Apr, 08:30–10:00
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SSS10.12/ERE2.5 Conservation of land resources and land tenure systems (co-organized) |
Convener: Min Liu | Co-Conveners: Nico Heerink , Fabio Bartolini , Peter Kuikman , J.-F. Soussana |
BG2.3/CL2.31/SSS10.17 Media Forest Management under Climate Change (co-organized) |
Convener: Fabrizio D Aprile |
BG2.19/SSS10.19 Forests and the methane and nitrous oxide cycles (co-organized) |
Convener: Mari Pihlatie | Co-Conveners: Vincent Gauci , Sunitha Pangala , Katerina Machacova |
PICOs
/ Thu, 27 Apr, 08:30–10:00
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Programme Group Scientific Officer: Ana Maria Tarquis
SSS11.5/ESSI4.10/HS11.61/NH9.23 Communication of uncertain information in earth sciences: data, models and visualization (co-organized) |
Convener: Alice Milne | Co-Conveners: Niklas Röber , Jon Blower , Michael Böttinger |
PICOs
/ Fri, 28 Apr, 10:30–12:00
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SSS11.6/BG9.42/NP10.7 Integrating Soil Systems Ecology into biogeochemical models (co-organized) |
Convener: Christina Kaiser | Co-Conveners: Stefanie Widder , Stefano Manzoni , Sara König , Nadezda Vasilyeva |
PICOs
/ Tue, 25 Apr, 08:30–10:00
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IE3.6/GM1.8/AS4.50/BG9.65/CL5.26/HS11.23/SSS11.11 R’s deliberate role in Earth sciences (co-organized) |
Convener: Michael Dietze | Co-Conveners: Sebastian Kreutzer , Oliver Korup |
PICOs
/ Tue, 25 Apr, 08:30–10:00
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Programme Group Scientific Officer: Paolo Tarolli
SSS12.2/GM1.9/HS11.63 Experiments in Earth Surface Processes - From understanding to quantification (co-organized) |
Convener: Manuel Seeger | Co-Conveners: Miriam Marzen , Nikolaus J. Kuhn |
SSS12.6/GI2.13/GM3.9 Unmanned Aerial Systems: Platforms, Sensors and Applications in Soil, Agriculture and Geosciences (co-organized) |
Convener: Michael Smith | Co-Conveners: Mike James , Damià Vericat , Karen Anderson |
PICOs
/ Fri, 28 Apr, 13:30–15:00
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SSS12.13/BG9.26 Innovative analytical methods and hyphenated techniques in soil analysis (co-organized) |
Convener: Tonu Tonutare | Co-Conveners: Viia Lepane , Manfred Sager |
PICOs
/ Tue, 25 Apr, 10:30–12:00
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GI3.8/HS11.10/SSS12.19 Broadband and multi/hyper-spectral IR sensing techniques for the retrieval of land surface temperature and emissivity; IR sensing for environmental studies (i.e geo-hazards, agriculture, atmosphere and urban) (co-organized) |
Co-Conveners: Stefano Pignatti , Eyal Ben Dor , M. Schlerf , Angelo Palombo |
Posters
/ Attendance Wed, 26 Apr, 17:30–19:00
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GI1.1/EMRP4.16/SSS12.25 Applications of Data, Methods and Models in Geosciences (co-organized) |
Convener: Sid-Ali Ouadfeul | Co-Conveners: Leila Aliouane , Nicolas Younan |
GI3.6/EMRP4.18/ERE5.9/SSP1.7/SSS12.27 Geoscientific Underground Labs and Test Sites (co-organized) |
Convener: Jochem Kück | Co-Conveners: Stefan Buske , Suvi Heinonen , María de los Ángeles García Juanatey |
Posters
/ Attendance Tue, 25 Apr, 17:30–19:00
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GM1.1/EOS20/CL5.18/SSS13.1 Beyond the case study: Concepts in Earth Sciences (co-organized) |
Convener: Michael Dietze | Co-Conveners: Margret Fuchs , Jan Henrik Blöthe , Anouk Beniest , Stuart Lane |
NH9.5/AS4.32/CL2.27/HS11.38/SM3.9/SSS13.3 Natural Hazard and Risk Assessment in Developing Countries (co-organized) |
Convener: Faith Taylor | Co-Conveners: Bruce D. Malamud , Andreas Günther |
PICOs
/ Tue, 25 Apr, 13:30–15:00
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SC8/GM13.5/SSS13.7 Modelling soilscape development (co-organized) |
Convener: Peter Finke | Co-Conveners: Kristof Van Oost , Benjamin Campforts |
Thu, 27 Apr, 08:30–10:00
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SC10/SSS13.8 Soil mapping and process modelling at diverse scales (co-organized) |
Convener: Paulo Pereira | Co-Conveners: Miriam Muñoz-Rojas , Eric C. Brevik , Bradley Miller |
Tue, 25 Apr, 08:30–10:00
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BG1.9/SSS13.11 Interdisciplinary session on the global Phosphorus cycle (co-organized) |
Convener: Tom Jilbert | Co-Conveners: Phil Haygarth , Daniel Blackburn , Ben Surridge , Federica Tamburini , Christian März , Tobias Goldhammer , Friederike Lang , Jaane Krüger |
PICOs
/ Fri, 28 Apr, 08:30–10:00
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SC16/SSS13.12 Accessing and using global soil data (co-organized) |
Convener: Tomislav Hengl |
Fri, 28 Apr, 10:30–12:00
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SC42/SSS13.14 Measurement and interpretation of redox potentials in soils and sediments (co-organized) |
Convener: Michel Vorenhout |
Tue, 25 Apr, 10:30–12:00
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SC61/SSS13.15 International Decade of Soils: Ideas for outreach activities (co-organized) |
Convener: Sigbert Huber | Co-Convener: Rainer Horn |
Tue, 25 Apr, 13:30–15:00
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SC89/SSS13.16 The future of permafrost in a climate-changing world (co-organized) |
Convener: Marc Oliva | Co-Convener: Alevtina Evgrafova |
Mon, 24 Apr, 15:30–17:00
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SC90/SSS13.17 Reading soils from the Past (co-organized) |
Convener: Sjoerd Kluiving | Co-Convener: Ian Simpson |
Fri, 28 Apr, 13:30–15:00
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UMI0 ECS Plenary |
Convener: Hans Thybo |
Mon, 24 Apr, 12:15–13:15
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US0 ECS EGU Award Ceremony |
Conveners: Hans Thybo , Jonathan Bamber |
Orals
/ Wed, 26 Apr, 17:30–20:00
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US1/AS4.52/BG9.67/CL4.20/SSS0.4 Vegetation-climate interactions across time scales |
Convener: Gilles Ramstein | Co-Conveners: Wu-Kuang Soh , Hugo de Boer |
US2 Media Union symposium: ESA / NASA |
Conveners: Özgür Karatekin , Stephanie C. Werner |
Orals
/ Mon, 24 Apr, 13:30–17:45
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GDB2 Media Transition to Next Generation Cities and Planet Earth future |
Conveners: Daniel Schertzer , Cedo Maksimovic , Herman Russchenberg , Stefano Tinti |
Thu, 27 Apr, 15:30–17:00
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GDB3 Media Is 2 degrees possible without relying on carbon storage and capture? |
Conveners: Shaun Lovejoy , Oksana Tarasova , Thomas Blunier |
Fri, 28 Apr, 08:30–10:00
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GDB4 Media|ECS Is Open Science the way to go? |
Conveners: Claudia Jesus-Rydin , Susanne Buiter , Bárbara Ferreira |
Thu, 27 Apr, 15:30–17:00
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GDB5 Media Great Debate on Great Extinctions |
Convener: Nicholas T. Arndt | Co-Convener: Helmut Weissert |
Tue, 25 Apr, 15:30–17:00
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