In this meeting, which is open to all interested colleagues, we will inform you about our activities at EGU and also other major events in 2018 and 2019 that will deal with the topics of our subdivision. If you want to announce any upcoming meeting, please do so, too. We will also discuss, if we want to produce a Special Issue of the journal SOIL, including selected EGU contributions 2018 that are related to the topics of our subdivision.