Division on Soil System Sciences (SSS)
President: | Artemi Cerdà | |
Vice-President: | - | |
Past-President: | Teodoro M. Miano |
News
EGU 2012
Dear Convener,
This message is to inform you about the progress of the organization of the EGU General Assembly for 2012.
The Soil System Sciences Division thanks you for your contribution and effort to make the soil system more visible at the EGU and the Geosciences.
As convener, you are a key person for the organization of the European Geoscience Union General Assembly in Vienna next year. Your contribution as convener will make more attractive and scientifically sound the work of the SSS Division at the EGU.
The Congress will take place from April 22nd to the 27th 2012. The night of Friday 27th you are invited by the EGU to a dinner at the congress center. This dinner acknowledge the work done by you and also give you an opportunity to networking with other geoscientist in a relaxing atmosphere.
I hope that you will have the chance to arrange your traveling in order to attend the whole meeting and also to join us in this dinner.
Following are some advises to help you to organize your session successfully. This is based on my own experience, and any idea is welcome. Some of you have many years of experience organizing international scientific sessions, but some other no. Then, some guidelines are helpful.
Please pay attention to the deadlines.
From now to January 17th 2012 the authors can upload abstracts. Later, and during a couple of days you, as convener, you will be allowed to upload the abstracts submitted to you.
By my experience the very best to avoid the withdrawn of the session or to have a short number of abstracts is to inform the authors soon. You can inform then how to upload their abstracts. However, some colleagues are not familiar with the electronic system, and always is helpful to have a friendly convener to help. If you have some questions or you find some troubles with the electronic system, please, contact me and I will find the solution.
Those authors –yourself too- that need some financial support should upload abstracts and click on the right button/box during the uploading. I highly encourage you to inform your potential participants that from now until December 15th 2011 they can upload abstracts and that they can ask during the uploading for some financial support. Only few of the candidates get the fellowship, but it is worth to apply for, as there is no other effort than submit the abstract before December 15th and to click in a button/box.
I recommend that you will upload your abstracts soon (as earlier possible) to check how the system works. Then, when the colleagues will ask to solve a problem you can have a reply. Moreover, if you will find a problem during the abstract uploading we can manage better to solve this problem now that there is no rush. Last year 15000 abstract were uploaded.
We expect that each session should have more than 20 abstracts to get an oral block of 1:30 hours (use to be 6 oral talks of 15 minutes). This is why you should try to disseminate your session within the scientific community as soon as possible and reach a reasonable number of abstracts. Please, remember that usually, 2/3 of the abstracts will be shown as posters.
In order to inform efficiently the colleagues of your session the very best is to disseminate the abstract and the link of the session within the scientific networks you use to work with. My previous experience says that the very best is to develop a flyer. See a flyer I am working for one of my session on "Milestones in Soil Science Research". This is only a tentative flyer should be improved with more information in the next days once we will update the content of our link.
Soon, you will have access to your session in order to update the information (conveners, abstract….). There, you can announce the solicited speakers you invited to talk in your session, if you are planning to publish an special issue, or if you have any social event within your session. Feel free to innovate and make your session more attractive.
You can see the session proposal if you click here http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/sessionprogramme/SSS
Today should be refreshed the EGU system and after today the abstract uploading will start.
I wish all of you a great success.
Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any suggestion, any comment or any doubt.
Sincerely,
Artemi Cerdà
President of the Soil System Sciences Division, European Geoscience Union
Letter of Artemi Cerdà to the EGU members
Dear colleague,
Dear Scientist,
I was elected President of the Soil Systems Sciences Division in 2010 and I will coordinate this Division for the biennium 2011-2013. This will be a great challenge for me and I wish to share with you this opportunity to make the soil science more visible at the EGU. Soils are the key system of the Earth functioning and also the food and fiber supply for the humankind. The importance of soils in the Earth System must make us, the soil scientists, more noticeable at the European Geosciences Union.
I would like to invite you to collaborate and work for the SSS Division as much as possible. We believe that the SSS Division can growth in quantity and quality as did in previous years with Teodoro Miano as leader of the group.
This is because the hard work done by officers and conveners, and because the soil issue is a growing topic. This is also related to the fact that the Soil System Sciences Division has a broad view of the soil in the Earth System. This is a good scientific niche to develop new ideas and make science better.
In 2012 the European Geosciences Union General Assembly will take place another time in Vienna (April 22nd to 27th 2012) and then there will be a reorganization of the Committees upon the success of the sessions convened and the new topics developed. We wish to have a very active and efficient group of officers that will contribute to a better EGU meetings and a better science.
Please, contact me (artemio.cerda@uv.es) if you have any comment or suggestion. We are right now discussing the SSS sessions for next year and I would like to encourage you to develop new and interesting sessions
Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any question.
Sincerely,
Artemi Cerdà
President of the Soil System Sciences Division, European Geosciences Union
Artemi Cerdà elected Soil System Science Division President
Many congratulations to Artemi Cerdà for being elected SSS Division President for the biennium April 2011 - April 2013.
Dr Cerdà holds a chair in Physical Geography at the University of Valencia. Artemi is researching on soil erosion and degradation processes in Mediterranean Environments since 1989 and most of his work was developed on the impact of agriculture, forest fires and road embankments on soil hydrology, soil degradation and soil erosion. Professor Cerdà has established a network of research collaborator in Europe, USA, China, Australia and Israel. And he has been the coordinator of the FUEGORED network of Spanish researchers, vice-president of the Soil System Sciences Division of the EGU since 2007. Artemi is known by being the convener that organized the most attended sessions at the SSS Division during the last eight years. Artemi is working hard now to organize the EGU Soil System Science Division sessions for 2012. Please contact him at artemio.cerda@uv.es if you need any help to organize your session.
Congratulations to Stefan Helmut Doerr, Philippe Duchaufour Medalist 2011
On April 6th 2011, during an unforgettable ceremony, Stefan Helmut Doerr was awarded with a the Duchaufour Medal. His talk and the presentation done by David Dunkerley, Teodoro Miano and Jorge Mataix Solera highlighted the importance of young scientist and to make science an enjoyable task.
The Philippe Duchaufour Medal is awarded to Stefan Doerr for his internationally recognized achievements in the field of soil science, with special emphasis on his contributions to soil hydrology and erosion, particularly through his research into soil water repellency.
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Division Outstanding Young Scientists Award 2011
João Pedro Nunes is a Young Portuguese scientist had is working on soil erosion 
and soil hydrology since the 90st. During the Division meeting at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011 the President of the Soil System Science Division, Teodoro Miano, and the elected president Artemi Cerdà gave the award to Dr Nunes.
João Pedro Nunes is a post-doctoral researcher in the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. His research has focused on the relations between climate, vegetation cover and soil erosion in Mediterranean landscapes, and how they could be affected by global climate change. He is currently studying the disturbances caused by forest fires on vegetation and soils, and their impact on runoff and erosion processes.
EGU Outstanding student poster (OSP) award
"Soil fauna activity and soil porosity: characterization by micromorphological image analysis"
Laura Gargiulo is a PhD student supervised by Prof. F. Terribile at the department of Soil, Plant, Environmental and Animal Production Sciences at University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy. Most of her work is done under the guidance of Dr. G. Mele at National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISAFOM). Her research focuses on soil structure formation processes studied using 2D and 3D soil image analysis. Her main interest is to investigate the relationship between soil structure and soil biology. The EGU poster 2010 presents results of a methodological work on the use of image analysis to identify and quantify the contribution of different biological activities to the soil pore system.
The 4th International Congress of ECSSS (EUROSOIL 2012)
"Soil Science for the Benefit of Mankind and Environment"
Bari, Italy, 02-06 July, 2012