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Division on Soil System Sciences

President: Heike Knicker (Emailsss@egu.eu)
Deputy President: Araceli Perez-Sanz (Email)
ECS Representative: Beatrice Giannetta (Emailecs-sss@egu.eu)

Soil is the interface between the crust and atmosphere, and is the basis of life on Earth.  The impact of soil science to the society has probably never been as high as it is currently. The importance of soils in the Earth system must make us, the soil scientists, more noticeable at the EGU. The aim of the Division on Soil System Sciences (SSS) is to coordinate the EGU scientific programme on soil science and related activities. The SSS contributes actively with EGU by promoting scientific interchange and dissemination of activity carried out by members.

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Aggregate from an Irish peat soil (Credit: Antonio Jordán, distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Aggregate from an Irish peat soil (Credit: Antonio Jordán, distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Latest news

Campfire meeting on 17 December 2025 at 11:00 CET
  • 12 December 2025

Dear all, 

We would like to invite you to attend an online cross-division Campfire meeting on 17 December 2025 at 11:00 CET organized by the EGU Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology, and Volcanology (GMPV) and Soil System Sciences (SSS) Divisions:

Mineralogy Meets Soil Science: Remediation, Weathering Processes and Interactions

Register to the Event here: https://www.egu.eu/webinars/687/gmpv-sss-campfire-mineralogy-meets-soil-science-remediation-weathering-processes-and-interactions/

Please feel free to share this link and registration.

We are happy to share that we will have four presentations during the campfire: 

Ewa Stępień, University of Krakow: Zeolites and apatites to immobilize As(V) from the soil systems Fluid-mineral mediated formation of mimetite Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl for efficient arsenate removal from water using Pb-modified zeolite.

Błażej Cieślik, University of Wrocław: Nickel pathways during ex situ mineral carbonation of serpentinized peridotites: Implications, advantages, and challenges. 

Xavier Dupla, ETH Zurich, Back to the future of Enhanced Rock Weathering: a little agronomic journey in time

Thiago Inagaki, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, C-Persistence Across Scales: Leveraging Organo-Mineral Associations and Management to Build Climate-Resilient Soils.

This event is organized by:

Bartosz Puizo, Mariane Boulanger 

Marcus Schiedung, Beatrice Giannetta and Diana Vieira  

Latest posts from the SSS blog

🌱 Nurturing the Next Generation of Soil Scientists: Meet the SSS EGU Early Career Scientists Team

Soil is more than just dirt beneath our feet, it’s a living, breathing system that sustains ecosystems, regulates climate, and supports agriculture. At the heart of advancing our understanding of these vital systems is a dynamic group of early career researchers working within the Soil System Sciences (SSS) Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). In this post, we’re excited to introduce the Early Career Scientists (ECS) team of the SSS Division, an inspiring group of PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, …

Recent awardees

Wulf Amelung

Wulf Amelung

  • 2025
  • Philippe Duchaufour Medal

The 2025 Philippe Duchaufour Medal is awarded to Wulf Amelung for pioneering research in uncovering the mechanisms of soil degradation and efforts to restore soil functions, thereby enabling sustainable agriculture and land use.


Katerina Georgiou

Katerina Georgiou

  • 2025
  • Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Katerina Georgiou for significant contributions to the understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of carbon cycling at a range of scales; from soil particle to field-scale, to global predictions.


Daniel Asiamah Aboagye

Daniel Asiamah Aboagye

  • 2025
  • Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award

The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Daniel Asiamah Aboagye Effect of Residue Application Methods and Long-Term No-Tillage Management on Residue Decomposition and Priming Effect in Japanese Andosol: Evidence from a Field Incubation Experiment


Kavindra Senaratna

Kavindra Senaratna

  • 2025
  • Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award

The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Kavindra Senaratna Characterizing Soil Respiration rates across different Land uses in a Tropical Urban Catchment


Martin-Georg Endress

Martin-Georg Endress

  • 2025
  • Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award

The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Martin-Georg Endress Exploring the energetics of soil microbial metabolism under substrate limitation


Jan Willem van Groenigen

Jan Willem van Groenigen

  • 2024
  • Philippe Duchaufour Medal

The 2024 Philippe Duchaufour Medal is awarded to Jan Willem van Groenigen for his outstanding work on the integration of agricultural management and environmental science as they relate to global change.


Hyunsoo Seo

Hyunsoo Seo

  • 2024
  • Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award

The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Hyunsoo Seo Implementing Spatial Mapping and Sequential Gaussian Simulation for Probabilistic Risk Modeling of Heavy Metals Contamination in Urban Soils


Lauren Porter

Lauren Porter

  • 2024
  • Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award

The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Lauren Porter Impacts of intensive wetting, stagnation and drying cycles on carbon pools and allocation within stormwater processing system substrates designed for multifunctionality


Lavanya Veerabhadrappa

Lavanya Veerabhadrappa

  • 2024
  • Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award

The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Lavanya Veerabhadrappa Comparison of Different Color Space Model's Performance for Estimation of Nitrate and Phosphate in Soil and Water Using a Developed Smartphone-Integrated Imaging Device


Daniel L. Evans

Daniel L. Evans

  • 2024
  • Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists

The 2024 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Daniel L. Evans for outstanding research in the field of exploration of urban soil ecosystem services.

Current issue of the EGU newsletter

In our December Issue we we are focusing on positive stories of surprises in science. Asmae Ourkiya shared how a prize established in 1900 to reward anyone making contact with alien life (expect Martians) ended up funding more than a century of astronomy research and innovation. Guest blogger Fernanda Matos described the discovery her autism had been driving her interest in Oceanography for years, in her blog on how we can better support people with disability in geoscience. And we highlight some surprises to avoid in our blog on the Austrian visa and Schengen system ahead of EGU26. Also catch up on all the upcoming dates for webinars and funding, including €10,000 to host a Geoscience Day event in your European country, and share your opinions on where EGU should be focusing strategically in the next 5 years in the EGU Members' Survey. 

All this and much more, in this month's Loupe!

Current issue of the SSS division newsletter

Dear Colleagues,

Welcome to the November newsletter of the EGU Soil System Sciences Division! This month, we invite you to consult the list of recipients of the EGU 2026 awards and medals, go back to Building soil monitoring into policy webinar, read a new SOIL paper, and learn more about the SSS division through our new SSS Blog post and the Linkedin and Bluesky pages. Moreover, we also have some reminders for the Webinar series on Emerging Technologies for Disaster Risk Reduction, the upcoming Agricultural Chemistry Winter School, the calls for the  EGU-sponsored Geoscience Day 2026 funding, and EGU GMPV-SSS Campfire.

Heike Knicker, Division President

Beatrice Giannetta & Sana Boubehziz, ECS Reps

The ECS Team

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