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

What recently happened on Soil System Sciences?

EGU has named the 52 recipients of next year’s Union Medals and Awards, Division Medals, and Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards, based on their important contributions to the Earth, planetary and space sciences. They will be celebrated during EGU26, held from 3-8 May, 2026.

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Held on 12 November, ‘Building soil monitoring into policy’ is part of a webinar series from AI 4 Soil Health for policy makers, civil servants, farmers, research leaders, scientific experts, practitioners, private sector representatives working in the area, and all individuals interested in the topic. The webinars feature thought leaders in the field exploring the pressing issues of today and tomorrow around soil health. Available on YouTube, you can watch this webinar and all previous webinars in the series.

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Discover the article: “Improved management increases soil mineral-protected organic carbon storage via plant-microbial-nutrient mediation in semi-arid grasslands”. By Alejandro Carrascosa, Gerardo Moreno, M. Francesca Cotrufo, Cristina Frade, Sara Rodrigo, and Víctor Rolo. They revealed rotational grazing increased SOC, especially mineral-protected fraction, while exclusion reduced particulate organic carbon stocks. These outcomes were linked to changes in plant traits, soil microbes, and nutrients.

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In addition, you can now read interesting updates of the Soil System Sciences Division and related topics on LinkedIn and Bluesky pages.

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Upcoming Events and Deadlines

The Emerging Technologies for DRR initiative of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) seeks to improve efficiency of tools related to disaster and risk understanding and management by fostering collaboration between governments, technology providers, and partners from academia and civil society in a webinar series including ‘From potential to practice - Understanding the technology adoption gap’. Registrations are open for this online webinar scheduled on 4 December.

Contribute here

Explore the plant-soil-microbiome relationship in a climate change and anthropogenic interference scenario through the perspective of agricultural chemistry during the Agricultural Chemistry Winter School 2026 (ACWS2026). Organized by the Italian Society of Agricultural Chemistry (SICA) and the University of Bologna, ACWS2026 will be hosted at the DAMSlab Auditorium (University of Bologna) from 2-5 February 2026. To attend, submit your contributions by December 12.

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Applications for the EGU Geoscience Day 2026 is open until the end of 19 January 2026! EGU is inviting applications for a grant of up to €10,000 to host the sixth EGU Geoscience Day. These one-day flagship public events are run each year in a rotating European country to raise awareness of the Earth, planetary and space sciences to school students, the wider public, policymakers and journalists.

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Attend an online cross-division Campfire meeting organized by the EGU Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology, and Volcanology (GMPV) and Soil System Sciences (SSS) Divisions for early-career researchers and PhD students! On 17 December, Four interesting presentations and exchange times are planned with the idea to discuss heavy metals and organo-compounds as media of soil contamination and explore how minerals can be applied for remediation and stabilization.