• 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  

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2023 SSS awards and medals

• 30 November 2022

On 30^th November 2022, the European Geosciences Union (EGU) has named the 47 recipients of next year’s Union Medals and Awards, Division Medals, and Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards (https://www.egu.eu/news/937/egu-announces-its-2023-awards-and-medals/). We wish to congratulate Andreas A. Richter (Philippe Duchaufour Medal 2023), Ravendra Naidu (Alina Kabata-Pendias Medal 2023) and Gina Garland (SSS OECS 2023), and thank all scientists nominated but not awarded. As usual, our Division received several great nominations (the work of the Medal and Award Committees was not easy at all!), and this mirrors the high scientific profile of our members.

2022 SSS Division Award Recipients

• 3 November 2021

On November 3rd 2021, the EGU named the 50 recipients of next year's Union Medals and Awards, Division Medals, and Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist (OECS) Awards (https://www.egu.eu/news/872/egu-announces-its-2022-awards-and-medals/).

We wish to congratulate Mary K. Firestone (Philippe Duchaufour Medal 2022) and Diana C.S. Vieira (SSS OECS 2022), and thank all scientists nominated but not awarded. Our Division received several great nominations (the work of the Medal and Award Committees was not easy at all!), and this mirrors the high scientific profile of our members.

A new medal for SSS!

• 1 October 2021

On October 21st, 2021, the EGU Council approved a second medal for our SSS division. This medal, proposed by the previous President Saskia Keesstra in 2018 and voted during the SSS division meeting in April 2021, will be available for nomination in 2022 and will be named after A. Kabata-Pendias.

• 28 January 2019

The EGU has issued an open letter to funding agencies and evaluation committees with information on the assessment of presentations given at its scientific meetings.

The letter details the three presentation types given at EGU General Assembly and states that the selection of the type of presentation is not based on any evaluation of the scientific value of the contribution. This letter emphasises that there is no distinction regarding the standing, quality or prestige of oral, poster, or PICO presentations.

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• 28 January 2019

Lily Pereg, Deputy President and Programme Group Chair of the EGU Soil System Sciences (SSS) Division and Executive Editor of the SOIL journal, died tragically and unexpectedly earlier this month during a trip to Argentina.

Pereg was a microbiologist with 25 years of research experience and an associate professor at the School of Science and Technology, University of New England in Armidale, Australia. An EGU member since 2013, Pereg was elected to serve as president of the EGU SSS Division in Autumn 2017, a role she was due to take on in April this year.

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SOIL journal: 3rd in the Soil Science category of CiteScore 2019

• 28 January 2019

CiteScore 2019 values are now available in Scopus. SOIL, our EGU Soil System Sciences (SSS) division open-access journal ranked 3/126 (98th percentile) in the category Soil Science !