Critical Zone Exploration Network

The European Soil Portal contributes to a thematic data infrastructure for soils in Europe. It presents data and information regarding soils at European level. It connects to activities within JRC concerning soil (JRC SOIL Action). It serves also as a vehicle to promote the activities of the European Soil Bureau Network. Spatial data collection and processing within this infrastructure is performed according to emerging ideas behind the INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe) initiative.

Lysimeter-Workshop 2008:

You can find the final program of the lysimeter-workshop "Lysimeters for Global Change Research: Biological Processes and the Environmental Fate of Pollutants" at the website
www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/lysimeter-workshop
If you like to contribute and have not registered yet, please register now!

Best regards

Dr. Sascha Reth

The Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) is a prominent international
educational society headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. Because of their common
interests, SSSA, the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), and the Crop Science
Society of America (CSSA) share a close working relationship as well as the same
headquarters office staff. Each of the three Societies is autonomous, has its
own bylaws, and is governed by its own Board of Directors. Society members are
dedicated to the conservation and wise use of natural resources to produce food,

THIS WEBSITE'S GOAL is to expand observations and synthesis of global soil
change by promoting long-term soil-ecosystem studies (LTSEs). THIS GLOBAL
INVENTORY OF LTSEs is real-time and growing! . to review an individual study's
metadata, click on "LTSE Name" (below). . to ask questions across-LTSEs, click
on "Export Inventory" on gray menu (left), and sort LTSEs in MSExcel by criteria
of interest to you (e.g. soil C, soil archive). We seek individual scientists,
managers, & students, but also institutions & the general public to help

With the great explosion in computation and information technology has come vast
amounts of data and tools in all field of endeavour. This has motivated numerous
initiatives around the world to build spatial data infrastructures aiming to
facilitate the collection, maintenance, dissemination and use of spatial
information. Soil science potentially contributes to the development of such
generic spatial data infrastructure through the ongoing creation of regional,
continental and worldwide soil databases, and which are now operational for some

The International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) is the global union of soil
scientists. The objectives of the IUSS are to foster all branches of the soil
sciences and their applications, and to give support to soil scientists in the
pursuit of their activities. This website provides information for IUSS members
and those interested in soil science.

Location(s)

The Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory (LCZO) will be located in Northeastern Puerto Rico in the USFS Luquillo Experimental Forest and at the USGS WEBB site. The multi-disciplinary team of geoscientists will address a set of specific hypotheses that are related to the following overarching questions:

How do critical zone processes and the flow and transformations of materialdiffer in landscapes with contrasting bedrock but similar climates, land use, and geologic histories?

What are the implications of these differences for the long term sustainability of water and soil resources?

The 2nd Workshop Lysimeters for Global Change Research: Biological Processes
and the Environmental Fate of Pollutants will be held at the Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health – campus in Neuherberg near Munich
(Germany) from April 23-25, 2008

Please consider submitting your work to an exciting interdisciplinary session at the International Soil Science Society of America, tri-society meeting in New Orleans 2007 (Nov 4-8):

Advancing Measurement Techniques and Modeling Synergy for Environmental Soils Research in Space and Time