Topic sessions :

1.      Soil genesis and classification

2.      Chemical and biological processes in the soil environment

3.      Transformations of soil organic matter and their effects on the environment

4.      Procesy fizyczne i fizykochemiczne w glebach

5.      Soil degradation, reclamation and soil protection   

6.      Rational use of soil resources          

 

Invited speakers:

- Rainer Horn (President IUSS, Germany): “Research Innovations in Soil Physics”

- Georges Stoops (Belgium): „Micromorfological features and soil genesis”

- Teddy Miano (Past President IHSS, Włochy): " Records of past human activity

 and environmental changes in peat"

- Grant Ferris (President ISEB, Canada): “Biogeochemical and hydrogeological

 aspects of bacterial-mineral interactions in soils”

-  Artemi Cerda (President EGU SSS, Spain): "Soil degradation and erosion

  in Mediterranean ecosystems caused by forest fires and agriculture practices"

- Ahmed R. Mermut (President ECSSS, Turkey): "Components transfer among

 ecosystems"  or  “World soil resources and their potentials for food security”

- Sergey Goryachkin (Russia): "Processes in extreme soils of recent and ancient

 epochs - new challenge for soil science of XXI century".