NEWS

"XVI INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ISCO (International Soil Conservation Organization)"
Santiago de Chile - 8 to 12 November 2010

The Chilean Society of Soil Science and the Ministry of Agriculture of Chile are pleased to invite the national and international scientific community and especially the scholars of the soil, water, agronomy, forestry and environmental sciences sectors to be part of 16th International Congress of ISCO.

Our motto: "Soil and Water Conservation for Food Security"

DEADLINE for Receipt of Works: 12 March 2010
Standards and Forms of Papers Delivery: please confirm here: www.iscochile2010.cl

Further ISCO Congress details

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

"Hydrological, hydraulic and mechanical effects of plants for slope stability"
EGU General Assembly 2010 - Vienna

As announced, the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010 will be held in Vienna, Austria, 02-07 May.

In view of the congress, we would like to draw your attention to session NH3.10 - an integrated part of the section Natural Hazards - entitled:
Hydrological, hydraulic and mechanical effects of plants for slope stability

Related to this session, we want to encourage you submitting an abstract as you or one of your students, might have interesting (scientific) results and information worthwhile to be presented at this conference. Please, find below further information of the session.
DEADLINE for Receipt of Abstracts: 18 January 2010

EGU 2010 sessions programme

AWARD TO YOUNG SCIENTISTS: The “Jan De Ploey Prize 2010”

In 1993 the Jan De Ploey Prize was established to further research in the field of process geomorphology.
This international prize is awarded regularly by the geography section of K.U.Leuven to a young scientist (under the age of 35 years) who has made a significant contribution to research in the field of geomorphological processes. Previous prize winners were Dr. R. Allison (University of Durham, U.K.), Dr.Y. Le Bissonnais (INRA, Orleans, France), Dr. Stuart Lane (University of Leeds, U.K.), Dr. Arjun Heimsath (Dartmouth College, Hannover, NH, USA) and Dr. Oliver Korup (ETH, Davos, Switzerland). This Prize will be awarded for the sixth time in 2010.

The prize winner is expected to deliver a memorial lecture at the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, K.U.Leuven, Belgium. The prize will pay the expenses of the visit to Leuven and the residual sum may be sued to support attendance at an appropriate international conference.
Nominations should consist of a brief statement and any supporting materials (C.V., list of publications), including a copy of one significant publication.

Please send your nominations (digital copy) before 31 January, 2010 to the Jan De Ploey Prize Selection Committee, c.o. Prof. Jean Poesen, Physical and Regional Geography Research Group, K.U.Leuven, GEO-INSTITUTE, Bus 2409, Celestijnenlaan 200E, B-3001 Heverlee (Leuven), Belgium; E-mail:jean.poesen@ees.kuleuven.be

I would like to invite you to visit a website that I have made with the title "Soil conservation in Europe".

ESSC statement in support of the EU Soil Framework Directive

DOC     OpenDocument

"EUROPEAN DESERTIFICATION INDICATORS"

PDF (250 kB)

"Open Letter from J. L. Rubio - The long and winding road"

DOC(36 KB)

"DECLARATION FOR A EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR RESEARCH ON DESERTIFICATION"

DOC(35 KB)

ANNOUNCEMENT

"DIRECTORY OF EUROPEAN ORGANISATIONS AND PERSONS WORKING ON SOIL PROTECTION"

More information here

ESSC Elections, Palermo

 Important documents     Palermo Statement Version 21