Eurosoil 2020
August 24-18 2020
Connecting people and soil
Eurosoil 2020 objective is to bring together leading research scientists working on soil related topics and stakeholders dealing with issues of public concern such as soil degradation and consequences of climatic changes. The important bridging role of soil practitioners to translate scientific knowledge into practice will be emphasized.
Deadline for submitting sessions is 01 March 2019
Click here to submit a scientific session and to find out more.
XVIII International Colloquium on Soil Zoology and XV International Colloquium on Apterygota
Bozen / Bolzano, Italy
ICA2020: 20-22 August 2020
ICSZ2020: 23-28 August 2020
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Date:
Thursday, August 20, 2020 - Friday, August 28, 2020
18th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology
The 18th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME18) will be 21-26 August 2022 in Cape Town, South Africa. Registration will begin January 2022. Registration fees paid for ISME18 that was postponed due to COVID-19 can be carried forward to the 2022 conference.
Please visit their website for more details.
5th Soil Health Annual Meeting
Soil Health Institute Announces Virtual Annual Meeting
The Soil Health Institute (SHI) today announced its 5th Annual Meeting will go virtual.
As previously announced, the annual meeting will be July 30-31. An agenda and more information on how to register will be available in early May.
For more information, please visit the website or contact info@soilhealthinstitute.org
Soil Health Institute 5th Annual Meeting
The Soil Health Institute (SHI) cordially invites soil science graduate students, research scientists and others to participate in a virtual Video Poster Session during SHI’s 5th Annual Meeting, July 30-31, 2020. Video poster submissions must be no longer than three minutes, self-contained, self-explanatory, and relevant to soil health.
For consideration, video posters must be submitted no later than 5:30 p.m. Pacific Time, Tuesday, June 23, 2020.
Video poster authors must register to attend the conference.
The Video Poster Session will be limited to 80 video posters.
Video poster submissions must be accompanied by a signed Video Poster Session Author Authorization and Release Agreement.
Each video poster will be reviewed to ensure the video includes a research description that is relevant to soil health and is sufficiently transparent, detailed, and scientifically rigorous.
If the video poster is accepted, the presenter will have an opportunity to discuss the research with interested individuals from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Eastern Time, Friday, July 31.
Visit the Video Poster Session webpage for a full listing of submission guidelines and presentation requirements.
This year’s Annual Meeting theme is Soil Health: The Foundation for Regenerative Agriculture, advancing the opportunity we have to address climate change, water quality, food production, biodiversity, and many other pressing issues by improving soil health. Visit the conference webpage for more information. For questions about the video poster session, video preparation or submission, contact us at info@soilhealthinstitute.org with the subject line “SHI2020 Video Poster Session”.
Soil and Water Conservation Society 75th International Annual Conference
The Soil and Water Conservation Society announces its 75th Internation Annual Conference to be held virtually on July 27-29, 2020. The conference announcement is available here.
The agenda and registration will be released in the coming weeks.
They have decided to host a virtual event that will allow for broad participation and ensure the health and safety of attendees.
Reasons to be excited about the conference:
An easy to use, familiar platform. If you are successfully taking part in virtual meetings at this time you will be able participate in this event.
A reduced registration fee of $75 for members (in honor of our 75th year!) and $99 for nonmembers. Also, there will be savings on travel and lodging. Your support allows for us to hold the event and supports SWCS.
Live general session and breakout presentations with the ability to ask and rank questions.
A virtual exhibit hall.
Galleries featuring posters, virtual conservation and history tours, updates from SWCS, interviews with notable individuals, award winners and more!Virtual networking and social opportunities.
Games and contests with prizes.A resource library with exclusive access.
The same great content, available to you right from your home or office desk.
A potential for greater reach. With the ability for people to tune in from their home or office there is an expanded opportunity for participation. Presentations will be recorded and accessible to presenters and attendees after the event.
Please visit www.swcs.org/20AC for updates.
North American Congress for Conservation Biology
The North American Congress for Conservation Biology (NACCB) will take place July 26 to 31, 2020 in Denver, Colorado. On behalf of conference hosts, Denver Botanic Gardens, we look forward to hosting you!
Important NACCB 2020 Dates
Call for Proposals – Symposia, Short Courses, Workshops, and Interactive Sessions has now closed – see details here
Call for Abstracts: Speed, Oral and Poster Presentation abstract submissions are now being accepted through January 21, 2020 – more details here
February 2020: Registration opens
Spring 2020: Student & Chapter Travel Awards
More to Come!
Join us July 26 – 31, 2020 at the Sheraton Downtown Hotel in Denver, Colorado for the 5th biennial NACCB!
Visit their website for more information.
GEO BON Open Science Conference & All Hands Meeting 2020: Biodiversity monitoring for post 2020
The GEO BON Open Science Conference & All Hands Meeting is scheduled for July 6-10, 2020 in Leipzig, Germany. They are currently planning to hold the meeting in person, though they are monitoring the COVID-19 situation closely and may make the decision to hold a remote conference. Specific details about the conference can be found on the conference website. The deadline for abstract submissions is April 30, and registration opens in May.
3MUGIS Summer School: Anthropogenic and Natural Soil landscapes in European Russia: From Sea to Sea
What is 3MUGIS?
The 3MUGIS summer school is an annual event, which addresses relevant contemporary environmental consequences and opportunities of urbanization with special emphasis on soil
functions. The 3MUGIS summer school provides students with first hand field experience examining anthropogenic impact sequences across conventional soil forming factors from Sub-artic to Subtropics climates.
3MUGIS-2020 in Brief
5 days of intensive lectures, seminars and practical exercises in RUDN University in Moscow
16-days field tour from Teriberka (69N; 35E) to Abrau-Durso (44N; 37E)
6 bioclimatic zones from Tundra to Subtropics
4 natural reserves
Teriberka - a village on the shore of the Arctic Ocean
Typical Chernozems – the most fertile soils in the world
Kursk Magnetic Anomaly – the largest world ore mining area
Starocherkask – a historical area of kozak’s culture
Advance techniques of on-site express monitoring (XRF, IRGA, EC)
Hiking, banya and local food
Conditions
3MUGIS-2020 summer school will host international groups up to 35 participants. 3MUGIS-2020 participants will receive 3 ECTS, recognized by educational programs worldwide. Participation fees will cover accommodation, two meals per day, travelling inside Russia and all materials necessary for courses. The participation fee is anticipated to be 1,800 euro. All of the foreign participants will also receive visa support and any other assistance with organization of their trip to Moscow.
Contacts
Dr. Viacheslav Vasenev (RUDN University)
Dr. Elvira Dovletyarova (RUDN University)
Dr. Anastasia Konstantinova (RUDN University)
Dr. Anna Paltseva (NYC Urban Soils Institute)
Registration
To register click here.
45th New Phytologist Symposium: Plant–fungal invasions
Please not that this symposium has been postponed due to COVID-19. The new dates have not yet been set but will be announced as soon as possible. Note that the dates below for travel grants and abstract submissions may be incorrect in light of this.
The 45th New Phytologist Symposium will be held in Campinas, Brazil.
The symposium will explore how human activities increasingly alter plant and soil fungal communities and the consequences of these changes.
The symposium will take place over four days at the University of Campinas, Brazil, and include sessions organised by broad research topics. There will be dedicated time for discussions, poster sessions, selected poster talks and a field trip.
Travel grants are due Thursday 19 March 2020.
Abstract submission must be in by Thursday 16 April 2020.
Contact np-sympisa@lancaster.ac.uk for questions about the symposium.
The Microbiome Center Consortium: Meeting of Directors
The Microbiome Center Consortium 2020 Meeting will be held 16-17 June 2020 at the University of Chicago.
If you have a leadership position at a microbiome center in the US, we ask that you join us. We will address a network structure for existing microbiome centers and discuss key objectives for microbiome centers in the US.
Visit their website to learn more.
2020 Soil Biology Lab Skills Course
The 2020 Soil Biology Lab Skills Course will be held 15-19 June 2020.
Soils deliver a range of soil functions; primary productivity, nutrient cycling, a habitat for biodiversity, water regulation and purification and the breakdown of soil organic matter, which can contribute to climate regulation. Soil biota play an important role in regulating and controlling many of the processes which support these five soil functions. Therefore we need to know which biological methods to apply, to be able to understand the role of soil biodiversity in soil functions. It is also important to know how these biological measures relate to the varying chemical and physical conditions found in soils and the effect of management and climate.
In this 5 day course, students will be provided a mixture of interactive lectures and practical sessions each day addressing these topics. All methods described in the course will be made available to participants as well as advice on how to analyse the data.
For more information visit this website or email Paolo Di Lonardo.
Deadline for registration: 27 February 2020
Ecological Forecasting Initiative 2020: Coordinating the NEON-enabled forecasting challenge
Host: NSF-sponsored EFI-Research Coordination Network and NEON.
Dates: May 12-13, 2020
Registration for the Virtual Meeting is now open through May 1
Location: Due to COVID-19 the workshop will now be held virtually
There will be a Graduate Student Virtual Workshop on May 11.
Details and registration are here.
We are excited to announce the first annual meeting of the Ecological Forecasting Initiative Research Coordination Network (EFI-RCN), an NSF-sponsored 5-year project. The overarching goal of the EFI-RCN is to grow and diversify the community of practice engaged in near-term iterative ecological forecasting, with a special focus on creating forecasts with data from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).
This meeting is in lieu of a previously scheduled in-person meeting at NEON headquarters in Boulder, CO. We are excited that the move to a virtual workshop removes space constraints and allows us to open up the workshop to all who are interested in participating.
The workshop format will be a mix of talks and breakout sessions focused on forecasting with NEON data, engaging partners in NEON enabled forecasts, and designing a forecasting challenge using NEON data. It will be an interactive meeting and all workshop participants should be willing to engage and participate in breakout discussions and Slack conversations.
We will meet virtually on Zoom from 11am-5:30pm Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4) on Tuesday, May 12 and 11am-3:30pm Eastern Daylight Time on Wednesday, May 13. You can register for the virtual workshop here.
There are no registration fees. If you have already applied for the invitation to the in-person meeting, please re-register to confirm your participation in the virtual workshop.
Accessibility: The pre-recorded workshop presentations will have closed captioning. We are working to get captioners for the in-person and breakout portions of the workshop. If you anticipate needing closed captioning during the live-portions of the workshop, please contact us at eco4cast.initiative@gmail.com.
The talks and panel discussions will focus on the supply side of forecasting (i.e., data products), the demand side of forecasting (partners for forecasts), and lessons learned from other forecasting challenges. This workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to work together to design a forecasting challenge, similar in format to a data science competition, that stimulates ecological forecasting using NEON data products to enable intercomparison and synthesis. The workshop will focus on developing NEON forecasts for terrestrial carbon dynamics (e.g., flux tower and inventory data), water quality (e.g., temperature, dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll), and ecological populations/communities (e.g., ticks, mosquitoes, birds, community structure).
The workshop objectives are to:
Identify specific NEON data products to be used in the forecasting challenge.
Present and discuss standards for archiving ecological forecasts for submission to the challenge.
Develop a road map for a NEON forecasting challenge (evaluation, rules, etc.)
Identify cyberinfrastructure, training, and software training opportunities to empower participation in the challenge.
Identify partnerships with stakeholders and forecast end-users that can leverage NEON-enabled forecasting for decision support.
This is a great opportunity to engage with the Ecological Forecasting Initiative without needing to travel to a meeting and we look forward to using this virtual opportunity to grow the community of ecological forecasting!
We envision the key products from the meeting will include manuscripts describing the “rules” of the forecasting challenge, including a description of the community standards, and a roadmap for forecasting using NEON data.
EFI-RCN is a part of the grassroots Ecological Forecasting Initiative. While this May 2020 meeting is focused on accomplishing the RCN’s NEON-focused objectives, we envision EFI having a much larger, all-hands conference in summer 2021. If you have questions, please contact eco4cast.initiative@gmail.com.
World Biodiversity Forum
From the forum website:
The Forum will provide a platform for exchange, covering a wide range of perspectives, and capturing a diversity of visions. With this, it aims to redefine and set the agenda for biodiversity as a focal point over the next 10 years in current themes and topics across sectors.
In this, the Forum supports the “New Deal for Nature” to be forged by the Convention on Biological Diversity at the end of 2020. It is aligned with Sustainable Development Goals and achievement of which will require the involvement of all sectors/societal actors, societal consensus and collective search for solutions to conserve biodiversity.
The Forum will also feature a session on soil biodiversity organized by Helen Philips and Lea Beaumelle
57th Annual Aleberta Soil Science Workshop
The 2020 Alberta Soil Science Workshop will be held in Lethbridge Alberta, February 19-20, 2020 at the Coast Hotel.
Registration is not yet open. Please stay tuned for an update regarding open registration.
Call for Papers:
We are inviting title and abstract submissions for the following technical sessions: (1) Theme: Life in Soil, (2) Land Reclamation, (3) Land Use and Rangelands, (4) Soil Fertility, (5) Forest, Wetland and Riparian Soils and; (6) Volunteer. To submit a title, download the template, fill it out and email to: soilsworkshop@gmail.com by January 15th, 2020.
The 2019 ASSW Workshop Committee:
Past Chair: Janna Casson
Chair: Monika Gorzelak
Secretary: Carlos Romero
Sponsorship: Symon Mezbahuddi
Treasurer: Len Kryzanowski
Technical Session Chairs:
Monika Gorzelak: Theme Session: Life in Soil
Len Kryzanowski: Soil Fertility
Bin Xu: Wetland Soils and Riparian Areas
Karen Raven: Land Use
Deo Heeraman: Land Reclamation
Konstantin Dlusskiy: Volunteer Session
Commercial displays and sponsorships are welcomed. Please contact Symon Mezbahuddi for more information at symon.mezbahuddin@gov.ab.ca.
Soil and the SDGs: challenges and need for action
DG Environment is pleased to invite you to the conference ‘Soil and the SDGs: challenges and need for action’. This event will take place on 25 November 2019 in Brussels.
The conference targets policy-makers, researchers, representatives of NGOs and other stakeholders active in the protection of land and soil. It will provide an opportunity to discuss the challenges of soil and land degradation in the EU and the urgent need for action to implement the Sustainable Development Goals. Speakers will include high-level representatives of EU institutions, the European Environment Agency, the scientific community and the UNCCD.
The conference is free of charge but registration is mandatory. Costs related to participation in the event will not be reimbursed. For more details about the conference and to register please visit the website www.soil-conference.org.
For more information, please contact us via soilconference@milieu.be. Feel free to distribute this invitation to your network and apologies if you received this message multiple times through different channels.
Entomological Society of America 2019 Meeting
Stay tuned for more details — Click here to see the meeting website.
St. Louis Missouri, USA.
17-20 November 2019
Symposium: Above- and belowground Biodiversity for Sustainable Ecosystems
Biodiversity loss has become a global concern as increasing evidence highlights the importance of diverse species interactions as the main drivers of the ecosystem services on which society depends. This symposium focuses on the importance of above and below-ground biodiversity for ecosystem functioning, multi-functionality and sustainability. Various talks will highlight the importance of biodiversity for agro-ecosystem functioning as this symposium is linked to the Biodiversa research project “Agricultural Diversification: Digging Deeper” investigating the importance of agricultural crop diversification. We are now accepting abstract submissions for both oral and poster presentations. The abstracts should address the role of plant, animal, and/or microbial biodiversity on ecosystem functioning in terrestrial ecosystems including agro-ecosystems. Themes covered include soil biodiversity, above-ground and below-ground biodiversity, nutrient cycling, ecosystem multi-functionality, climate change, carbon sequestration and agricultural sustainability.
Please register online at:
https://www.agroscope.admin.ch/agroscope/en/home/news/events.html
Invacost Workshop
From Biodiversity Dynamics:
In the framework of the newly created AXA Research Fund Chair of Invasion Biology, at the University of Paris Saclay, we are excited to announce the creation of a workshop on the economic costs of biological invasions.
This workshop will have an unusual setting. It will be held in the context of the finalization of InvaCost, the first global, comprehensive database on published economic costs of biological invasions. Invacost has taken years to design, develop and complete. It includes thousands of costs from hundreds of published materials and has been recorded keeping information on many variables, from country and species concerned, to type of costs and sector of activity. We are in the process of publishing the global, overall result of this compilation, but have enough data for plenty more papers. The primary objective of this workshop is to produce more papers out of this database, and we would like to give the community an opportunity to join us in doing so.
This three-day workshop will be devoted to working on different studies, most of which we hope to define beforehand; these will be of two categories. The first type will be original work focused on important, novel questions on the economic costs of invasions, such as how to best implement multi-dimensional extrapolation of costs from data that are very fragmented. Several such studies are programmed. The second type of papers will be more descriptive, and focused on providing complete analyses on one type of category of costs of invasions. It could be about the total cost of invasions in the USA, or any other region; about the cost of invasions in tourism, or any other activity sector; the costs of invasions in marine ecosystems, or any other ecosystem; the costs of invasive trees, invasive fish, or any other taxonomic group. It could be any other descriptive analyses of a given dimension of biological invasions, provided the data is available in Invacost. For an example of the type of papers this descriptive category could take, please see our publication on the economic costs of invasive insects, here. This secondary type of study should be fairly straightforward to implement and produce.
We would like to prioritize invitation of early career researchers for this workshop and the associated papers. Ideally, we will invite PhD Students, Postdocs or recent PIs that have started specializing on one aspect, and entrust them with the associated paper design, analyses and writing up, in collaboration with our group. Because we can’t host everybody, we will base our selection of candidates on both the question asked and the proposal to tackle it (probably also on perceived motivation and skills).
We are in the process of assessing the costs of the workshop and determining a participatory fee, as we will probably not be able to cover everything for everyone, but we will strive to cover the costs of Early Career Researchers who can’t afford to join us on their own grants.
The workshop will be held in November 2019, most probably during the week of the 11th-15th, near Paris. We will be isolated three full days, from Tuesday afternoon to Friday noon, devoting all time on analyses, discussion and writing. We will arrive on Tuesday morning and leave on Friday after lunch. Meals and accommodation will be provided in the same centre.
Click here to learn more.