Firstly, we hope that all of you, as well as your relatives, are staying healthy and safe at home. COVID-19 has spread around the planet, sending billions of people into lockdown. We are sure that we can overcome this crisis by supporting each other and making our best with our individual actions. As you have …[Read More]
Soil System Sciences
Early Career Scientist representative: how to become one in a few easy steps!
Early career scientist representatives are a crucial link between the EGU and the early career scientist community. They are vital in providing feedback from students and early career researchers so that we can take action to improve our early-career scientist’s activities at the EGU General Assembly and maintain our support for early-career scientists throughout the …[Read More]
The present and future of soil conservation in Europe
Soil is a fragile and finite natural resource that must be carefully managed and protected to ensure future food and fiber provision as well as delivery of many other ecosystem services such as water purification or flood regulation [1]. Soil health and preservation at global scales has been receiving increasing attention, for example, in discussions …[Read More]
2017 SSS Best Flyer Award rules for cool conveners
You have proposed a session for EGU2017. Now you have to announce it, spread it, spread it … The best thing you can do is design a flyer. A flyer helps to send the information and that the interested people receive and understand it quickly. For several years, the SSS has organized the flyers contest, …[Read More]
How to manage your EGU2017 session? Brief guidelines for fearless SSS conveners
So you are convening a session in the EGU2017 Soil System Sciences programme? Then, you should click the image below. If clicking the image doesn’t work or you have problems with the presentation (works best under Chrome), access it directly at: https://goo.gl/bZhmNp or download the guidelines as a PDF file (click here).
Solid Earth, an open-access journal
Fabrizio Storti Chief Executive Editor of Solid Earth Università degli Studi di Parma The importance of publishing open access is increasing every year in Scientific Institutions worldwide and is becoming mandatory in several research funding programmes. Many funding institutions, including ERC, are financially supporting publishing in open access journals. EGU and Copernicus launched open access …[Read More]
(Sicilian farmers look) Back to the future
Sicilian farmers are returning to cultivate ancient seed. This is to recover the ancient wisdom that feed the island and Italy since ancient times. Giuseppe Li Rosi is a local farmer and one of the strongest supporters of the return to traditional agriculture. He has converted a property of 100 hectares to traditional farming and …[Read More]
TOP-30 papers in the TOP-10 journals of the SOIL SCIENCES category (and X): JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS
Interested in the most relevant soil articles of 2015? In this short series of posts I’ve compiled a list of the 30 most cited articles of the top ten journals in the category of SOIL SCIENCES. Today, the last post of the series is published: JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS.
TOP-30 papers in the TOP-10 journals of the SOIL SCIENCES category (IX): CATENA
Interested in the most relevant soil articles of 2015? In this short series of posts I’ve compiled a list of the 30 most cited articles of the top ten journals in the category of SOIL SCIENCES. Today: CATENA.
TOP-30 papers in the TOP-10 journals of the SOIL SCIENCES category (VIII): APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY
Interested in the most relevant soil articles of 2015? In this short series of posts I’ve compiled a list of the 30 most cited articles of the top ten journals in the category of SOIL SCIENCES. Today: APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY.