A key element of the European Commission’s EU Soil Observatory (EUSO) is an open, inclusive and dynamic engagement among stakeholders.
To facilitate this interaction, we organized the first ever EUSO Stakeholder Forum, during which the first Young Soil Researchers Forum was arranged,. It was a 2.5 hours meeting with 4 parallel sessions targeting specific themes with a number of presentations. The planned sessions and presentations can be consulted in the EUSO Stakeholder Forum agenda.
The 4 session themes were:
- Soil erosion
- Soil organic carbon
- Soil biodiversity
- Soil monitoring and contamination
The call was open to PhD students or people who finished their PhD no longer than 3 years ago, from all over the world, with a special focus on soil research carried out in Europe.
Young Soil Researchers Forum - Presentations
Below are the presentations by the authors who gave their explicit consent to have their presentation on-line on Commission servers.
Soil erosion
- 1. Francis Matthews, JRC, KU Leuven; Dynamic modelling of soil erosion and sediment delivery in Europe - Iddawnlowdja001-presentation-by-francis.pdfEnglish
- 2. Anita Bernatek-Jakiel, Jagiellonian University, Kraków; Susceptibility of soils to piping erosion in Europe- Iddawnlowdja002-presentation-by-anita.pdfEnglish
- 3. Simon Scheper Natural Hazards, Vienna; Risk Assessment vs Wind Erosion Modelling- Iddawnlowdja003-presentation-by-simon.pdfEnglish
- 4. Sema Kaplan, Erciyes University; Assessing the Performance of Wind Erosion Prediction Models (RWEQ & SWEEP)
- 5. Lena Katharina, Öttl University of Augsburg; Tillage erosion as a driver of in-field biomass patterns and soil organic carbon dynamics
- 6. Osumgborogwu Ikenna, Durham University; A multi-method approach to analyze changes in gully characteristics
- 7. Pinar Melis, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry; Upscaling cover management factor for different land use types in semi-arid agro-ecosystems- Iddawnlowdja007-presentation-by-pinar.pdfEnglish
- 8. Filippo Milazzo, University of Córdoba; The resilience of soil erosion rate under LUC and the role of the Mediterranean grassland- Iddawnlowdja008-presentation-by-filippo.pdfEnglish
- 9. Tobias Koch, Agricultural Landscape (ZALF); Calibration of soil erosion models for permanent bioenergy crops
- 10. Konstantinos Kaffas, University of Bozen-Bolzano; Event-based soil erosion and sediment yield modeling for modelling reservoir sedimentation in the Alps- Iddawnlowdja010-presentation-by-konstantinos.pdfEnglish
- 11. Somil Swarnkar, Indian Institute of Technology; Quantifying hydrogeomorphic and climatic controls on sediment dynamics in large Himalayan basins- Iddawnlowdja011-presentation-by-somil.pdfEnglish
- 12. Simoni Alexiou, Agricultural University of Athens; Assessing soil erosion and sedimentation through high accuracy tLiDAR and UAV-Photogrammetry technique- Iddawnlowdja012-presentation-by-simoni.pdfEnglish
- 13. Sophia Bahddou, Cranfield University; Effect of random and oriented soil surface roughness on water infiltration, runoff and soil loss
- 14. Marta Basso, University of Aveiro; A modelling approach to evaluate different post-fire management scenarios- Iddawnlowdja014-presentation-by-marta.pdfEnglish
- 15. Marcos Francos, University of Salamanca; Forest management to reduce wildfire severity and avoid soil degradation in Mediterranean forests- Iddawnlowdja015-presentation-by-marcos.pdfEnglish
- 16. Joana Parente, Universidade de Lisboa; Assessing the impact of wildfires on long-term erosion: LAPSUS and IC- Iddawnlowdja016-presentation-by-joana.pdfEnglish
Soil organic carbon
- 1. Anne Muntwyler, JRC and ETH Zurich; Modelling agricultural soil P dynamics in a long-term experiment of north-eastern Italy
- 2. Simone Zepp, German Aerospace Center (DLR); Estimation of Soil Organic Carbon Contents in Croplands from SCMaP Soil Reflectance Composites
- 3. Julia Fohrafellne,r BIOS Science Austria, Vienna; Quality assessment of meta-analyses on Soil Organic Carbon research -Iddawnlowdja003-presentation-by-julia.pdfEnglish
- 4. Laura Sofie, Harbo Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University; Changes in Danish agricultural soil SOC inventory between 2008 and 2018 - Iddawnlowdja004-presentation-by-laura.pdfEnglish
- 5. Konstantinos Karyotis, Laboratory of Remote Sensing, Spectroscopy and GIS, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; A crowdsourcing spiked bottom-up approach for Soil Organic Carbon mapping through multispectral imagery analysis - Iddawnlowdja005-presentation-by-konstantinos.pdfEnglish
- 6. Asma Jebari, Basque Centre for Climate Change, Bizkaia; Regional modelling of Soil Organic Carbon changes and greenhouse gas emissions in grasslands associated to cattle dairy production in Northern Spain
- 7. Elisa Bruni, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Saclay, GifsurYvette; Assessing the feasibility of Soil Organic Carbon stock increase in Europe with a multi-modelling - Iddawnlowdja007-presentation-by-elisa.pdfEnglish
- 8. Zsófia Adrienn, Kovács Institute for Soil Sciences, Centre for Agricultural Research, Budapest; Soil organic carbon content predicting based on PRISMA hyperspectral satellite imagery and synthetized LUCAS SOIL spectral data - Iddawnlowdja008-presentation-by-zsofia.pdfEnglish
- 9. Melani Cortijos-López, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Zaragoza; Mediterranean mid-mountain adaptation to Global Change: land management as strategy for enhancing Soil Carbon stock- Iddawnlowdja009-presentation-by-melani.pdfEnglish
- 10. Moritz Koza, Institute of Geosciences and Geography, Martin Luther University, Halle Wittenberg; Natural limitations influence the effect of tillage on aggregation in dry steppe soils
- 11. Murphy Rachael, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin and Teagasc, Wexford; Nitrous oxide emissions determined by eddy covariance and SC methods from a grazed grassland- Iddawnlowdja011-presentation-by-rachael.pdfEnglish
- 12. O’Neill Rosie, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin and Teagasc, Wexford; The effect of carbon availability on N2O emissions is moderated by soil phosphorus- Iddawnlowdja012-presentation-by-rosie.pdfEnglish
- 13. Olha Khomenko, Teagasc, Wexford and Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Limerick; Phosphorus availability and dynamics in soils amended with recycled dairy processing sludge
- 14. Dawid Kupka, Department of Forest Ecology and Silviculture, Krakow; How does climate change affect the soil organic matter of spruce stand soils?
- 15. Maria Nolan, University of Plymouth; Multi-dimensional environmental factors drive Soil Organic Matter formation across vegetation communities in a freshwater wetland - Iddawnlowdja015-presentation-by-maria.pdfEnglish
- 16. Łukasz Musielok, Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, Kraków; Linkage between land cover change and Soil Organic Carbon sequestration in mountain ecosystems - Iddawnlowdja016-presentation-by-lukasz.pdfEnglish
Soil biodiversity
- 2. Linnea Smith, iDiv; Large-scale drivers of relationships between soil microbial properties and organic carbon across Europe - Iddawnlowdja002-presentation-by-linnea.pdfEnglish
- 4. Sorcha R. Kelly, Teagasc, James Hutton Institute, National Uni of Ireland Galway; Soil nitrogen mineralisation, microbial community, and enzymatic activity are impacted by soil type and nutrient management- Iddawnlowdja004-presentation-by-sorcha.pdfEnglish
- 5. Rémy Beugnon, iDiv, Leipzig University; Tree diversity effects on litter decomposition are mediated by litterfall and microbial processes- Iddawnlowdja005-presentation-by-remy.pdfEnglish
- 10. Michael Steinwandter, Eurac Research; High alpine soil macro-invertebrates communities – First results from three elevation gradients (1500–3000 m)- Iddawnlowdja010-presentation-by-michael.pdfEnglish
- 12. Romy Zeiss, Leipzig University; Challenges and opportunities for protecting European soil biodiversity- Iddawnlowdja012-presentation-by-romy.pdfEnglish
Soil monitoring and contamination
- 1. Julia Köninger, U. Vigo, JRC; Manure management and soil biodiversity: Towards more sustainable food systems in the EU- Iddawnlowdja001-presentation-by-julia.pdfEnglish
- 5. Paul Drenning, Chalmers UT, COWI AB; Phytomanagement of Contaminated Sites- Iddawnlowdja005-presentation-by-paul.pdfEnglish
- 6. Inés Pereira-Rodríguez, U. León; Mining waste distribution in torrential wadis: analysis with sentinel-2 of Cartagena mining district- Iddawnlowdja006-presentation-by-ines.pdfEnglish
- 7. Leonidas Liakos, JRC; Challenges in geo-processing of Large scale Soil datasets. A geographer’s perspective.- Iddawnlowdja007-presentation-by-leonidas.pdfEnglish
- 8. Antonio Rodríguez Hernández, INIA-CISA/CSIC; Targeted monitoring of veterinary pharmaceuticals in the environment based on soil vulnerability to antibiotic- Iddawnlowdja008-presentation-by-antonio.pdfEnglish
- 12. Yakun Zhang, U. Wisconsin-Madison; Spectra-informed soil profile characterization and soil classification- Iddawnlowdja012-presentation-by-yakun.pdfEnglish
- 13. Giulio Genova, Free U. Bolzano; Land-use history and trace metal concentration to assess the impact of agricultural management on soilcontamination-Iddawnlowdja013-presentation-by-giulio.pdfEnglish