Rosa Maria Poch carries out research and teaching activities in the Department of Environment and Soil Sciences at the University of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. She is a soil scientist with a practical approach to soil science, since her undergraduate study in agricultural engineering. Her work focuses are soil degradation and conservation, watershed hydrology, soil micromorphology and soil physics. At present she is working in carbon sequestration in rehabilitated soils from coal mines, and assessing the potential of carbon storage and estimating carbon and N budgets in mountain soils affected by changing land uses in the Pyrenees. She is head of the thin section lab of the University of Lleida and Director of the Intensive Course on Soil Micromorphology (Barcelona, 2005, 2007). She is also the coordinator of the Master in Soil and Water Management (University of Lleida), focusing on diagnosis of degradation, management, and design of measures to manage soils and waters in Mediterranean agro- and forest ecosystems. She has been visiting professor in Togo, South Africa, Australia, Nicaragua, Russia, Moldavia, Belgium, and USA (California). She loves soil science and soil micromorphology. She is currently the vice Chair of the Commission 1.1