IUSS Divisions and Commissions Officers 2006 - 2010

 

The scientific activities of IUSS are undertaken through 4 Divisions and each Division has 4 to 6 Commissions. If you have information please send it to alfred.hartemink@wur.nl

Updated 26th December 2007

 

 

 

Divison 1

 

Soil in Space and Time

 

 

 

Division Chair

 

A. Mermut

University of Saskatchewan

Department of Soil Science

Saskatoon Sask. S7N 5A8

Canada

 

 

Mermut@skyway.usask.ca
 

 

 

Vice Chair

A.McBratney
Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
Room 304, McMillan Building
A03 - Ross Street
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006
Australia

Alex.McBratney@usyd.edu.au

 

     

 

1.1

Soil Morphology and micromorphology

 

 

Chair 

 

 

B. Buck

Dept. Geoscience

University of Nevada

Las Vegas
4505 Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas NV 89154-4010

USA

 

buckb@unlv.nevada.edu

 

 

Vice Chair

R. Poch

Medi Ambient i Ciències del Sòl
Universitat de Lleida
Av Rovira Roure 191
Lleida 25198
Catalunya

Spain

 

rosa.poch@macs.udl.es

 

 

1.2

Soil Geography

 

 

Chair 

 

D. Miller           

Earth and Environmental Systems

Institute, The Pennsylvania State University

2217 Earth-Engineering Science Bldg.

University Park, PA 16802

USA

 

miller@essc.psu.edu  

 

 

Vice Chair

 

C. Bini

Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Università di Venezia, 

Italy

 

bini@unive.it

 

1.3

Soil Genesis

 

 

 

Chair 

 

J. Bell

University of Minnesota

570 Borlaug Hall

1991 Upper Buford Circle

St. Paul MN 55108

USA

 

jaybell@umn.edu
 

   

Vice Chair

 

Sergey V. Goryachkin
Institute of Geography
Russian Academy of Sciences
Staromonetnyi per., 29
119017,

Moscow

Russia
 

sergey.gor@mail.ru

 

1.4

Soil Classification

   

Chair 

 

R. Ahrens

USDA-NRCS-NSSC
Federal Building, Room 152,
100 Centennial Mall North
Lincoln, NE 68508-3866

USA

 

bob.ahrens@lin.usda.gov
 

   

Vice Chair

 

E. Micheli

Szent Istvan University
Pater K.1.
H - 2100 Godollo

Hungary

 

Micheli.Erika@mkk.szie.hu

 

1.5

Pedometrics

   

Chair 

 

M. Lark

Environmetrics Group
Biomathematics and Bioinformatics Division Rothamsted Research Harpenden Hertfordshire
AL5 2JQ
United Kingdom

 

murray.lark@bbsrc.ac.uk
 

   

Vice Chair

 

 

B. Minasny

Faculty of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources JRA McMillan Building A05 The University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia

 

b.minasny@usyd.edu.au

 

 

1.6

Paleopedology

   

Chair  

 

E. Costantini

Istituto  Sperimentale per lo Studio e la Difesa del Suolo, P.zza D'Azeglio 30, 50139 Firenze 

Italy

 

costantini@issds.it
 

   

Vice Chair

 

A. Makeev

Soil Institute of the Faculty of Soil Science, MSU, Moscow,

Russia
makeev@fadr.msu.ru

 

 

 

Division 2

 

Soil Properties and Processes

 

    Division Chair

R. Kretzschmar

Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics. Department of Environmental Sciences
ETH Zentrum CHN F29.2, CH-8092 Zurich
Switzerland

 

kretzschmar@env.ethz.ch

 

 

Vice Chair

C. Smith
CSIRO Land and Water
GPO Box 1666
Canberra ACT 2601
Australia
 

Chris.J.Smith@csiro.au

 

2.1

Soil Physics

   

Chair  

 

 

 

 

 

P. Hallett

Scottish Crop Research Institute

Invergowrie

Dundee, DD2 5DA

Scotland

United Kingdom

paul.hallett@scri.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

   

Vice Chair

 

L. R. Ahuja

Agricultural Systems Research Unit Natural Resources Research Center 2150 Centre Avenue, Building D, Suite 200 Fort Collins, CO 80526-8119
970-492-731

USA

 

laj.ahuja@ars.usda.gov

 

 

2.2

Soil Chemistry

   

Chair  

 

 

 

 

 

M. Gerzabek

Institute of Soil Research Peter-Jordan-Strasse 82 University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU)

Austria

 

martin.gerzabek@boku.ac.at

 

 

 

 

   

Vice Chair

 

 

 

 

T. M. Miano

Dept. Agroforestal and Environmental Biology and Chemistry

University of Bari

Italy

miano@agr.uniba.it

 

 

 

2.3

Soil Biology

   

Chair  

 

 

 

 

P. Nannipieri

Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition. University of Firenze

Firenze

Italy

paolo.nannipieri@unifi.it

 

 

 

   

Vice Chair

 

H. Shindo

Faculty of Agriculture

Yamaguchi University,

Yamaguchi
753-8515

Japan
 

shindo@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp

 

2.4

Soil Mineralogy

   

Chair  

 

 

 

 

J. Churchman

School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of
Adelaide

Australia

jock.churchman@adelaide.edu.au

 

 

 

   

Vice Chair

 

 

 

E. Barberis

University of Torino

Torino

Italy

 

elisabetta.barberis@unito.it

 

 

 

 

2.5

Soil chemical, physical and biological interfacial reactions

   

Chair  

J. Berthelin

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
UMR 7137 du CNRS, UHP Nancy 1, Faculte des Siences
Domaine Victor Grignard
B.P. 239
F 54506 Vandoeuvre les Nancy Cedex
France

 

jacques.berthelin@limos.uhp-nancy.fr
   

Vice Chair

 

R.G. Burns

School of Land and Food Sciences
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072

Australia
 

r.burns@uq.edu.au

 

 

Division 3

 

Soil Use and Management

 

   

Division Chair

 

 

 

  

W. Burghardt

Universität Duisburg - Essen
Universitätsstr. 5
45117 Essen
Germany
Tel. 0201-183-3754
Germany

 

wolfgang.burghardt@uni-essen.de

 

 

   

Vice Chair

M. McLaughlin 
Prescott Building, Room 409
CSIRO Land and Water
PMB 2
Glen Osmond SA 5064

Australia

 

Mike.McLaughlin@adl.clw.csiro.au

 

3.1

Soil Evaluation and Land Use Planning

   

Chair 

 

 

 

 

R. Ralisch
Universidade Estadual de Londrina
Londrina, Paraná

Brazil
 

ralisch@uel.br

 

 

   

Vice Chair

 

 

 

 

S. Hoeke

University of Applied Soil Science
Department of Agriculture and Landscape Planning

P.O.Box 1940 Oldenburger Landstraße 24
49009 Osnabrueck

Germany
 

s.hoeke@fh-osnabrueck.de

 

 

3.2

Soil and Water Conservation

   

Chair 

 

 

 

 

 

D. Stott

Soil Microbiology / Biochemistry
USDA-ARS National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory
275 S. Russell Street
West Lafayette IN 47907-2

USA

destott@purdue.edu

 

 

   

Vice Chair

 

 

Y-S Jung

Kangwon National Univ., Chuncheon, 200-701

Korea

 

jungys7@kangwon.ac.kr

 or

soilskorea@hanmail.net

 

 

3.3

Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition

   

Chair 

 

 

 

J. Ryan

ICARDA

PO Box 5466, Aleppo, 5466

Syria

 

j.ryan@cgiar.org

 

   

Vice Chair

 

 

 

Richard W. Bell
Professor in Sustainable Land Management,
School of Environmental Science,
Murdoch University, 90 South St,
Murdoch WA 6150
Australia

 

R.Bell@Murdoch.edu.au

 

 

3.4

Soil Engineering and Technology

   

Chair 

 

 

Key-Hoon John Kim

University of Seoul

Dept. of Environmental Horticulture 90 Chonnong-dong

Tongdaemun-gu-130-743

Seoul

Korea

 

johnkim@uos.ac.kr

 

   

Vice Chair

 

 

 

M. Brar

Dpt. of Soils, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana

Punjab, 141004

India

 

brarms@yahoo.co.in

or

brarms@rediffmail.com 

  

 

3.5

Soil Degradation Control, Remediation, and Reclamation

   

Chair 

 

 

 

 

 

 

R. Naidu

Australian Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment & Remediation
SPRI Building, Room: W2-34
Mawson Lakes Boulevard
Mawson Lakes

South Australia

 

ravi.naidu@unisa.edu.au

 

 

 

   

Vice Chair

 

 

 

 

N.S. Bolan

Institute of Natural Resources , Massey University Palmerston North, New Zealand

 

N.S.Bolan@massey.ac.nz

 

 

 

 

Division 4

 

The Role of Soils in Sustaining Society and the Environment

 

   

Division Chair

  

 

L. Abbott

Faculty of Natural & Agricultural Sciences
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley WA 6009
Australia

 

labbott@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

 

 

   

Vice Chair

R. White
Soil Science Group
Faculty of Land and Food Resources
The University of Melbourne
Victoria, Australia 3010
Australia

 

robertew@unimelb.edu.au

 

4.1

Soils and the Environment

   

Chair  

B. Clothier

Sustainable Land Use Group
HortResearch
Private Bag 11-030
Palmerston North 4442

New Zealand
 

bclothier@hortresearch.co.nz
   

Vice Chair

I. Vogeler

Sustainable Land Use Group
HortResearch
Private Bag 11-030
Palmerston North 4442

New Zealand
 

ivogeler@hortresearch.co.nz

 

4.2

Soils, Food Security, and Human Health

   

Chair  

 

 

 

 

 

C. Rice

Kansas State University
2004 Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center
Department of Agronomy
Manhattan, KS 66506-5501
USA

 

cwrice@ksu.edu

 

 

   

Vice Chair

 

 

 

 

 

M.B. Kirkham

Department of Agronomy
Throckmorton Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas 66506-55010

USA

 

mbk@ksu.edu

 

 

 

4.3

Soils and Land Use Change

   

Chair  

 

L. Condron

Agriculture and Life Sciences Division
Department of Soil Science
Post Office Box 84
Lincoln University
Canterbury
New Zealand

 

Condronl@lincoln.ac.nz
   

Vice Chair

 

I. Salcedo

Dep. Energia Nuclear
Laboratorio de Radioagronomia
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
50740-540 Recife-PE
Brazil

 

salcedo@ufpe.br

 

4.4

Soil Education and Public Awareness

   

Chair  

 

R. Weil

Dept. of Environmental Science & Technology

University of Maryland

College Park, Md 20742

USA

 

rweil@umd.edu
   

Vice Chair

 

P. Drohan

Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
The Pennsylvania State University
452 ASI Building
University Park, PA 16802-3504
USA

 

patdrohan@psu.edu
 

4.5

History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Soil Science

   

Chair  

 

E. Landa

U.S. Geological Survey
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive
Mail Stop 430
Reston VA 20192
USA

 

erlanda@usgs.gov

 

 

Vice Chair

 

C. Feller

IRD, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
BP 434
101 Antananrivo
Madagascar

christian.feller@ird.fr

 

 

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