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SUMMARY:WRB Excursion – Peru 2025
DESCRIPTION:The WRB Peru field trip is organized to visit a soil Catena from Puno high plateau (3800 m.a.s.l) to Madre de Dios Region in the Peruvian Amazon Jungle (130 m.a.s.l), from cold and dry high mountains with a glacial landscape nearly to 4900 m.a.s.l. Many soils are formed from glacial, alluvial, colluvial and lacustrine deposits with salts, carbonates and high bases lixiviation processes under variety of climatic conditions from 5ºC to 25 ºC. It is the opportunity to know the Aymara and Quechua prehispanic culture, traditions and monuments in the cradle of the Inca empire and the traditional agriculture ridges Waru Waru and Titicaca lake islands.\nThe reference soil group will be visited in the excursion include Umbrisols, Regosol, Cambisol, Alisol, Stagnosol, Solonchaks, Phaenozems, Fluvisols, Histosols and Waru Waru soils. Visit the zone around the Titicaca Lake and Titicaca islands soils combined to Amazonas catchment soil catena.\nExpression of interest\nPlease send the following form:\nThey will be collected until January 31, 2025. The number of places is limited (30 people in total), in case of overbooking, the criteria for selection of participants will be the following:\n\nFirst Tour organizers and IUSS officers related to WRB.\nSecond PhD and Master students 7 places (25% of the total).\nPeople who made a significant and major contribution to WRB or its translation.\nActive members of the academic staff of a universities or governmental scientific organizations.\nAll others included retired scientists.\n\nThe final decision on the participants will be done by the excursion leaders and the Chair of IUSS Working Group World Reference Base, and will be release by March 24, 2025.\nInscription: https://forms.gle/LGbuArb248VvmFKL7\nOrganizing team\nCoordinators:\nSandro Sardon Nina. Universidad Nacional del Altiplano de Puno, Perú. ssardon@unap.edu.pe\nJuan Carlos Loaiza-Usuga. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia/ University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland. jcloaiza@unal.edu.co ( mailto:jcloaiza@unal.edu.co )\n
URL:https://www.iuss.org/events/wrb-excursion-peru-2025/
LOCATION:Peru
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