2018 – 2022
Division 1 – Soils in Space and Time
Chair: Erika MICHELI, Hungary
Micheli.Erika@uni-mate.hu
1st Vice Chair: Matt AITKENHEAD, United Kingdom
2nd Vice Chair: Jacqueline HANNAM, United Kingdom
j.a.hannam@cranfield.ac.uk
Commission 1.1 Soil morphology and micromorphology
Chair: Fabio TERRIBILE, Italy
terribil@unina.it
Vice Chair: Richard HECK, Canada
rheck@uoguelph.ca
Commission 1.2 Soil geography
Chair: Thomas SCHOLTEN, Germany
thomas.scholten@uni-tuebingen.de
Vice Chair: Sergey V. GORYACHKIN, Russia
sergey.gory@gmail.com
Commission 1.3 Soil Genesis
Chair: Endre DOBOS, Hungary
ecodobos@uni-miskolc.hu
Vice Chair: Megan BALKS, New Zealand
megan.balks@waikato.ac.nz
Commission 1.4 Soil Classification
Chair: Curtis MONGER, United States of America
cmonger@nmsu.edu
Vice Chair: Bipin B. MISHRA, India
bbmlup@gmail.com
Commission 1.5 Pedometrics
Chair: Vera Leatitia MULDER, Netherlands
titia.mulder@wur.nl
Vice Chair: Nicolas SABY, France
nicolas.saby@orleans.inra.fr
Commission 1.6 Paleopedology
Chair: Maria BRONNIKOVA, Russia
bronnikova@igras.ru
Vice Chair: Elizabeth SOLLEIRO-REBOLLEDO, Mexico
solleiro@geologia.unam.mx
Division 2 – Soil properties and processes
Chair: Ryusuke HATANO, Japan
hatano@chem.agr.hokudai.ac.jp
1st Vice Chair: Paul HALLETT, United Kingdom
paul.hallett@abdn.ac.uk
2nd Vice Chair: Leo CONDRON, New Zealand
Leo.Condron@lincoln.ac.nz
Commission 2.1 Soil physics
Chair: Stephan PETH, Germany
peth@ifbk.uni-hannover.de
Vice Chair: Brigitta TóTH, Hungary
Commission 2.2 Soil chemistry
Chair: Boris JANSEN, Netherlands
B.Jansen@uva.nl
Vice Chair: Karen VANCAMPENHOUT, Belgium
karen.vancampenhout@kuleuven.be
Commission 2.3 Soil biology
Chair: Ellen KANDELER, Germany
kandeler@uni-hohenheim.de
Vice Chair: Magdalena FRAC, Poland
m.frac@ipan.lublin.pl
Commission 2.4 Soil mineralogy
Chair: Stephan HILLIER, United Kingdom
Vice Chair: Sofia N. LESSOVAIA, Russia
s.lesovaya@spbu.ru
Commission 2.5 Soil chemical, physical and biological interfacial reactions
Chair: Siobhan STAUNTON, France
siobhan.staunton@inrae.fr
Vice Chair: Qiaoyun HUANG, China
qyhuang@mail.hzau.edu.cn
Division 3 Soil Use and Management
Chair: Bal Ram SINGH, Norway
balram.singh@nmbu.no
1st Vice Chair: Bob REES, United Kingdom
Bob.Rees@sruc.ac.uk
2nd Vice Chair: Tom ASPRAY United Kingdom
tom@ersremediation.com
Commission 3.1 Soil Evaluation and Land Use Planning
Chair: Ivan I. VASENEV, Russia
ivvasenev@gmail.com
Vice Chair: Jagdish Prasad, India
j.prasad57@gmail.com
Commission 3.2 Soil and Water Conservation
Chair: Lillian ØYGARDEN, Norway
Lillian.oygarden@nibio.no
Vice Chair: Nobuo TORIDE, Japan
ntoride@bio.mie-u.ac.jp
Commission 3.3 Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition
Chair: Bruno GLASER, Germany
bruno.glaser@landw.uni-halle.de
Vice Chair: Toru Fujiwara, Japan
atorufu@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Commission 3.4 Soil Engineering and Technology
Chair: Jiabao ZHANG, China
jbzhang@issas.ac.cn
Vice Chair: Laura E. PAULETTE, Romania
Laura.paulette@usamvcluj.ro
Commission 3.5 Soil Degradation, Control, Remediation and Reclamation
Chair: Stefan NORRA, Germany
stefan.norra@kit.edu
Vice Chair: Junta Yanai, Japan
yanai@kpu.ac.jp
Commission 3.6 Salt Affected Soils
Chair: Tibor Tóth, Hungary
tibor@rissac.hu
Vice Chair: Ki-In Kim, South Korea
rollingkim@mokpo.ac.kr
Division 4 The Role of Soils in Sustaining Society and the Environment
Chair: Damien J. FIELD, Australia
damien.field@sydney.edu.au
1st Vice Chair: Christine WATSON, United Kingdom
Christine.Watson@sruc.ac.uk
2nd Vice Chair: Lorna DAWSON, United Kingdom
Lorna.Dawson@hutton.ac.uk
Commission 4.1 Soils and the Environment
Chair:, Morihiro MAEDA, Japan
Vice Chair: Claudio ZACCONE, Italy
claudio.zaccone@univr.it
Commission 4.2 Soils, Food Security and Human Health
Chair: Heide SPIEGEL, Austria
adelheid.spiegel@ages.at
Vice Chair: to be elected
Commission 4.3 Soils and Land Use Change
Chair: Chengrong CHEN, Australia
c.chen@griffith.edu.au
Vice Chair: Sonoko BELLINGRATH-KIMURA, Germany, Japan
Sonoko.Bellingrath-Kimura@zalf.de
Commission 4.4 Soil Education and Public Awareness
Chair: Cristine C.MUGGLER, Brazil
cmuggler@ufv.br
Vice Chair: Hideaki HIRAI, Japan
Commission 4.5 History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Soil Science
Chair: Eric BREVIK, United States of America
eric.brevik@siu.edu
Vice Chair: Thomas SAUER, United States of America
Tom.Sauer@usda.gov
2014-2018
Division One – Soil in Space and Time
Division Chair: Erika Micheli, Hungary Contact
1st Vice Chair: Lúcia Helena dos Anjos , Brazil Contact
2nd Vice Chair: Ademir Fontana, Brazil Contact
Commission 1.1: Soil Morphology and Micromorphology
Chair: Rosa Poch, Spain Contact
Vice Chair: Richard J. Heck , Canada Contact
Commission 1.2: Soil Geography
Chair: Thomas Scholten, Germany Contact
Vice Chair: Angel Faz Cano, Spain Contact
Commission 1.3: Soil Genesis
Chair: Teruo Higashi, Japan Contact
Vice Chair: Nikolay Khitrov , Russia Contact
Commission 1.4: Soil Classification
Chair: John Galbraith, USA Contact
Vice Chair: Augusto Zanella, Italy Contact
Commission 1.5: Pedometrics
Chair: Budiman Minasny, Australia Contact
Vice Chair: Lin Yang, China Contact
Commission 1.6: Palaeopedology
Chair: Daniela Sauer, Germany Contact
Vice Chair: Sergey Sedov, Mexico Contact
Division Two – Properties and Processes
Division Chair: Kazuyuki Inubushi, Japan Contact
1st Vice Chair: Dalvan Jose Reinert, Brazil Contact
2nd Vice Chair: Valdomiro S Junior, Brazil Contact
Commission 2.1: Soil Physics
Chair: Stephan Peth , Germany Contact
Vice Chair: Tsuyoshi Miyazaki, Japan Contact
Commission 2.2: Soil Chemistry
Chair: Philippe Baveye, U.K. Contact
Vice Chair: Boris Jansen, Netherlands Contact
Commission 2.3: Soil Biology
Chair: Ellen Kandeler , Germany Contact
Vice Chair: Susumu Asakawa , Japan Contact
Commission 2.4: Soil Mineralogy
Chair: Balwant Singh, Australia Contact
Vice Chair: Stephen Hillier , Scotland Contact
Commission 2.5: Soil Interfacial Relations
Chair: Siobhan Staunton, France Contact
Vice Chair: Qiaoyun Huang, China Contact
Division Three – Soil Use and Management
Division Chair: Bal Ram Singh, Norway Contact
1st Vice Chair: Ildegardis Bertol, Brazil Contact
2nd Vice Chair: Heitor Cantarella, Brazil Contact
Commission 3.1: Soil Evaluation and Land Use Planning
Chair: Ivan Vasenev, Russia Contact
Commission 3.2: Soil and Water Conservation
Chair: Bernd Lennartz, Germany Contact
Vice Chair: Li Zhanbin, China Contact
Commission 3.3: Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition
Chair: Scott Chang, Canada Contact
Vice Chair: Toru Fujiwara, Japan Contact
Commission 3.4: Soil Engineering and Technology
Chair: Bin Zhang, China Contact
Vice Chair: Ţărău Dorin, Romania Contact
Commission 3.5: Soil Degradation, Control, Remediation and Reclamation
Chair: Jaume Bech, Spain Contact
Vice Chair: Xudong Zhang, China Contact
Commission 3.6: Salt Affected Soils
Chair: Donald Suarez, USA Contact
Vice Chair: Jingsong Yang, China Contact
Division Four – The Role of Soils in Sustaining Society & the Environment
Division Chair: Christian Feller, France Contact
1st Vice Chair: Cristine Carole Muggler, Brazil Contact
2nd Vice Chair: Cacio Abreu Junior, Brazil Contact
Commission 4.1: Soils and the Environment
Chair: Masamichi Takahashi, Japan Contact
Vice Chair: Ian Hollingsworth, Australia Contact
Commission 4.2: Soils, Food Security, and Human Health
Chair: Ganga Hettiarachchi, USA Contact
Vice Chair: Heide Spiegel, Austria Contact
Commission 4.3: Soils and Land Use Change
Chair: Ryusuke Hatano , Japan Contact
Vice Chair: Jay Jabro , USA Contact
Commission 4.4: Soil Education and Public Awareness
Chair: Damien Joseph Field, Australia Contact
Vice Chair: Cristine Carole Muggler, Brazil Contact
Commission 4.5: History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Soil Science
Chair: Thomas Sauer, USA Contact
Vice Chair: Richard Doyle, Australia Contact
2010-2014
IUSS Division and Commission Officers
| Division One – Soil in Space and Time | ||||
| Division Chair | K. Stahr, Germany | karl.stahr@uni-hohenheim.de | ||
| 1st Vice Chair
2nd Vice Chair |
S-Y. Hong , Korea
K-R. Kim, Korea |
syhong67@korea.kr | ||
| 1.1 Soil Morphology and Micromorphology | ||||
| Chair | R.M. Poch, Spain | rosa.poch@macs.udl.cat | ||
| Vice Chair | M. Gerard, France | Martine.Gerard@impmc.jussieu.fr | ||
| 1.2 Soil Geography | ||||
| Chair | R. Jahn, Germany | reinhold.jahn@landw.uni-halle.de | ||
| Vice Chair | A. Faz Cano, Spain | angel.fazcano@upct.es | ||
| 1.3 Soil Genesis | ||||
| Chair | G.L. Zhang, China | glzhang@issas.ac.cn | ||
| Vice Chair | Z. Zagorski, Poland | zagorski@delta.sggw.waw.pl | ||
| 1.4 Soil Classification | ||||
| Chair | J. Galbraith, USA | ttcf@vt.edu | ||
| Vice Chair | P. Krasilnikov, Russia | pavel.krasilnikov@gmail.com | ||
| 1.5 Pedometrics | ||||
| Chair | A-Xing Zhu, USA | azhu@wisc.edu | ||
| Vice Chair | Dick Brus, Netherlands | Dick.Brus@wur.nl | ||
| 1.6 Palaeopedology | ||||
| Chair | D. Sauer, Germany | d-sauer@uni-hohenheim.de | ||
| Vice Chair | S. Sedov, Mexico | sergey@geologia.unam.mx | ||
| Division Two – Properties and Processes | ||||
| Division Chair | M. Gerzabek, Austria | martin.gerzabek@boku.ac.at | ||
| 1st Vice Chair
2nd Vice Chair |
P-J. Kim, Korea
Y-S. Ok, Korea |
pjkim@gnu.ac.kr | ||
| 2.1 Soil Physics | ||||
| Chair | D. Or, Switzerland | dani.or@env.ethz.ch | ||
| Vice Chair | Bin Zhang, China | bzhang@issas.ac.cn | ||
| 2.2 Soil Chemistry | ||||
| Chair | J. Chorover, USA | chorover@cals.arizona.edu | ||
| Vice-Chair | T. Miano, Italy | miano@agr.uniba.it | ||
| 2.3 Soil Biology | ||||
| Chair | K. Inubushi, Japan | inubushi@faculty.chiba-u.ac.jp | ||
| Vice-Chair | F. Kandeler, Germany | ellen.kandeler@uni-hohenheim.de | ||
| 2.4 Soil Mineralogy | ||||
| Chair | D. Hesterberg, USA | dean_hesterberg@ncsu.edu | ||
| Vice-Chair | B. Singh, Australia | balwant.singh@sydney.edu.au | ||
| 2.5 Soil Interfacial Reactions | ||||
| Chair | A. Violante, Italy | violante@unina.it | ||
| Vice-Chair | S. Staunton, France | staunton@ensam.inra.fr | ||
| Division Three – Soil Use and Management | ||||
| Division Chair | R. Horn, Germany | rhorn@soils.uni-kiel.de | ||
| 1st Vice Chair
2nd Vice Chair |
M. Park, Korea
S-C. Kim, Korea |
manpark@knu.ac.kr | ||
| 3.1 Soil Evaluation and Land Use Planning | ||||
| Chair | S. Mantel, Netherlands | Stephan.Mantel@wur.nl | ||
| Vice Chair | G. Toth, Hungary | gergely.toth@jrc.it | ||
| 3.2 Soil and Water Conservation | ||||
| Chair | E. Cammeraat, Netherlands | L.H.Cammeraat@uva.nl | ||
| Vice Chair | B. Lennartz, Germany | bernd.lennartz@uni-rostock.de | ||
| 3.3 Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition | ||||
| Chair | A. Garcia-Ocampo, Colombia | sccsueloagarcia@uniweb.net.co | ||
| Vice Chair | B. Singh, India | BijaySingh20@hotmail.com | ||
| 3.4 Soil Engineering and Technology | ||||
| Chair | John Kim Key-Hoon , Korea | johnkim@uos.ac.kr | ||
| Vice Chair | S. Melchior, Germany | melchior@mplusw.de | ||
| 3.5 Soil degradation control, remediation, reclamation | ||||
| Chair | P. Gicheru, Kenya | cdnarl@iconnect.co.ke | ||
| Vice Chair | T. Kosaki, Japan | kosakit@kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp | ||
| 3.6 Salt-Affected Soils | ||||
| Chair | D. Suarez | Donald.Suarez@ars.usda.gov | ||
| Vice Chair | T. Toth | tibor.toth@jrc.ec.europa.eu | ||
| Division Four – The Role of Soils in Sustaining Society & the Environment | ||||
| Division Chair | C. Rice, USA | cwrice@ksu.edu | ||
| 1st Vice Chair
2nd Vice Chair |
J-J. Kim, Korea
C-O. Hong, Korea |
jjkim@chungbuk.ac.kr | ||
| 4.1 Soils and the Environment | ||||
| Chair | M. Aulakh, India | msaulakh2004@yahoo.co.in | ||
| Vice Chair | I. Vogeler, New Zealand | iris.vogeler@agresearch.co.nz | ||
| 4.2 Soils, Food Security and Human Health | ||||
| Chair | I. Pepper, USA | ipepper@ag.arizona.edu | ||
| Vice Chair | Y-G. Zhu, China | ygzhu@rcees.ac.cn | ||
| 4.3 Soils and Land Use Change | ||||
| Chair | R. Hatano, Japan | hatano@chem.agr.hokudai.ac.jp | ||
| Vice Chair | M.H. Roozitalab, Iran | roozitalab@dpimail.net | ||
| 4.4 Soil Education and Public Awareness | ||||
| Chair | S. Cattle Australia | s.cattle@usyd.edu.au | ||
| Vice Chair | J. Wang, China | wangjg@cau.edu.cn | ||
| 4.5 History, Philosophy and Sociology of Soil Science | ||||
| Chair | J. Churchman, Australia | jock.churchman@adelaide.edu.au | ||
| Vice-Chair | E. Landa, USA | erlanda@usgs.gov | ||
2006-2010
IUSS Division & Commission officers
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
| Divison 1 – Soil in Space and Time | |||
| Division Chair
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A. Mermut University of Saskatchewan Department of Soil Science Saskatoon Sask. S7N 5A8 Canada |
Mermut@skyway.usask.ca
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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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
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| 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
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| 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
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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 |
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2006 – 2010
IUSS Working Groups officers
The scientific activities of IUSS are undertaken through Divisions, Commissions and Working Groups. Here are the contact details of the Working Groups officers.
(Updated May 2014)
| Acide Sulphate Soils | ||
| Chair | Leigh Sullivan Southern Cross University Australia |
l.sullivan@federation.edu.au |
| Vice Chair | Peter Österholm Abo University Finland |
posterho@abo.fi |
| Cryosols
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| Chair | Megan Balks Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Waikato, New Zealand |
m.balks@waikato.ac.nz
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| Vice Chair | ||
| Digital Soil Mapping | ||
| www.digitalsoilmapping.org | ||
| Chair | Mogens Greve Aarhus University Denmark |
mogensh.greve@agrsci.dk |
| Vice Chair | ||
| Digital Soil Morphometrics | ||
| www.digitalsoilmorphometrics.org | ||
| Chair | Alfred Hartemink University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA |
hartemink@wisc.edu |
| Forest soils | ||
| Chair | Zhihong Xu Griffith University, Australia |
zhihong.xu@griffith.edu.au |
| Vice Chair | Chris Johnson Syracuse University, USA |
cejohns@mailbox.syr.edu |
| Global Soil Change | ||
| Chair | Dan Richter Duke University, USA |
drichter@duke.edu |
| Vice Chair | Susan Andrews USDA, USA |
Susan.andrews@lin.usda.gov |
| Heritage Soils | ||
| Chair | David Dent | dentsinengland@hotmail.com |
| Vice Chair | Boris Boincean Republic of Moldova |
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| Hydropedology | ||
| Chair | Henry Lin Pennsylvania State University, USA. |
hul3@psu.edu |
| Vice Chair | Hans-Jörg Vogel Helmhotz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany. |
hans-joerg.vogel@ufz.de |
| Land Degradation | ||
| Chair | Bal Ram Singh Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Agricultural University of Norway, Ås, Norway |
balram.singh@ipm.nlh.no |
| Vice Chair | Rattan Lal Carbon Management and Sequestration Center School of Natural Resources, OSU, Columbus USA |
lal.1@osu.edu |
| Modelling of Soil and Landscape Evolution | ||
| http://soillandscape.org/ | ||
| Chair | Peter Finke University of Ghent, Belgium |
Peter.Finke@UGent.be |
| Vice Chair | Tom Vanwalleghem University of Cordoba, Spain |
ag2vavat@uco.es |
| Paddy Soils | ||
| Chair | Ho Ando Japan |
handou@tds1.tr.yamagata-u.ac.jp |
| Vice Chair | Stephan Haefele | s.haefele@cgiar.org |
| Proximal soil sensing | ||
| www.proximalsoilsensing.org | ||
| Chair | Marc Van Meirvenne University of Gent, Belgium |
marc.vanmeirvenne@ugent.be |
| Vice Chair | Robin Gebbers Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering, Postdam, Germany |
rgebbers@atb-potsdam.de
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| Soil monitoring | ||
| Chair | Dominique Arrouays INRA- Orleans France |
Dominique.Arrouays@orleans.inra.fr |
| Vice Chair | Ben Marchant British Geological Survey UK |
benmarch@bgs.ac.uk
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| Soil Information Standards | ||
| www.soilinformationstandards.org | ||
| Chair | Peter Wilson CSIRO Land and Water, Australia |
peter.wilson@csiro.au |
| Vice Chair | Rainer Baritz BGR, Germany |
Rainer.Baritz@bgr.de |
| Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic, Mining and Military Areas (SUITMA)
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| Website link | ||
| Chair | Jean Louis Morel ENSAIA – INRA, Nancy France |
Jean-Louis.Morel@ensaia.inpl-nancy.fr |
| Vice Chair | Ganlin Zhang Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Science, China |
glzhang@issas.ac.cn |
| Universal Soil Classification System | ||
| http://clic.cses.vt.edu/IUSS1.4/ | ||
| Chair | Jon Hempel USDA-NRCS, USA |
jon.hempel@lin.usda.gov |
| Vice Chair | Luca Montanarells EU-JRC, Ispra, Italy |
luca.montanarella@jrc.ec.europa.eu
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| World Reference Base | ||
| http://www.fao.org/nr/land/soils/soil/en/ | ||
| Chair | Peter Schad Lehrstuhl für Bodenkunde Technische Universität München D-85350 Freising Germany |
schad@wzw.tum.de |
| Vice Chair | Cornie Van Huyssteen South Africa |
vhuystcufs.ac.za |
IUSS Bureau officers
President
Prof. Roger Swift
Executive Dean
Craigiebuckler
Faculty of Natural Resources
Agriculture and Veterinary Sc
Univ. of Queensland
Email: deannravs@uq.edu.au
Vice-President
Prof. Neal Menzies
School of Land and Food Sciences
University of Queensland, St Lucia
Australia
Email: n.menzies@uq.edu.au
Secretary-General
Prof. Stephen Nortcliff
Department of Soil Science
The University of Reading
PO Box 233 Whiteknights
Reading RG6 6DW
United Kingdom
44 (0) 118378 6559 phone
44 (0) 118378 6666 fax
Email: iuss@reading.ac.uk
Deputy Secretary-General
Dr. Alfred E. Hartemink
ISRIC – World Soil Information
P.O. Box 353
6700 AJ Wageningen
The Netherlands
phone 31 (0) 317 471713
fax(0) 317 471700
Email: Alfred.Hartemink@wur.nl
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IUSS Bureau officers (2002-2006)
President
Prof. Donald L. Sparks
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19717-1303
(302) 831-8153 phone
(302) 831-0605 fax
Email: dlsparks@udel.edu
Vice-President
Prof. Gary W. Petersen
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
The Pennsylvania State University
116 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building
University Park, PA 16802-3504
(814) 865-1540 phone
(814) 863-7043 fax
Email: gwp2@psu.edu
Secretary-General
Prof. Stephen Nortcliff
Department of Soil Science
The University of Reading
PO Box 233 Whiteknights
Reading RG6 6DW
United Kingdom
44 (0) 118378 6559 phone
44 (0) 118378 6666 fax
Email: iuss@reading.ac.uk
Deputy Secretary-General
Dr. Alfred E. Hartemink
ISRIC – World Soil Information
P.O. Box 353
6700 AJ Wageningen
The Netherlands
phone 31 (0) 317 471713
fax(0) 317 471700
Email: Alfred.Hartemink@wur.nl
Treasurer
Dr. J H Gauld
The Macaulay Institute
Craigiebuckler
Aberdeen AB15 8QH
UK
Tel (44 )01224 498200 ext 2002
Fax (44) 01224 208065
Email: j.gauld@macaulay.ac.uk
IUSS Division & Commission officers
The scientific activities of IUSS are undertaken through 4 Divisions and each Division has 4 to 5 Commissions. The Divisions and Commissions are headed by a chairperson and two vice-chairs. An overview of the Divisions, Commissions and officers with their e-mail addresses is given below.
| Division 1 – Soil in Space and Time | |
| Chairperson: | Ahmet MERMUT, Dept. of Soil Science, Fac. of Agriculture, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask., S7N 5A8, Canada; Fax:+1-966-6881; mermut@pedology.net |
| Vice-Chair: | Michael J. SINGER, 1 Shields Ave., University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA; mjsinger@ucdavis.edu |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Mary E. COLLINS, Soil and Water Science Department, 2169 McCarty Hall, Box 110290, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA. Fax: +1-352-392-3902 ; mec@ifas.ufl.edu |
| COMMISSION 1.1 – Soil morphology and micromorphology | |
| Chairperson: | Geoff HUMPHREYS, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia; Fax: +612-9850-8420; ghumphre@els.mq.edu.au |
| Vice-Chair: | Alexander TSATSKIN, University of Haifa, Dpt. of Archaeology, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel, tsatskin@research.haifa.ac.il |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Brenda BUCK, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89154-4010,USA; +1-702-895-4064; buckb@unlv.edu |
| COMMISSION 1.2 – Soil geography | |
| Chairperson: | Reinhold JAHN, Institute of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, University Halle-Wittenberg, Weidenplan 14, 06108 Halle/Saale, Germany; Fax: (+49) 345-5522530/31; jahn@landw.uni-halle.de |
| Vice-Chair: | Jaime BECH, Fac. of Biology, Univ. of Bacelona, Avda. Diagonal, 645, Barcelona, 8028, Spain; Fax: +34-93-411-2842; jabechbo@porthos.bio.ub.es |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Victor B. ASIO, Soil Science Section, Leyte State University, Baybay, Leyte 6521-A, Philippines; Fax: +63-53-335-2652; vbasio_ph@yahoo.com |
| COMMISSION 1.3 – Soil genesis | |
| Chairperson: | Victor TARGULIAN, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, 29, Staromonetny per., 109017, Moscow, Russia; targul@centro.ru |
| Vice-Chair: | Ganlin ZHANG, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 821, Nanjing 21008, P. R. China; glzhang@issas.ac.cn |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Angel FAZ CANO, Dtp. de Producción Agraria, Univ. Politécnica, Paseo Alfonso XIII, 52, 30203 Cartagena, Murcia, Spain; Fax: +34-968-325435; angel.fazcano@upct.es |
| COMMISSION 1.4 – Soil classification | |
| Chairperson: | Robert AHRENS, Director, NSSC, USDA-NRCS, 100 Centennial Mall North, Fed. Bldg., Room 152, Lincoln, Nebr. 68508-3866, USA; Fax: +1-402-437-5336; bob.ahrens@nsscnt.nssc.nrcs.nrcs.usda.gov |
| Vice-Chair: | Susana PAZOS, Fac. de Agronomía, UNCPBA, CC47, Azul, 7300, Fax: +54-2281-433-291; Argentina; spazos@faa.unicen.edu.ar |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Seppe DECKERS, Catholic University Leuven, Inst. for Land and Water Management, Vital Decosterstr. 102, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; Fax: +32-16-32-97-60; seppe.deckers@agr.kuleuven.ac.be |
| COMMISSION 1.5 – Pedometrics (New April 2004 – officers are interim) | |
| Chairperson: | Gerard HEUVELINK, ALTERRA, Wageningen University and Research Centre, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands gerard.heuvelink@wur.nl |
| Vice-Chair: | Sabine GRUNWALD, Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida, 2169 McCarty Hall, P.O. Box 110290, Gainesville, Florida, USA, SGrunwald@mail.ifas.ufl.edu |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | To be elected |
| COMMISSION 1.6. – Paleopedology (New April 2004 – officers are interim) | |
| Chairperson: | Edoardo A.C. COSTAMTINI, Experimental Institute for Soil Study and Conservation, Piazza M. D’Azeglio 30, 50121 Firenze, Italy; Fax: +39-055-241485; costantini@issds.it |
| Vice-Chair: | Alexander O. MAKEEV, MSU-RAS Soil Institute, Science Park of Moscow University, building 1, Vorobyovy Goru, 119899, Moscow, Russia, Fax: +7 095 930 8963; makeev@fadr.msu.ru |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Francesco MALUCELLI, Geological Seismic and Soil Survey – Emilia-Romagna Region Italy, Viale Silvani, 4/3, 40122 Bologna, Italy |
| Division 2 – Soil properties and processes | |
| Chairperson: | Nicola SENESI, Istituto di Chimica Agraria, University of Bari, Via Amendola 165/A, Bari 70126, Italy; Fax: +39-80-544-28-13; senesi@agr.uniba.it |
| Vice-Chair: | Jim M. TIEDJE, Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI 48824-1325; Fax: +1-517-353-2917, USA; tiedjej@pilot.msu.edu |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | D. Keith CASSEL, Department of Soil Science, North Carolina State University, Box 7619, Raleigh, NC 27695-762, USA Keith_Cassel@NCSU.edu |
| COMMISSION 2.1 – Soil physics | |
| Chairperson: | Marcello PAGLIAI, Istituto Sperimentale per lo Studio e la Difesa del Suolo, Piazza M. D’Azeglio 30, 50121 Firenze, Italy, Fax: +39(0)55241485; pagliai@issds.it |
| Vice-Chair: | Donald GABRIELS, Univ. of Gent, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Gent, Belgium; Fax: +32-92-6462-47; donald.gabriels@rug.ac.be |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Gujja N. MAGESAN, Forest Research, Sala Str. P.B. 3020, Rotorua, New Zealand; Fax: +64-7-348-0952; gujja.magesan@forestresearch.co.nz |
| COMMISSION 2.2 – Soil chemistry | |
| Chairperson: | Alessandro PICCOLO, Universita degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Facolta di Agraria, Dipartimento di Scienze Chimico-Agrarie, Via Universita 100, 80055 Portici NA, Italy; Fax: (+39) 081 775 51 30; alpiccol@unina.it |
| Vice-Chair: | Martin GERZABEK, University of Natural Respources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Inst. Soil Research, A-1190 Vienna, Peter-Jordan-Strasse 82, Fax. +43-1-47654-3130, martin.gerzabek@boku.ac.at |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Peter BUURMAN, Soil Science and Geology WU, P.O.Box 37, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands; Fax: 31-317-482419; peter.buurman@wur.nl |
| COMMISSION 2.3 – Soil biology | |
| Chairperson: | Vadakattu GUPTA, CSIRO Land and Water, PMB No. 2, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia, Fax: +61-8-8303-8550; gupta.vadakattu@csiro.au |
| Vice-Chair: | Kazuyuki INUBUSHI, Fac. of Horticulture, Chiba Univ., Matsudo 648, Matsudo, Chiba, 271-8510, Fax: +81-473-088720; Japan; inubushi@midori.h.chiba-u.ac.jp |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Richard DICK, Oregon State Univ. Dept. of Crop and Soil Science, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA; Fax: +1-541-737-5725; richard.dick@orst.edu |
| COMMISSION 2.4 – Soil mineralogy | |
| Chairperson: | Rob FITZPATRICK, CSIRO Land and Water, PMB No. 2, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia, Fax: +61-8-8303-8550; rob.fitzpatrick@csiro.au |
| Vice-Chair: | Carolyn OLSON, USDA-NRCS, 100 Centennial Mall, Lincoln, NE, 68503, USA; Fax: +1-402-437-5336; carolyn.olson@nssc.nrcs.usda.gov |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Eleonora BONIFACIO, Università de Torino, DIVAPRA Chimica Agraria, via Leonardo da Vinci 44, 10095 Grugliasco, Italy; Fax: +39-011-4031819; eleonora.bonifacio@unito.it |
| COMMISSION 2.5 – Soil interfacial reactions (New April 2004) | |
| Chairperson: | To be elected |
| Vice-Chair: | To be elected |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | To be elected |
| Division 3 – Soil Use and Management | |
| Chairperson: | Wolfgang BURGHARDT, Univ. GH Essen, Inst. of Ecology, Universitätsstr.5, 45117 Essen, Germany; Fax: +49(0)201-183-2390; wolfgang.burghardt@uni-essen.de |
| Vice-Chair: | John HAVLIN, Dept. of Soil Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA; Tel.: +1-919-513-4411; john_havlin@ncsu.edu |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Diane STOTT, USDA-ARS National Soil Erosion Res. Lab, 1196 Soil Building, 275 S. Russell Street, West Lafayette IN 47907-2077, USA; Fax:+1-765-494-5978; destott@purdue.edu |
| COMMISSION 3.1 – Soil evaluation and land use planning | |
| Chairperson: | Ricardo RALISCH, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina PR., 86051-990, Brazil; Fax: +55-43-3714079; ralisch@uel.br |
| Vice-Chair: | Lamourdia THIOMBIANO, Association Ouest et Centre Africaine de la Science du Sol (AOCASS) 06 B.P.9046, Ouagadougou 06, Burkina Faso; Lamourdth@yahoo.fr |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Miguel Angel AYARZA, CIAT-LADERAS, Honduras, Apartado 1410, Edificio Palmira, Frente a Hotel Honduras Maya, 2do. piso, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. ciathill@cablecolor.hn |
| COMMISSION 3.2 – Soil and water conservation | |
| Chairperson: | Don SUAREZ, George E. Brown Jr. Salinity Lab., 450 W. Big Springs Road, Riverside, CA, 92507-4617, USA; Fax: +1-909-342-4962; dsuarez@ussl.ars.usda.gov |
| Vice-Chair: | Yeong-Sang JUNG, Div. of Biological Environ., College of Agric. and Life Sciences, Kangwon National Univ., Chuncheon, 200-701, Korea; Fax: +82-332-422-6640; jungys7@kangwon.ac.kr |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Matilde Somarribe-CHANG, Esso El GueGuense 3 cudras al sur, Managua, Nicaragua. Fax +505 2 33 14 39. Matilde.Somarriba@una.edu.ni |
| COMMISSION 3.3 – Soil fertility and plant nutrition | |
| Chairperson: | John RYAN, ICARDA, PO Box 5466, Aleppo, 5466, Syria; Fax: +96-321-222-5105; j.ryan@cgiar.org |
| Vice-Chair: | Alvaro GARCIA-OCAMPO, Escuela de Graduados, National University of Colombia, A. Aereo 237, Palmira, Valle del Cauca, Colombia; Fax. +57-2-2717055; agarcia@palmira.unal.edu.co |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Cheryl PALM, USA, cpalm@iri.columbia.edu |
| COMMISSION 3.4 – Soil engineering and technology | |
| Chairperson: | Rainer HORN, Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Christian Albrechts University, Olshausenstr. 40, 24118 Kiel, Germany; Fax: +49-431-880-2940; rhorn@soils.uni-kiel.de |
| Vice-Chair: | Mukand BRAR, Dpt. of Soils, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, 141004, India; Fax: +91-161-400945; brarms@yahoo.com |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Bin ZHANG, Inst. of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 71, Beijing Road East, Nanjing, 210008, P. R. China; Fax: +86-25-3353590; jmzhou@issas.ac.cn or xydong@issas.ac.cn |
| COMMISSION 3.5 – Soil degradation control, remediation and reclamation | |
| Chairperson: | Ravi NAIDU, Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation, UniSA, W2-34 SPRI Building, Mawson Lakes Boulevard, Mawson Lakes SA 5095, Australia , Fax: +618 8302 3057; Ravi.Naidu@unisa.edu.au |
| Vice-Chair: | Tibor TOTH, MTA TAKI, Pf. 35, 1525 Budapest, Hungary; Fax: +36-1-212-1891; tibor@rissac.hu |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Yongguan Zhu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China |
| Division 4 – The Role of Soils in Sustaining Society and the Environment | |
| Chairperson: | Emmanuel FROSSARD, Institute of Plant Sciences, ETH, Eschikon Research Station, Postfach 185, Eschikon 33 83, CH-8315 Lindau, Switzerland, Fax: +41(0)52-354-9119; emmanuel.frossard@ipw.agrl.ethz.ch |
| Vice-Chair: | Tom SIMS, Dept. of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, USA; jtsims@udel.edu |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Domy ADRIANO, The University of Georgia, Savanna River Ecology Lab, Drawer, E, Aiken, SC 29808, USA Adriano@srel.edu |
| COMMISSION 4.1 – Soils and the environment | |
| Chairperson: | Lars BERGSTROM, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sci., Box 7072, Uppsala, 750 07, Sweden; Fax: +46-18-673430; lars.bergstrom@mv.slu.se |
| Vice-Chair: | Peter KLEINMAN, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit, University Park, PA 16802-3702, USA; Fax: +1-814-865-2058, pjk9@psu.edu |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Michel ROBERT, MAE/DEEEE, Service de la Recherce et de la Prospective, 20 av. de Ségur, 75302 Paris 07 SP, Fax: +33-1-42-19-17-71; michel.robert@environnement.gouv.fr |
| COMMISSION 4.2 – Soils, food security, and human health | |
| Chairperson: | Charles RICE, Dept. of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-5501, USA; Tel.: +1-785-532-7217; cwrice@ksu.edu |
| Vice-Chair: | Josef KOZAK, Czech University of Agriculture, 165 21 Prague, Czech Republic; Fax: +42(0)22-0921-644; kozak@af.czu.cz |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Mary Beth KIRKHAM, Dept. of Agronomy, Throckmorton Hall, Kansas State University, Manhatan, Kansas 66506-5501, USA; Fax: +1-785-532-6094; mbk@ksu.edu |
| COMMISSION 4.3 – Soils and land use change | |
| Chairperson: | Andrew SHARPLEY, USDA-ARS, Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit, Curtin Road, University Park, PA 16802-3702, USA; Fax: +1-814-865-2058; ans3@psu.edu |
| Vice-Chair: | Deanna Lynn OSMOND, Dept. of Soil Science, North Carolina State University, P.O. Box 7619, Raleigh, NC, 27695-7619, USA; Tel.: +1-919-515-7303; deanna_osmond@ncsu.edu |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Dr. Louis V. VERCHOT, Ecosystem Processes and Management, ICRAF World Agroforestry Centre, United Nations Avenue, P.O. Box 30677-00100, Nairobi, Kenya; Fax: +254-2-524001; l.verchot@cgiar.org |
| COMMISSION 4.4 – Soil education and public awareness | |
| Chairperson: | Mireille DOSSO, CNEARC, B.P. 5098, 1101 Av. Agropolis, 34033 Montpellier, France; Fax: +33-46741-0232; dosso@cnearc.fr |
| Vice-Chair: | Pam HAZELTON, Univ. of Technology, Sydney, Fac. of Engineering, Building 2, Level 5, Broadway, 2007, Australia; Fax: +61-295-142-633; p.hazelton@uts.edu.au |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Rabah LAHMAR, The Soil Campaign, FPH, 38, rue Saint Sabin, 75011 Paris, France; Fax: + 33 1 43 14 75 99; rabah@alliance21.org |
| COMMISSION 4.5 – History, philosophy, and sociology of soil science | |
| Chairperson: | Benno WARKENTIN,Dept. of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA, Fax: +1-541-737-5725; benno.warkentin@orst.edu |
| Vice-Chair: | Dan YAALON, Institute of Earth Sciences, Givat Ram Campus, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel, Fax: +97-225-662-581; yaalon@vms.huji.ac.il |
| 2nd Vice-Chair: | Hans VAN BAREN, ISRIC – World Soil Information, P.O.Box 353, 6700 AJ Wageningen, The Netherlands; Fax.: +31-317-47-1700; hans.vanbaren@wur.nl |
IUSS Standing Committee officers
| Committee on awards and prizes | |
| Chair: | Winfried E.H. Blum, University of Natural Resources, and Applied, Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna herma.exner@boku.ac.at |
| Members: | H.P. Blume, Germany G. Varallyay, Hungary S. Goryachkin, Russia, L. Abbott, Australia |
| Committee on budget and finances | |
| Chair: | Robin F. Harris Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1525 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706-1299, USA rfharris@wisc.edu |
| Members: | L.M. Netto, Brazil J. Herrero, Spain N. Pasricha, India Shixuezheg, China D.Smiles, Australia L. Thiombiano Burkina Faso J.GAULD (ex officio) S. Nortcliff (ex officio) |
| Committee on statutes and byelaws | |
| Chair: | John Kimble 151 East Hill Church Road Addison, NY 14801, USA Phone 606 359 4475 soilcarbon@aol.com |
| Members: | L. Wilding, USA C. DeKimpe, Canada G. Narayanasamy, India S. Nortcliff (ex officio) |