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IUSS Working Groups
The scientific activities of IUSS are undertaken through Divisions, Commissions and Working Groups.
Below you find information about the Working Groups and contact details of the Working Groups’ officers.
Division 1
Cryosols
Chair: Megan Balks
Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Waikato / New Zealand
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Vice Chair: -
Digital Soil Mapping
Chair: Laura Poggio
ISRIC / The Netherlands
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Vice Chair: Alessandro Samuel-Rosa
Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Santa Helena / Brazil
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Digital Soil Morphometrics
Chair: Alfred Hartemink
University of Wisconsin / Madison, USA
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Vice Chair: -
Global Soil Map
Contact person: Dominique Arrouays
INRA / France
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Proximal Soil Sensing
Chair: Zhou Shi
College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University / China
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Vice Chair: Craig Lobsey
National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture / Australia
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Soil Information Standards
Chair: Peter Wilson
CSIRO Land and Water / Australia
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Vice Chair: Rainer Baritz
EEA / Denmark
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Soil Monitoring
Chair: Dominique Arrouays
INRA- Orleans / France
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Vice Chair: Ben Marchant
British Geological Survey / UK
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Universal Soil Classification
Chair: Budiman Minasny
The University of Sydney / Australia
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Vice Chair: Philip R. Owens
United States Department of Agriculture / USA
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World Reference Base
Chair: Peter Schad
Lehrstuhl für Bodenkunde, Technische Universität München D-85350 Freising / Germany
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Vice Chair: Stephan Mantel
The Netherlands
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Division 2
Critical Zone System
Chair: Hans-Jörg Vogel
Helmhotz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ / Germany
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Vice Chair:
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Soil Modeling Consortium
Contact person: Harry Vereecken
Forschungszentrum Jülich / Germany
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Vice Chair: Michael H. Young
University of Texas at Austin / USA
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Division 3
Acid Sulphate Soils
Chair: Anton Boman
Geological Survey of Finland / Finland
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Vice Chair: Vanessa Wong
Monash University / Australia
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Forest Soils
Chair: Zhihong Xu
Griffith University / Australia
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Vice Chair: Chris Johnson
Syracuse University / USA
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Paddy Soils
Chair: Mizuhiko Nishida
Tohoku University/Japan
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Vice Chair: Bentio Heru Purwanto
Gadjah Mada University / Indonesia
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Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic, Mining and Military Areas (SUITMA)
Chair: Kye-Hoon John Kim
The University of Seoul / Korea
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Vice Chair: Przemysław Charzyński
Department of Soil Science and Landscape Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń / Poland
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Division 4
Cultural Patterns of Soil Understanding
Chair: Nikola Patzel
Germany
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Vice Chair: Erik Brevik
Dickinson State Univ. / USA
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