European Geoscience Union meeting
13-18 April 2008
Vienna, Austria

Congress web page:  http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2008/

Soil-specific information: http://www.cosis.net/members/meetings/programme/view.php?prg=313

The 2nd Workshop Lysimeters for Global Change Research: Biological Processes and the Environmental Fate of Pollutants
GSF- National Research Center for Environment and Health campus in Neuherberg near Munich (Germany)
April 23-25, 2008

The workshop provides an excellent forum for reporting recent developments using lysimeters as a research platform and for presenting technological advances of lysimeters and the ancillary equipment. The meeting emphasizes on the interaction and the mass transport between the atmosphere, the plants, the soil, the fauna, and the groundwater. It will bring together researchers from academia, industry and government laboratories. Both the researches who have already worked with lysimeters and those who have not yet become acquainted with lysimeters, but who are eager to learn about it will find a unique opportunity to discuss and exchange novel research ideas.

The local organizer is Dr. Sascha Reth of the National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Soil Ecology, Department of Environmental Engineering. Homepage: http://www.gsf.de/lysimeter-workshop

EU Conference on Soils and Climate Change

Brussels

12 June 2005

A one day conference on the theme of soil and climate change and on the possible role of soil management in climate change mitigation and adaptation. The conference will be opened by Commissioner Dimas and will see the participation of leading scientists and researchers who will report on the latest scientific findings concerning these issues. Members of the European Parliament, representatives of the Council of Ministers and other key players have been invited to participate in a roundtable discussion to express their views on the policy options that are available for enhancing the role that soils can play as a repository of carbon and limiting the loss organic carbon from soils. http://ec.europa.eu/environment/soil/conf_en.htm