The British Society of Soil Science is delighted to announce the next Zoom into Soil webinar will take place on Wednesday 6 March from 12:00 - 1:00 pm (UK time) and is free of charge to register. Join Sarah George, BSSS Outreach Committee Member, and Olivia Azevedo, PhD student at the University of Stirling and Forest Research, as they discuss the benefits of natural processes in relation to soils.
You can register for free at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5650216969418712154
Sarah George will be speaking about ‘Knepp Soils and their role in natural regeneration’. She is an ecologist and safari guide at the Knepp Rewilding Project. Sarah has degrees in Countryside Management and Ecology and also a Research Masters in Ecology where she focussed on soils. She has a lifelong love of horses and have worked with them in traditional, conservation grazing and rewilding set ups and has also worked with lots of other livestock. As such, this makes her involvement at Knepp much about the large herbivores, their impact on the soils and of course, the vegetation in between. She also lectures and writes land management courses at school, college and university levels, and is involved in assessing land and wildlife qualifications for a UK examining board.
Olivia Azevedo will be speaking on Long-Term Effects of Woodland Creation on Soil Structure and the Fate of Carbon. She is a PhD student at the University of Stirling and Forest Research, exploring temperate forest soil interactions, emphasizing the influence of woodland creation on soil properties, nutrient cycling, and ecosystem dynamics amidst climate change mitigation efforts. Her research investigates the long-term impacts of woodland establishment on soil structure and carbon distribution across aggregate class sizes in temperate forests. This study is significant in the current discourse on climate change as it elucidates the pivotal role of woodlands in carbon sequestration and soil health maintenance.
The webinar includes one hour BASIS and NRoSO CPD points. We look forward to welcoming you on the webinar.
CA4SH Webinar - The road ahead for soil health action: Creating an enabling policy environment for soil health post-COP28
Soil has recently made its way into high-level policy mechanisms, such as the Australian National Soil Strategy and the European Union Soil Strategy for 2030, and is gaining ground through the United Kingdom Soil Health Inquiry.
In multinational dialogue, soil health was also included in the decisions following the UNFCCC COP27 in 2022, through the Koronivia joint work on agriculture, and in the Emirates Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems and Climate Action at COP28. However, translating these decisions into enabling policy mechanisms is not a linear path.
To gain momentum on these important movements, and scale into other contexts, CA4SH is organising the first session of the 2024 Webinar Series around the topic of road mapping soil health into policy.
Through this event, key policy actors who have led the way in integrating soil health into policy mechanisms will create a roadmap for other stakeholders who wish to do the same in their contexts.
This event targets a broad audience including stakeholders interested in advocating for soil health in their national policy frameworks. The 1.5 hr/session webinar series is open and free to attend to be inclusive to as many interested soil health advocates as possible. Each session will comprise presentations from experts from various scales and sectors across the CA4SH membership, as well as a panel discussion and Q&A with speakers.
Register here - https://www.coalitionforsoilhealth.org/ca4sh-events/2024-webinar-series-session-1
MidLE Spring 2024: Networking and Nibbles
MidLE: Midlands Land Events bridges the land, property and environmental forum gap in the Midlands. MidLE aims to connect, inspire and inform land and property professionals in the Midlands. With our events, we aim to provide a friendly and engaging platform for professionals of all levels of expertise, knowledge, and experience.
Their first event of 2024, generously sponsored by Socotec UK Ltd, will provide an opportunity for attendees across the industry and experience levels to share their experiences and collaborate. The focus of the event will be "Fostering collaboration through interactions across experience levels and sectors". There will be welcome drinks and bar snacks/nibbles kindly sponsored by our sponsor, and a chance to learn more about the early career pathways at Socotec through a mini-poster event.
The event will be held at Kilo Zero, the UK’s First Zero Waste Café Bar & Taproom, with sustainability and zero waste at its heart.
To learn more and get tickets, visit: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/midlandslandevents/1142823
Join ECT for their next webinar on The Park Grass Long-term Experiment.
ECT launched its webinar series in January 2019. They comprise an invited guest speaker who delivers a 30-minute talk using on-line slides, followed by 30 minutes of moderated Q&A with participants. Anyone can participate on request.
Next webinar: The Park Grass Long-term Experiment: 168 Years and Still Delivering New Science
Speaker: Jonathan Storkey, Rothamsted Research
Date & time: 12:30 - 1:30pm on 15 March 2024
Register & participate: To register and receive the joining instructions for this webinar, please e-mail Danae Dodge. Do let us know if you have any accessibility requirements.
https://www.ecologicalcontinuitytrust.org/webinars-events
A Practical Introduction to Soils in Great Britain
[Shuttleworth College]
If you are working in a land-based industry and would like to improve your soil investigation and description skills, this course is for you.
This two-day training course is led by a team of national experts in soil description, mapping and classification. You will learn how soils form, why they differ from one place to another, and why and how they are classified. You will also find out about the key hard-copy and digital sources of information on the soils of England and Wales.
You will learn how to identify and record key soil properties, such as texture and structure, and then be taken into the field to practice your newly-acquired skills. On the second day, you will be able to study a range of different soil types with guidance from the experts.
This course includes a number of presentations, a practical session on soil description and then field visits to demonstrate a range of soils. Delegates will learn about:
This course replaces the current Working with Soil course on ‘Foundation skills in field soil investigation, description and interpretation’ and will become a regular offering under the BSSS Working with Soil training banner.
Food and drink will be provided. (Please specify any dietary requirements under the relevant section in the registration form.)
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If you have booked but would like to cancel for whatever reason, please refer to our Cancellation Policy.
Centennial Celebration and Congress of the IUSS 100 years of soil science - past achievements and future challenges
Invitation from the organizers: Sara Marinari, Giuseppe Corti, Edoardo A.C. Costantini - “The custodian of soil science will celebrate its centennial contribute to the nature and human wellbeing in 2024. The event will also empower the linkages with different disciplines, policy makers, stakeholders, institutions, and associations to effectively address civil society needs within agriculture, forestry, environment, urban planning, energy, education, and other societal issues. The celebration will occur on May 19th and will be followed by two intense days of congress, with plenary and parallel scientific sessions. Both soil scientists and specialists from other disciplines will participate to each session, focusing on past achievements and future challenges. The congress will be followed by technical/scientific excursions that will range from short local to long trips, spanning from Alps to Sicily. A pre-congress visit to Villa Lubin in Rome, the historical place where the IUSS was founded, is scheduled on May 18th. We are looking forward to welcoming you to Italy”.
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The programme group chair and officers will build the session programme from the session proposals. The programme group chair may also suggest to merge proposed sessions that are similar.
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Find out more about the event here - centennialiuss2024.org