SSS0.1 – Teaching on Earth Sciences

SSS0.3 – Deciphering time-dependent processes in soil and weathering profile evolution

SSS0.5 – Soils in Mountain, Boreal and Polar Environments

SSS0.7 – Soils in fragile environments: challenges and opportunities for soil and water conservation for sustainable land and water management

SSS0.9 – Soils of the world: from natural to urban soils

SSS0.30 – Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Soil Systems: Monitoring, Modeling and Characterization of Soil Water Contents and coupled biogeochemical properties

SSS1.1 – Bringing Soil Science to the Field

SSS1.3 – Get immersed in the Soil Sciences: the first community of avatars in the EGU Assembly 2015!

SSS2.1 – Soil science and environmental issues today

SSS2.5 – Agricultural terraces of the world. Their pedological, geomorphological and hydrological role (co-organized)

SSS2.8 – Connectivity in hydrology and sediment dynamics: concepts, models, experiments and societal implications (co-organized)

SSS2.9 – Seeking a better understanding of gully erosion (co-organized)

SSS2.12 – Role of vegetation in soil conservation and hydrological hazards management (co-organized)

SSS2.15 – Optimizing the impact of science: Translational research and stakeholder engagement to identify sustainable land management based adaptation for challenges posed by environmental change

SSS3.3 – Soil as a Record of the Past (SRP): Landscape evolution by natural and cultural processes

SSS4.1 – Imaging, visualization and quantitative analysis of heterogeneity, water flow and life in soil and the rhizosphere (co-organized)

SSS4.2 – Biological Soil Crusts in the soil system: can they represent a rehabilitation tool?

SSS4.4 – The role of soil fauna in key ecosystem processes.

SSS4.8 – Soil function, diversity and hotspots of microbial activity

SSS4.14 – Microbial community composition, growth and activity in soil: environmental controls and functional contributions

SSS4.16 – Soil priming effects: abiotic control on biotic cycles under climate change

SSS4.20 – Insights into phosphorus biogeochemistry from soils and aquatic systems (co-organized)

SSS5.2 – Mechanisms and models of soil organic matter stabilization, mineralization and greenhouse gas emissions

SSS5.5 – Soil organic matter amendments: impacts, benefits, and risks

SSS5.10 – Future challenges in biochar research

SSS6.2 – The soil system under global change: impacts on the biogeochemical cycles

SSS6.3 – Biogeochemical processes in terrestrial ecosystems: New methodological perspectives to trace organic matter cycling and transformation in soils, sediments and the liquid phase

SSS6.4 – Land use and land management impacts on soil organic carbon: From process understanding to soil management

SSS6.5 – Biogeochemical cycles in hydromorphic and agro-forestal soils

SSS7.2 – Soil water relationships and water repellency: current knowledge and future insights

SSS7.3 – Soil moisture monitoring and observational data management for modeling soil ecohydrologic processes across different scales of predictions.

SSS7.4 – Dynamic soil properties for understanding flow and transport in the landscape (co-organized)

SSS7.5 – Understanding biological and geological sources of soil CO2 and the principles of gas transport through the soil matrix to understand soil CO2 effluxes

SSS7.6 – Soil water Infiltration. Measurements, assessment and modeling (co-organized)

SSS8.1 – Novel sorbent materials for environmental remediation

SSS8.3 – Remediation of polluted soils

SSS8.4 – Understanding rhizosphere processes and efficacy controls to enhance phytomining and reduce pollution of agricultural lands

SSS9.2 – Past and Present post-fire environments. The complex interaction among ash, soils, vegetation recovery and Human intervention. (co-organized)

SSS9.3 – The impact of grazing on soil, landforms, water and biota resources (co-organized)

SSS9.4 – Soil threats & Ecosystem Services

SSS9.7 – Achieving a sustainable outcome of mining and reclamation through a combination of process understanding and novel approaches of utilisation of mineral resources

SSS9.9 – Instrumented Catchments and Demonstration Areas: the scientific and social impact of research throught experiments and modelling about water and soil

SSS9.10 – Coevolution of soils, landforms and vegetation: patterns, feedbacks and ecosystem stability thresholds. (co-organized)

SSS9.11 – Geoheritage, Geodiversity and Landscapes: a key issue for present and future studies (co-organized)

SSS9.12 – Geosciences and wine: the environmental processes that regulate the terroir effect in space and time

SSS9.18 – Geosciences in industrially affected environments – challenges and multidisciplinary approaches (co-organized) | PICO

SSS9.21 – Soil Erosion, Land Use and Climate Change: mapping, measuring, modelling, and societal challenges (co-organized)

SSS10.1 – Organic farming and Soil management

SSS10.2 – Soil environmental functions and land quality evaluation for land-use optimization

SSS10.4 – Fluxes through the unsaturated zone: Irrigation efficiency, groundwater recharge and groundwater contribution to the water balance (co-organized)

SSS10.8 – Irrigated Agriculture: Natural Resources Management for the Sustainability of the Ecosystem Maintaining Productivity (co-organized)

SSS11.3 – Statistical, computational and visualization tools for assessing and communicating soil complexity and variability

SSS11.5 – Communication of uncertain information in earth sciences: data, models and visualization (co-organized)

SSS12.2 – Rainfall simulators as a tool in Soil Science, Geomorphology and Hydrology research and teaching (co-organized)

SSS12.3 – Soil mapping and modelling for sustainable land use management

SSS12.6 – Large-extent digital soil mapping: challenges and opportunities in delivering high-resolution soil information

SSS12.9 – Visible and infrared spectroscopy in soil science – current status and future challenges | PICO

SSS12.10 – Soil and sediment tracing techniques for understanding environmental processes | PICO

SSS12.11 – Platforms, Sensors and Applications with Unmanned Aerial Systems in the geosciences (co-organized) | PICO