SSS1.2 – Soil Science Education (co-organized)

SSS1.4 – Soil, Art, Culture, and History

SSS1.5 – Environment science, public perception, stakeholders and policy makers

SSS1.6 – European Environmental Policies and Sustainability (co-organized)

SSS1.7 – “Lighthouse” examples, illustrating soil relevance for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) (co-organized) | PICO

SSS2.1 – Land Degradation and Development. A State-of-the-Art

SSS2.3 – The use of check dams for soil restoration at watershed level: resolving or generating hydrological, soil and environmental problems? (co-organized)

SSS2.4 – Gully and rill erosion: recent research progress

SSS2.5 – Connectivity in hydrology and sediment dynamics: concepts, measuring, modelling, indices and societal implications (co-organized)

SSS2.8 – Soil quality assessment in degraded ecosystems: Global advances and challenges (co-organized) | PICO

SSS2.10 – Soils of marginal lands – definition, assessment and land use options

SSS2.16 – Agricultural terraces of the world. Their pedological, geomorphological and hydrological role (co-organized) | PICO

SSS2.18 – New challanges in Land Degradation and Restoration research

SSS2.20 – Innovation and new challenges in sharing research results and knowledge of soil and water resources: experiences on strategic thinking, technologies and collaborative work. (co-organized) | PICO

SSS2.22 – Advances and gaps in understanding, predicting and preventing hydrological and erosional risks in fire-affected watersheds. (co-organized)

SSS2.23 – Salt affected soils: monitoring, risk assessment and effects on plants

SSS3.1 – DEMs, LEMs and PalaeoDEMs: latest developments in Geosciences | PICO

SSS3.4 – Geomorphological and (palaeo-)pedological records of natural environmental factors and human impact

SSS3.5 – Geochemical mapping at all scales: evidence from soil, sediment, water and plants

SSS4.5 – Plant-soil-microbial interactions under global change (co-organized)

SSS4.7 – Soil biodiversity in natural and agricultural ecosystems

SSS4.8 – Carbon and nutrient cycling in biological activity hot spots in soil

SSS4.9 – Soil and human health | PICO

SSS4.11 – Role of soil biota in soil functioning and ecosystem service provision

SSS4.16 – Unravelling soil-biota interactions using micro-scale analyses | PICO

SSS4.17 – Biological soil crusts: their history, diversity, functional roles and threats (co-organized) | PICO

SSS5.4 – Future challenges in biochar research

SSS5.6 – Peatlands and wetlands in the tropics and beyond: biogeochemistry, ecology, and carbon cycle

SSS5.12 – Chemistry of exogenous and native soil organic matter: accrual, mineralization, stabilization and management

SSS5.16 – Designing biochars to react with N species and mechanisms of nutrient enhancement

SSS5.17 – General Soil Chemistry: from basic research to environmental aspects to food security

SSS6.2 – Soil organic matter turnover: from molecules to ecosystems and back again (co-organized)

SSS6.5 – Natural and pyrogenic organic carbon and nitrogen in soils: Function, fate, analytical challenges and how this relates to the concept of humic substances (co-organized) | PICO

SSS6.7 – Lateral transport of soil organic carbon: the role of erosion/deposition, land use changes, forest fires and other disturbances (co-organized) | PICO

SSS6.8 – The impact of soil organic carbon loss on environmental services (co-organized)

SSS7.2 – Preferential flow and mass transfers in vadose zone (co-organized)

SSS7.3 – Challenges in soil physics research (co-organized)

SSS7.4 – Production and transport of gases in the soil: measurements and modelling (co-organized) | PICO

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

SSS7.7 – Multi-scale structure-property relationships for porous media: how pore-scale processes can help describe flow and transport at the larger scale? (co-organized)

SSS7.8 – The impact of pesticides in life, water, sediment, air and soil resources (co-organized)

SSS7.10 – Innovative methods for characterizing physical soil properties and monitoring soil moisture (co-organized) | PICO

SSS7.12 – Microenvironments in soils and sediments - linking concepts, experiments and models (co-organized)

SSS8.2 – Emerging pollutants and soil degradation: chemical behavior and biological approaches for soil restoration

SSS8.3 – Interdisciplinary approaches to improve bioremediation and biomining techniques and reduce soil pollution | PICO

SSS8.4 – Progress in remediation for soils polluted by potentially toxic elements

SSS8.5 – Restoration of dryland ecosystems: biogeochemistry, ecohydrology and soil processes, and current rehabilitation practices

SSS8.7 – Novel sorbent materials for environmental remediation | PICO

SSS9.2 – Soil quality and health in agriculture areas: impact of current and novel management practices

SSS9.3 – Fire impacts on the Ecosystems (including SSS Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture)

SSS9.4 – Threats and potentials in urban and peri-urban areas: soil and water degradation, ecosystem services and risk management (co-organized)

SSS9.5 – Landslide early warning systems: monitoring systems, rainfall thresholds, warning models, performance evaluation and risk perception. (co-organized)

SSS9.7 – Soil Erosion, Land Use and Climate Change: mapping, measuring, modelling, and societal challenges (co-organized)

SSS9.8 – Coevolution of soils, landforms and vegetation: patterns, feedbacks and ecosystem stability thresholds (co-organized)

SSS9.13 – Soils in cold-climate regions (co-organized)

SSS9.14 – Carbon sequestration in soils for mitigation, adaptation and food security: making the ‘4 per 1000’ goal a reality and studying soils based negative emissions technologies (NETs) (co-organized)

SSS9.15 – Impact of agriculture on soil ecosystem services

SSS9.17 – Land Use and Climate Change Impact on Grasslands and Wetlands: a Pedological, Hydrological, Biological and Geomorphological Approach (co-organized)

SSS9.19 – Fate of pollutants in soil and water/sediment systems | PICO

SSS9.20 – Water repellency of soil, biological and manmade materials: origin, assessment and implications (co-organized)

SSS9.21 – Nature-based solutions in land and water management for hydro-meteorological risk reduction and climate change adaptation

SSS10.1 – The impact of grazing on land degradation: Identifying problems, causes and solutions from a global perspective

SSS10.2 – Organic Farming and Soil management

SSS10.5 – Novel soil management approaches to address the impact of agriculture on the soil system: practice and education | PICO

SSS10.6 – Irrigated agriculture: Natural Resources Management for the sustainability of the terrestrial ecosystem maintaining productivity (co-organized)

SSS10.7 – Environmental processes and land managements that influence vineyard ecosystem and wine quality | PICO

SSS10.8 – Soil Erosion, hydrological processes and biological degradation in worldwide vineyards (co-organized) | PICO

SSS10.12 – Conservation of land resources and land tenure systems (co-organized)

SSS11.4 – Complexity and non-linearity in soils (co-organized)

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

SSS11.6 – Integrating Soil Systems Ecology into biogeochemical models (co-organized) | PICO

SSS12.1 – Advancing proxies in the critical zone for deciphering time-dependent processes in weathering profile and natural and anthropognenic fingerprinting of water (sponsored by European Association of Geochemistry) (co-organized)

SSS12.2 – Experiments in Earth Surface Processes - From understanding to quantification (co-organized)

SSS12.5 – Rainfall simulators as a tool in Soil Science, Geomorphology and Hydrology research and teaching (co-organized)

SSS12.6 – Unmanned Aerial Systems: Platforms, Sensors and Applications in Soil, Agriculture and Geosciences (co-organized) | PICO

SSS12.8 – Soil mapping, classification, and process modelling for sustainability

SSS12.11 – Learning from spatial data: unveiling the geo-environment through quantitative approaches (co-organized)

SSS12.13 – Innovative analytical methods and hyphenated techniques in soil analysis (co-organized) | PICO