SESSION 1

09.00 – 09.10  Welcome speech and rules of the meeting
09.10 – 09.25 Speech by the PULS Rector and President of the Soil Science Society of Poland
09.30 – 09.50 Stephan Mantel – Soils of the World. Education in the World Soil Museum
10.00 – 10.20 Ben Harms – The influence of fires on soils in Australia  
10.30 – 10.50  Ines Wagner – “Green Earth”: Recovering Highly Desertified Dryland in Burkina Faso Using Sustainable Bio-Technology
11.00 – 11.20 Undrak-Od Baatar, Ermek Baibagyshov – Humus stock in soils of Central Asia
11.30 – 11.45 Break

SESSION 2

11.45 – 12.05 Iwona Hildebrandt-Radke, Przemysław Makarowicz, Waldemar Spychalski , Zhanna N.Matviishyna,– Contemporary and fossil soils in archaeological research of barrows (West Ukraine)
12.15 – 12.35 Michał Woszczyk – Soils as greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters.
12.45 – 13.05 Cezary Kaźmierowski, Jakub Ceglarek – Possibilities of using VIS–NIR–SWIR reflectance spectroscopy for the quantitative assessment of soil characteristics 
13.15 – 13.35 Monika Jakubus – Soil health. The challenges in COVID – 19 world
13.45 – 14.05 Jean Bernard Diatta – Traditional and Cultural Management of Paddy Soils – Case of Diola Community in Senegal
14.15 Summary and closing of the Conference

SPEAKERS

Stephan Mantel –  Head of World Soil Museum, Wageningen
Ben Harms – Department of Environment and Science, Queensland
Ines Wagner – Blue Horizon SarL. (Luxembourg)
Undrak-Od Baatar – Head of Mongolia Region, Central Asian Soil Science Society
Ermek Baibagyshov – President of Central Asian Soil Science Society
Iwona Hildebrandt-Radke – Anthropocene Research Unit, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Przemysław Makarowicz – Faculty of Archaeology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Zhanna N.Matviishyna, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Geography
Waldemar Spychalski – Department of Soil Science and Land Protection, Poznań University of Life Sciences
Michał Woszczyk – Biogeochemistry Research Group, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Cezary Kaźmierowski – Environmental Remote Sensing and Soil Science Research Unit, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Jakub Ceglarek – Department of Soil Science and Remote Sensing of Soils, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Monika Jakubus – Department of Soil Science and Land Protection, Poznań University of Life Sciences
Jean Bernard Diatta – Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Environmental Biogeochemistry, Poznań University of Life Sciences

Moderator of the event: prof. UPP dr hab. Monika Jakubus
Department of Soil Science and Land Protection, Poznań University of Life Sciences