News Archive
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Green Water Credits at World Water Week in Stockholm. Key note presentation in Workshop 3: Green and Blue Water in a Scarcity Situation PDF (August 18, 2009) |
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Profile descriptions for Africa, held in the ISRIC Soil Information Sytem (ISIS), can now be queried on-line (July 23, 2009)
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ISRIC - World Soil Information organised a meeting to discuss scientific challenges in soil science; the presentations are available on-line PDF1, PDF2 ,PDF3, PDF4, PDF5 (June 15, 2009) |
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Carbon Benefits Project (CBP) - This GEF co-funded project, implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), will provide scientifically rigorous, cost-effective tools to establish the carbon benefits of sutainable land management interventions in terms of protected or enhanced carbon stocks and reduced greenhouse-gas emmissions more ... (May 2009) |
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GlobalSoilMap.net - A global consortium of scientists is collaborating to make a new digital soil map of the world using state-of-the-art and emerging technologies. The program, coordinated by ISRIC - World Soil Information, will be inaugurated in New York, 17th February 2009 more ... (Feb. 2009)
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AfricaSoils.net - The African part of the GlobalSoilMap.net has been launched in Nairobi on 13th January 2009. This large collaborative effort, involving JRC, CSIRO, NRCS, ISSAS, CIAT and EMBRAPA, is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) more ... (Jan. 2009)
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The Board has appointed Dr Ir Prem S. Bindraban MBA to the position of Director ISRIC – World Soil Information, starting April 1st 2009 more ... (Feb. 2009) |
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ISRIC loses a long-time friend, Dr Rex Asiamah (1946 - 2009) more ... (Feb. 2009)
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New datasets: Soil and Terrain databases for Argentina, Cuba, Senegal and The Gambia, South Africa, and Tunisia, compiled in the framework programme of the Global Assessment of Land Degradation (GLADA), can be accessed here. (Feb. 2009)
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Hans van Baren, our former Deputy-Director, colleague and friend, passed away on the 27th of January 2009 obituary ... |
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New dataset: Version 3.1 of the ISRIC-WISE Harmonized Soil Profile Dataset, containing selected site and attribute data for some 10,250 globally distributed profiles, can be accessed here and through the GMCD Portal for the WDC (Jan. 2009)
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Roel Oldeman, our former Director and colleague, passed away suddenly on 24th November 2008 obituary ...
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Hans van Baren has been knighted (Ridder in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau) for his contributions to ISRIC, the ISSS/IUSS, voluntary work for Wageningen municipality, and many other activities (20 Nov. 2008)
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WDC Portal - Metadata for two new soil data sets have been added to the World Data Center Portal on the Global Change Master Directory (Nov. 2008) more ...
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New dataset - A harmonized set of soil parameter estimates been developed for Senegal and The Gambia, using a 1:1 million scale Soil and Terrain Database (SOTER) and taxotransfer procedures based on soil profiles held in the ISRIC-WISE database (Nov. 2008) more ...
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25 years of cooperation with the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISSCAS) - from the establishment of soil monolith collections (PDF) in 1983 to the current collaboration in the EU FP7-funded e-SOTER project (Sept. 2008) |
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New project - e-SOTER project (Sept. 08 - Feb. 2012) is a European contribution for a global soil observing system as part of the Global Earth Observing System of System (GEOSS). The kick-off meeting has been held at ISRIC, Wageningen, from 11 to 12 September, 2008 more ... (Sept. 2008)
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GLADA - Under the GEF-UNEP-FAO program Land Degradation in Drylands (LADA), ISRIC and WUR Centre for Geo-information have been carrying out the Global Assessment of Land Degradation and Improvement based on 23 years of fortnightly NDVI data. The preliminary findings reveal that some 24% of the global land area is degrading, hardly overlap with GLASOD, which indicated that 15% of the land surface was degraded; about 1.5 billion people depend directly on the degrading areas; almost one fifth of degrading land is cropland. But the news is not all bad - some 16% of the land area shows improvement more.... (Sept. 2008)
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National Geographic pays special attention to the importance of soils, with a reference to ISRIC's former Director Dr Wim Sombroek and his innovative research on Terra Preta and global land degradation more.... (Sept. 2008)
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ISRIC - World Soil Information Database – This on-line database of ISRIC's grey literature and related map holdings now contains over 3800 (zoomable) maps and some 1100 full text reports; these materials can be accessed, and downloaded, through the ISRIC- World Soil Information Database (Sept. 2008 )
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Publication - Digital Soil Mapping with Limited Data; Hartemink AE, McBratney A, Mendonça-Santos, Maria de Lourdes (Eds.)The book focuses on digital soil mapping methodologies and applications for areas where data are limited
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Harmonized World Soil Database - A 30 arc-second raster database that combines regional and national updates of soil information worldwide (SOTER, ESD, Soil Map of China, WISE) with the information contained within the 1:5 000 000 scale FAO-UNESCO Soil Map of the World more.... (July 2008)
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Report of Activities 2007 - Lists highlights of the year in our three fields of activity - education and public information under the World Soil Museum; soil standards, documentation and dissemination under the World Data Centre for Soils; and applied research on land and water resources and their management more ... (May 2008) |
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International Year of Planet Earth - ISRIC participated in the global launch event of the International Year of Planet Earth on 12-13 February 2008, in Paris. ISRIC, together with the IUSS, is a founding partner and has a seat on the board (Dr David Dent); Dr Alfred Hartemink leads the soil science implementation team. A brochure is available (in English, French, Portuguese, Romanian and Japanese) as well as an A4 flyer (Feb. 2008)
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Charles A. Black award - ISRIC Honorary Fellow Pedro Sanchez, Columbia University, has been named the 2008 recipient of the Charles A. Black award for his work on tropical soils and integrated natural resource management. He will receive the honour at the Council for Agricultural Science & Technology board meeting (Jan. 2008 )
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ISRIC contributes to AAAS symposium in Boston - A special symposium at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston focuses on soil protection for sustainable well-being (16 Feb. 2008). The symposium is organised by Dr Luca Montanarella, head of the soil team of EU-JRC in Italy (Jan. 2008 )
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GLOBE program - ISRIC contributed to the module on Soil of the "Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment" program (GLOBE; in Dutch) (Jan. 2008 )
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ISRIC - World Soil Information Database – Grey literature and related map holdings for three ACP countries - Jamaica, Mozambique and Senegal - have been scanned and added to our collection of on-line materials; they can be accessed through the ISRIC- World Soil Information Database (Nov. 2007 )
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GEO-4 - 25 October 2007 was the official launch of UNEP's 4th Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-4) at the United Nations Headquarters, New York .
ISRIC - World Soil Information is the international collaborating institute of UNEP and for the GEO4 report ISRIC coordinated the editing of Chapter 3 - Land (Oct. 2007) more … |
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WDC - The WDC for Soils pages have been updated. Our digital datasets are being characterized in the World Data Centers Portal of the Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) using uniform metadata (Sept . 2007) more … |
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ISRIC Library - Duplicate books have been donated to the Royal University of Agriculture in Cambodia as a sequel to the Cambodia project (July 2007) |
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Publication - The Report of Activities for 2006 lists highlights of the year in our three fields of activity - education and public information under the World Soil Museum; soil standards, documentation and dissemination under the World Data Centre for Soils; and applied research on land and water resources and their management (June 2007) |
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Production of Soil Atlas - ISRIC has embarked, in collaboration with the Institute for Environment and Sustainability of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, the European Soil Bureau Network, FAO and the African Soil Science Society, on the production of a Soil Atlas of Africa (May 2007) more ... |
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New dataset - A harmonized set of soil parameter estimates been developed for Central Africa, comprising Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, using a 1:2 million scale Soil and Terrain Database (SOTER) and taxotransfer procedures based on soil profiles held in the WISE database (May 2007) more ...
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New dataset - Primary SOTER database for the DR of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi at an average scale of 1:2 M (SOTERCAF) (May 2007) more ...
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ISRIC - World Soil Information Database – The data handling system has been improved in collaboration with Wageningen UR Library. New features include: geographic searches using Google maps; on-line access to over 3500 zoomable and down-loadable maps; a selection of PDFs on-line; and a list of links related to soil science (May 2007) more … |
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Publication - This special issue on 'Advances in airborne electromagnetics and remote sensing in agro-ecosystems' of the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation includes papers presented at a symposium hosted by ISRIC–World Soil Information in Wageningen in 2004 (Apr. 2007) |
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Publication - This special issue of Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment present findings of the Global Environment Facility co-financed project ‘Assessment of soil organic carbon stocks and change at national scale’, in which ISRIC–World Soil Information was a partner (Apr. 2007) |
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Project - Desertification Mitigation and Remediation of Land (DESIRE) - EU-funded project, co-ordinated by Alterra, aimed at establishing promising alternative land use and management conservation strategies in selected degradation and desertification hotspots around the world (Jan. 2007) |
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ISRIC Library - Duplicate books have been donated to the Agronomy Library of the National University at Butare in the framework of the NUFFIC Rwanda Project (Jan. 2007) more ... |
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Collaboration Agreement - ISRIC - World Soil Information and JRC-IES - Institute for Environment and Sustainability signed a Collaborative Agreement (Dec. 2006) |
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Project Initiative - A global consortium is working on a proposal towards the Global Digital Soil Properties Map (Dec. 2006) more …
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ISRIC Publications - We are gradually scanning our publications to make them available on-line in PDF format. Recent additions include our Technical Papers and Soil Briefs describing soils held in our World Soil Reference Collection (ISIS) (Nov. 2006)
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Q&A Services - Knowledge of information sources is a vital part of an effective question and answer service. Partners from CTA's ACP Question-And-Answer Service visited our premises to be informed about ISRIC's soil resources and Q&A services (Oct. 2006) more ...
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Appointment - Dr Alfred Hartemink has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Geoderma. He has been editorial board member since 1998 and book review editor of the journal since 1999 (Sept. 2006).
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Publication - Proceedings of inception workshop on improved natural resource management held in Rangamati, Bangladesh (Sept. 2006) more ...
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Project - Global Assessment of Land Degradation and Improvement (GLADA) - Project, co-ordinated by ISRIC and Wageningen UR Centre for Geo Information, carried out for the GEF/UNEP/FAO project on Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (July 2006) |
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Publication - World Reference Base for Soil Resources 2006 (WRB): A framework for international classification, correlation and communication (July 2006) PDF
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Publication - Invasion of Piper aduncum in the shifting cultivation systems of Papua New Guinea (June 2006) more ...
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ISRIC's 40th anniversary - Seminar on World Soil Issues and Sustainable Development: an agenda for action (9 March 2006) more ...
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ISRIC African and Asian Soil Maps on-line - In a joint project with the EU Institute of Environment and Sustainability (IES) in Italy, the digitalization of African, Asian, North American, Latin American, Caribbean, and European Soil Maps under the EuDASM (European Digital Archive of Soil Maps) programme has been completed and put on-line. A DVD with the maps has been released during the 7th Conference of Parties of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification at Nairobi, Kenya (October 2005).
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ISRIC and the Year of Planet Earth - The International Union of Geosciences (IUGS) has taken the initiative to proclaim an International Year of Planet Earth 2007 - 2008 with the subtitle Earth Sciences for Society. It will focus on the relationship between humankind and Planet Earth, and show that geoscientists are key players in creating a balanced, sustainable future for both. The International Year will be proclaimed through the United Nations. It has also been supported by IUGS's sister organisations, including the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS). A special brochure has been devoted to soils: “Soil – Earth's living skin” PDF
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Project - Green Water Credits - Proof-of-concept of a global mechanism to pay rainfed land users for water management activities, supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) (July 2005) |
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ISRIC and IFAD presented a side event at the FAO, Netherlands conference "Water for Food and Ecosystems: Make it happen!" (January 2005) more ...
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Special collections - ISRIC – World Soil Information now houses the Jongerius – Stiboka collection (20 August 2004), comprising some 6 000 thin sections and blocks mainly from the Dutch and European soils and sediments. The collection has been established by the late A. Jongerius, former Head of the Department of Micropedology and Mineralogy of the Dutch Soil Survey Institute (Stiboka, Wageningen) and further expanded by M. Kooistra. Together with ISRIC’s other micromorphological collections, it provides an enormous resource for microscopical studies of soils from around the world.
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