New WRB Working Group homepage launched

_{Figure 1: Annual field workshops are organized for testing and further development of the WRB system (image: WRB working group in Romania, 2018).}

The  World Reference Base for soil resources (WRB) Working Group has launched a new website: https://wrb.isric.org/

The World Reference Base (WRB) is an international system for classification of soils and is designed to cater for naming any soil in the world. The WRB Working Group operates under IUSS Commission  1.4 - Soil classification.

The WRB is taught at universities in classes about soil geography and is used by students and researchers to identify soils in the field. WRB is used for mapping and naming soils and for correlation with national systems and international exchange and publications. The new website serves these user groups with information and documents from the WRB Working Group.

Since the initiation in 1994 of the Working Group, annual field tours, meetings and symposia have been organized in support of the development of the WRB soil classification system. ISRIC – World Soil Information, that contributes to the working group in the person of Stephan Mantel (vice-chair of the Working Group), hosts the new homepage of the Working Group that will be a main resource for WRB classification. On wrb.isric.org you can find:

• Documents, publications and teaching materials
• Information about the working group (leadership and history)
• Information on field workshops (upcoming and past)
• Links to relevant sources on WRB

The Working Group will continue to build and add to these pages. Moreover, you will find announcements of the planned WRB field tours and past field tours. Please visit https://wrb.isric.org/ for information, documents, images and publications.