At ISRIC – World Soil Information we have large global datasets, but often people would like to have data for a smaller area such as a single country. If you are looking for freely accessible, quality-assessed soil data for one or more countries, you can easily search for that using the new GraphQL API linked to the WoSIS (World Soil Information Service) database.

On the surface of Mars, can we call the loose material covering the Red Planet ‘soil’? What are its characteristics compared to Earth’s soil and could it ever host human life? These questions are the basis of a new temporary exhibit at the ISRIC World Soil Museum which begins on Wednesday, September 13 called Red Planet Regolith: All about the fine dust that covers Mars.

_{President of Moldova Maia Sandu visiting the World Soil Museum. Photo credit: Guy Ackermans}

On Tuesday 5 September the ISRIC World Soil Museum was honored to host a very special guest: President of Moldova Maia Sandu. President Sandu visited the museum as part of her visit to Wageningen University & Research (WUR) to explore collaboration on agriculture, food security and climate change.

Next week, Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and ISRIC – World Soil Information are hosting the 2023 Wageningen Soil Conference. From Monday, August 28 – Friday, September 1, the conference takes place on WUR campus and is grouped around four topics: Soil for Society, Advances in Measuring and Modelling Soil Processes, Mapping and Evaluating Soil Functions across Scales, and Soil for Nature-Based Solutions.

You can find ISRIC – World Soil Information staff on the 2023 Wageningen Soil Conference programme at the following times:

Thursday, August 31

_{ISRIC Guest Researcher David G. Rossiter presenting at the 4th Global Soil Security Conference. Credit: Global Soil Security Conference 2023}

In June 2023, the 4th Global Soil Security Conference convened in Seoul, South Korea with more than 400 participants from more than 30 countries. Two representatives from ISRIC – World Soil Information presented at the conference:

ORCaSa partners organised a webinar dedicated to MRV (Monitoring, Reporting & Verification) systems for soil organic carbon (5 July 2023). The aim was to present the MRV system and the approaches and methodologies applied today. The webinar was attended by nearly 70 online participants from all over the world. 

The H2020 Soils4Africa project coordinated by ISRIC participated at the 5th AU–EU Agriculture Ministerial Conference in Rome on 30th June to present recommendations and

ISRIC is dedicated to recruiting the best staff possible for serving the international community with information on the world's soil resources. We invite you to explore the following opportunities to join us as a colleague. 

To strengthen our team, we are hiring an experienced Communication Specialist to further expand our external communication such as our news items, social media accounts, institutional and project websites for ISRIC - World Soil Information, as well as the various platforms in the World Soil Museum. 

_{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/

_{Land Soil Crop Hubs partners gathered in the World Soil Museum in Wageningen, The Netherlands to share ideas for next steps and reflect on project process.}