In light of the coronavirus outbreak, the Spring School for 2020 has been definitely cancelled.
We took into consideration the health and well-being of our international participants as well as the uncertainty about the end of the corona crisis, and the international and local measures that may still be in place in the coming months.
The EU_H2020 CIRCASA project held their second annual meeting, 'Towards an International Research Consortium on agricultural soil carbon sequestration' , in Wageningen (March 2020).
New paper by Liu Y, Heuvelink GBM, Bai Z, He P, Xu X, Ma J and Masiliūnas D on 'Space-time statistical analysis and modelling of nitrogen use efficiency indicators at provincial scale in China' published in European Journal of Agronomy.
New paper by Aitkenhead MJ, Poggio L, Wardell-Johnson D, Coull MC, Rivington M, Black HIJ, Yacob G, Boke S and Habte M on 'Estimating soil properties from smartphone imagery in Ethiopia' in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.
New Geoderma paper on 'Assessing countrywide soil organic carbon stock using hybrid machine learning modelling and legacy soil data in Cameroon', by Francis B.T. Silatsaa, Martin Yemefack, Fritz O. Tabi , Gerard B.M. Heuvelink and Johan G.B. Leenaars.
New paper in Geoderma on 'Extrapolation of a structural equation model for digital soil mapping ' by Angelini et al, with contributions from our colleagues Bas Kempen and Gerard Heuvelink.
New paper on 'Rescue and renewal of legacy soil resource inventories in Iran as an input to digital soil mapping' in Geoderma Regional by Rasaei et al., including our guest researcher David Rossiter.
The Climate Food and Farming Network (CLIFF) and the Global Research Alliance (GRA) awards 54 PhD fellowships for 2021 on the measurement and management of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon storage in agricultural systems. Two opportunities are available at ISRIC: #1 - 'Advances in global mapping of soil carbon sequestration potential and links with drought conditions' and, #32 - 'Improved soil carbon mapping in sub-Saharan Africa to support soil fertility and climate mitigation studies.
New paper in Geoderma Regional on ‘Impressions of digital soil maps: The good, the not so good, and making them ever better’ by Dominique Arrouays and others, including our colleague Laura Poggio.
New paper in Earth System Data Science on ‘Standardised soil profile data to support global mapping and modelling’ by our colleagues Niels Batjes, Eloi Ribeiro and Ad van Oostrum (https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-299-2020).
