On 19 May, PhD candidate Yingxia Liu successfully defended her thesis about statistical analysis and modelling of crop yield and nitrogen use efficiency in China. Yingxia’s research was co-supported by WUR, ISRIC and CAAS.

Discover the beauty and diversity of soil, the living skin of the Earth, in the World Soil Museum. Hosted by ISRIC – World Soil Information, the museum brings the importance of soil to life.

ISRIC – World Soil Information was a founding member of the WOCAT Network in 1992 and recently we signed a renewal agreement to continue our support in the network’s 30th anniversary year.

SoilGrids is ISRIC – World Soil Information’s flagship system for global digital soil mapping. Every year, thousands of people access these open-access maps and download them for their own use and we want to know: how is SoilGrids working for you?

In February and March 2022, the World Soil Museum hosted a four-part online series called “Peatland Exchanges.” The series was initiated by the museum’s artist-in-residence Kate Foster in partnership with Wageningen University & Research’s Home Turf Project and WetFutures.

From 15 to 22 February 2022, ISRIC facilitated a digital soil mapping workshop for seven scientists from the geological surveys of Norway, Sweden and Finland. The workshop focused on mapping the occurrence of acid sulfate soils in these countries and is part of the “HazArctic – Geo-Bio Hazards in the Arctic Region” project.

to better serve the Land and Earth System Modelling community that typically works at coarser resolution than 250 meters (m), ISRIC released an aggregated SoilGrids product at resolutions of 1000 m and 5000 m. The mean predictions were aggregated at the corresponding coarser resolution.

On Tuesday, 25 January a new project, Land Soil Crop Information Services (LSC Hubs), to support climate-smart agriculture in Ethiopia, Kenya and Rwanda held its public launch event online.

A new open-access field work tool for soil description is now available through ISRIC – World Soil Information: Soil Description DevTool. This tool is for people doing field work who will describe soils using the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 2006 Guidelines for Soil Description.

ISRIC guest researcher Ad van Oostrum together with Gerben Bakker of Wageningen Environmental Research, presented results from a joint research project on designing porous reference samples for calibrating water retention curve measurements.