Version 0.4 April 2, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Soil health and EU soil policies: the role of the EU Soil Observatory”
• “Machine learning for soil health - Is the horizon the limit? Flaws, potentials and future challenges”
• “Monitoring Soil Health in the framework of the future EU soil directive: lessons learned and recommendations from the EJP SOIL”
• “Optimization of sampling designs for monitoring the soil health indicators”
• “TBC”
• “Soil improvement meets social innovation”
• “Soil spectroscopy as a near real time tool to monitor soil health indicators”
• “Promising Preliminary Spectral prediction of Soil health Indicators in the Soils4Africa Project”
• “An intergenerational Soil Carbon Registry for Europe”
• “The quality paradigm and selecting soil indicators”

We have moved a session around: “SOILCRATES: SOil Innovation Labs: Co-Regenerating And Transforming European Soils” by Ciska Nienhuis, Marjoleine Hanegraaf, Emiel Elferink, Jildou de Raad (April 9, 2025, 5 p.m. → April 9, 2025, 2:15 p.m.)

Version 0.3 April 1, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “What lies beneath: using biodiversity to understand and measure soil health”
• “Pan-European mapping of ponding time as soil health indicator for absence of compaction and structure formation”
• “Advancing In-Situ Soil Health Assessment and Sustainable Land Management through Soil Spectroscopy”
• “Standardized metabarcoding pipeline for soil microbiome analysis on MinION platform.”
• “Soils4Africa: a continent-wide soil information system for monitoring and assessment of soil health in Africa”
• “Advancing Toward Predictive Soil Salinity Mapping Across the EU”
• “Soil Degradation in Europe under Changing Land Use and Climate”
• “Advancing circular agriculture: The Waste4Soil Project for sustainable fertilizer development from food processing residues.”
• “A commercial-scale embodiment of in situ VisNIR reflectance spectroscopy for commercial-scale soil C MRV: The Yard Stick promise made real”
• “Agroforestry for Soil Health”
• “Expanding access to soil data: SoilHive strategy to promote global collaboration”
• “Slakes: a free smartphone application for measuring soil aggregate stability”
• “Creating a business case for soil health in food and ag value chains”
• “Exploring the Ecological Footprint of Technology-Critical Elements: The Case of Neodymium in Soils”
• “Soil health trends in Europe”
• “Automated Machine Learning for soil data: EO-soilmapper”
• “Optimizing nutrient cycling within a soil health assessment framework: A modelling approach”
• “Accessing and using Soil Health Data Cube”
• “Farmer-Led Transformation: Regenerating Soils and Building a Resilient European Food System”
• “SOILCRATES Living Lab Ireland”
• “Spatiotemporal prediction of soil organic carbon density for Europe (2000--2022) in 3D+T and its uncertainty”
• “A cutting-edge molecular tracking technology for microbial-based products used in agriculture”
• “Developing Robust MRV Systems for Carbon Farming: Insights from the MARVIC and Credible Projects”
• “Soil as an asset class”
• “Monitoring Soil Resilience: A Combined STL and Autoencoder Approach to Dynamic SWRC Prediction”
• “Monitoring, reporting and verification of soil health - what can we learn from the soil carbon experience”
• “Effects of soil, climatic, and anthropogenic drivers on the abundance, richness, and diversity of soil microbial communities: A European perspective”
• “Influence of cover crops on the enzymatic activity of vineyards in a semi-arid climate (SANCHOSTHIRST project)”
• “SOILCRATES: SOil Innovation Labs: Co-Regenerating And Transforming European Soils”
• “RapidCrops: A pan-European label dataset for large-scale crop classification”
• “Remote Sensing-Based Framework for Differentiating between Natural and Drained Peatlands in Europe”
• “Soil monitoring: standardised protocols for the assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services [Soil Health and Restoration Evaluation; SHARE protocols]”
• “Fertilize to feed the crop or build soil health?”
• “Unveiling the State and Wishes for Soil Health Education in Europe.”
• “Novel, laboratory-independent device to measure extracellular enzymatic activity in soils”
• “Impacts of reduced tillage in woody crop systems on soil carbon sequestration in surface and subsurface soils under semiarid Mediterranean conditions”
• “Integrated Membrane-Based Treatment of Digestate for Soil Amender Production: A Life Cycle Assessment Approach.”
• “Soil-X-Change - Fostering cross-border knowledge exchange and co-creation on sustainable soil and farm management”
• “Enhancing Nutrient Efficiency: Adsorption and Release Kinetics of Vineyard Prunings Biochar”
• “Towards a Climate-Resilient Production System with the Soil-Plant Digital Twin based on STEMMUS-SCOPE Model”
• “Soil health monitoring of non-agricultural areas – gaps identification”
• “Bridging the Gap: A Multilevel Approach to Soil Health Assessment across Various Land Uses”
• “Effect of cover crop management on enzymatic activity in olive groves and vineyards in Sardinia”
• “Dense temporal multispectral radiometry as a proxy for soil health assesment”
• “Mapping the potential soil water repellency in Denmark”

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Utilizing machine learning models for mapping salt affected soils of Surat and Bharuch, Gujrat, India” by Amresh Chaudhary.

We have moved a session around: “Tracing the Roots of Land Degradation: EO-Based Identification of Climate and Anthropogenic Drivers” by Mustafa Serkan Isik (April 9, 2025, 4 p.m. → April 9, 2025, 4:45 p.m.)

Version 0.2 Dec. 3, 2024

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Exploring key VNIR-SWIR bands for predicting nickel in an urban soil using eXML”
• “Soil water repellency in natural and semi-natural habitats is influenced by carbon and prokaryotic communities”
• “Novel diagnostic tools for studying the dynamics of soil biological properties under different grazing systems”
• “Integrated Multi-Sensor Data Preparation Framework for Climate-Specific Peatland Degradation Monitoring”
• “From conventional to organic: modelling the effects of changes in soil organic carbon on soil hydraulic properties.”
• “Probability based stratified sampling for both mapping and estimating the population parameters of the soil health indicators at field scale”
• “Soil Health governance: tools and methods to enhance soil literacy and facilitate the decision making processes”
• “High resolution soil quality products for Europe”
• “Tracing the Roots of Land Degradation: EO-Based Identification of Climate and Anthropogenic Drivers”
• “Multiple soil map comparison highlights challenges for predicting topsoil organic carbon concentration at national scale”
• “Benchmarking soil organic carbon (SOC) concentration provides more robust soil health assessment than the SOC/clay ratio at European scale”
• “How to use microbial data as soil health indicators – experiences from Denmark”
• “Testing EO products as building blocks for Soil Health Indicators: the AI4SoiHealth pilot site in Boermarke Zijen (Netherlands)”
• “Utilizing machine learning models for mapping salt affected soils of Surat and Bharuch, Gujrat, India”
• “A Physics-Based Spectroscopic Approach for Rapid Estimation of Soil Properties Essential to Soil Health: Particle Size Distribution and Water Retention Curves”

We have moved a session around: “Symbiotic microorganisms as a tool for recovering soil health in heavily polluted sites” by Mario Paniagua-López (April 8, 2025, 3:15 p.m., HugoTECH → April 9, 2025, 2:30 p.m., Expert Room 11).

Version 0.1 Dec. 3, 2024

We released our first schedule!