Annual Science Days 2024
The EJP SOIL Annual Science Days & General Meeting took place from June 10th from 12:00 pm to June 14th
Venue: Artis Centrum Hotels, Vilnius
Scope: Presenting, demonstrating, discussing the EJP SOIL results and output with the goal making them spread over into initiatives and policymaking.
Thank you for fantastic Annual Science Days at LAMMC in Vilnius!
Recordings, slides and posters are now available below. We are still working on getting all material uploaded.
Monday
Presentations
Opening of the event
Claire Chenu - EJP SOIL Coordinator & Anna Besse-Lototskaya - EJP SOIL Co-coordinator.
Soil futures - emerging drivers and needs of soil management and soil services
Katharina Helming - EJP SOIL Advisory Board Chair
Breakout Sessions
A1 - Carbon sequestration at national and European scale & effects of policy and socio-economic factors.
Breakout Session A1 : A first glance at carbon sequestration potentials of agricultral measures at European scale from the CarboSeq Project
Chairs: Muhammad Anjum & Felix Seidel
Breakout Session A1: Effect of anthropogenic soil management for increasing soil organic carbon status in Lithuanian acid soil
Ieva Mockevičienė, Monika Vilkienė, Kristina Amalevičiūtė - Volungė
Breakout Session A1: Assessing soil carbon sequestration in the Netherlands by enhancing a dynamic soil organic carbon turnover model using Earth Observation data
Chantal Hendriks, Jan Peter Lesschen, Wouter Meijninger, Allard De Wit Allard, Gerbert Roerink
Breakout Session A1: The effect of a business-as-usual scenario on the evolution of the soil organic carbon stocks in Flanders’ arable fields
Kaat Mertens
Breakout Session A1: Roadmap for improvement of carbon sequestration in the Netherlands
Jennie Van der Kolk
A2 - Leveraging different approaches in the development of farmer-friendly tools for sustainable soil practices and schemes
Breakout Session A2: More than a Dialogue between actors, seeking the integration of soil-based principles in agroecological systems
Francesco Galioto
Breakout Session A2: Living Labs to support sustainable soil management practices and the implementation of decision-support Tools in Europe
Meriem Jouini
Breakout Session A2: Policy gaps and inconsistencies in addressing agricultural soil health challenges in the EU and Türkiye
Francesca Varia
Breakout Session A2: Enhancing Soil health through values-based business models
Ennio Facq
Breakout Session A2: Identifying farmers’ priorities in soil management for climate adaptation to develop attractive support measures
Mariella Schreiber
Breakout Session A2: Assessing Agri-Environmental Footprints and Pathways to Net-Zero: Insights from ProcessBased and Whole-Farm Models
M. Ibrahim Khalil
Breakout Session A2: Developing a Carbon farming framework supporting Ireland to meet its climate targets.
Saskia Visser
A3 - Publications and open science
Materials Pending
Tuesday
Breakout Sessions
B1 - C-sequestration and trade-offs
Breakout Session B1: Policy measures effectively reduce soil nitrous oxide emissions with minor trade-offs in crop yield
Sophie Zechmeister-Bolternstern
B2 - External organic matters for circular economy
Breakout Session B2: The effects of cattle manure and straw co-digestion on the digestate carbon stability
Elina Tampio
Breakout Session B2: Bottom-up dialogue with local actors of biochar and digestate value chains in Italy
Irene Criscuoli
B3 - Indicators for soilecosystem services
Materials Pending
C1 - C-sequestration, roots & amendments
Breakout Session C1: Using direct analytical pyrolysis (Py-GC/MS) to characterize SOM and explore processes and humification drivers
José A. González-Pérez
Breakout Session C1: Improving the sustainability of arable cropping systems by modifying root traits: a modelling study for winter wheat
Nicholas Jarvis
Breakout Session C1: Cover Crops Affect Pool Specific Soil Organic Carbon in Cropland – a Meta-analysis
Julia Fohrafellner
Breakout Session C1: Climate change adaptation and mitigation potential by variety selection of winter wheat
Fabien Durand-Maniclas
C2 - Soil biodiversity & ecosystem services
Materials Pending
C3 - Sustainable soil management
Materials Pending
C4 - Innovation and methods for data acquisition
Materials Pending
Posters & Poster Pitches
Kaat Mertens
Sensitivity analysis of a Roth-C based model
Antonio Bispo & Claire Chenu
Relevance of the organic carbon to clay ratio as a national soil health indicator
Rafael López-Núñez
Unveiling soil properties from FTIR spectra
Julia Schröder
The Effect of Crop diversification
Merrit Shanskiy & Rihard Reissaar & Annely Kuu
Effects of sheep wool pellets and black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) frass on soil biota & The impact of Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae frass on the abundance and diversity of springtails (Collembola) and on cereal crop yield & The impact of various organic materials in pot experiments on the survival of forest trees
Paloma Sánchez-Argüello
Assessment of the presence of microplastics in compost samples
Thursday
Presentations
Harmonisation & Monitoring and Assessment Session
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Sustainable Management Session
What's next and official closing - Claire Chenu & Anna Besse-Lototskaya
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