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
Breakout Session A3: Implementing Open Science in EJP SOIL
Anna Besse-Lototskaya & Maria Fantappiè
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
Breakout Session B1: Effectiveness of soil management strategies for mitigation of N2O emissions in European arable land: A meta-analysis
Elena Valkama
Breakout Session B1: The effect of conservation agriculture interventions on greenhouse gas emissions in European temperate systems
Andrew Gregory
Breakout Session B1: No net carbon sequestration by willow on a cultivated peat soil
Henri Honkanen
Breakout Session B1: C-arouNd: Refining Soil Conservation and Regenerative Practices to Enhance Carbon Sequestration and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Mellissa Ananias Soler da Silva
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: Economic, soil health and environmental impacts of use of biobased fertilizers at farm level in the EU
John Helming
Breakout Session B2: Bottom-up dialogue with local actors of biochar and digestate value chains in Italy
Irene Criscuoli
Breakout Session B2: Renewable horticultural substrates as source of external organic matter: the link between circular horticulture and soil friendly practices
Bart Vandecasteele
Breakout Session B2: Soil Organic Carbon in farm level economic models: data needs for considering local specific contextual factors
Walter Rossi Cervi
B3 - Indicators for soilecosystem services
Breakout Session B3: Assessment of temporal dynamics of soil microbial biodiversity
Sara Del Duca
Breakout Session B3: Recommended indicators to assess soil health proposal from EJP SOIL
Antonio Bispo
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
Breakout Session C1: Modelling belowground C inputs in agricultural soils key processes and current limitations
Daniel Rasse
C2 - Soil biodiversity & ecosystem services
Breakout Session C2: Microbial Carbon Use Efficiency of Plant Root Exudates Depends on the Substrate and Relative Nitrogen Availability
Koyama Takuma
Breakout Session C2: Functional and taxonomic microbial diversity profiling across soil depth in a diversified cover cropping system in the Netherlands
Maria-Franca Dekkers
Breakout Session C2: Assessing the Influence of Long-term Agroecological Practices on Soil Microbial Functional Diversity and Metabolic Activity
Arman Shamshitov
Breakout Session C2: Effect of agroecological intensification on root mycorrhization, soil aggregate dimension and related C content by SEM-EDS
Alessandra Trinchera
Breakout Session C2: Soil nitrogen pool dynamics in an agroecological gradient
Antonio Rodríguez
C3 - Sustainable soil management
Breakout Session C3: Buffer zone efficiency under ploughing, direct drilling and grazing in boreal conditions
Jaana Uusi-Kämppä
Breakout Session C3: Predicting soil carbon removal by erosion in hillslope environments by erosion-deposition modelling could improve C cycle assessment
Chiara Piccini
Breakout Session C3: SCALE – Managing Sediment Connectivity in Agricultural Landscapes for reducing water Erosion impacts
Lisbeth Johannsen
Breakout Session C3: SoilX: Soil management impacts on soil structural properties in ten European long-term experiments
Olivier Heller
Breakout Session C3: Soil compaction risk under climate change: an analysis for different pedoclimatic zones in Europe
Mathieu Lamandé
C4 - Innovation and methods for data acquisition
Breakout Session C4: Effects of Vegetative Covers on Soil Properties in Semi-Arid Areas: Insights from the SANCHOSTHIRST Project
Maria Jose Marques
Breakout Session C4: PROBEFIELD presentation: In-situ measurement of surface soil reflectance with SoilPRO® apparatus
Luboš Borůvka
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
Ulises Ramon Esparza-Robles
Long-term crop residue management effects on the greenhouse gas fluxes: an Austrian case study
Thursday
Presentations
Harmonisation & Monitoring and Assessment Session
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Sustainable Management Session
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What's next and official closing - Claire Chenu & Anna Besse-Lototskaya
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Other Materials
Report from the Session on the potential implementation of the EU Soil Monitoring Directive proposal in Member States
Sá, C., Brazauskas, G., Besse-Lototskaya, A., & Chenu, C.
