Soil Science Seminar Series 2019

Mondays, 4.15 – 5.30 p.m., ETH Zurich, Universitätstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich, CHN P12

The series is jointly organized by the following professors of the Department of Environmen-tal Systems Science (D-USYS): S. Dötterl, E. Frossard, R. Kretzschmar, D. Or and J. Six.

30 Sept: Jörg Schnecker, University of Vienna, Austria
The soil carbon pump – Are microbial growth and efficiency fueling soil C se-questration?

14 Oct: David A. Robinson Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Bangor, UK
Soil change, understanding the past to prepare for the future

28 Oct: Angelia Seyfferth, University of Delaware, USA
Linking soil science to food security: Combating As uptake by rice through soil Si management

11 Nov: Richard Bardgett, University of Manchester, UK
Plant-soil interactions in a changing world: patterns, processes, and responses to environmental change

25 Nov: Martijn Bezemer University of Leiden, Netherlands
Linking microbiomes of soils, plants and aboveground insects via plant-soil feedbacks

9 Dec: Alessandro Piccolo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
From the supramolecular structure of soil humus to the structural determination of the soil Humeome

Contact: Charlotte Wüstholz, wuestholz@env.ethz.ch