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Cryosol Working Group CWG – IPA/IUSS http://igras.geonet.ru/cwg/. Goals of the Cryosol Working Group for 2004-2008. To develop a Circumpolar Soil Carbon Database that can be used to improve our understanding of soil carbon distribution and dynamics in permafrost-affected soils. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Cryosol Working GroupCWG – IPA/IUSS
http://igras.geonet.ru/cwg/
● To develop a Circumpolar Soil Carbon Database that can be used to improve our understanding of soil carbon distribution and dynamics in permafrost-affected soils.
● To develop an Arctic and Antarctic Soil Databases to enhance the classification and distribution of permafrost soils.
● To evaluate soil carbon dynamics, sink and sources in cold environments (at high latitudes and altitudes).
● To investigate the effect of global change on the genesis and properties of soils with permafrost.
● To cooperate with other IPA and IUSS working groups and to supply them with the data on soil temperature and other soil properties
Goals of the Cryosol Working Group for 2004-2008
Arctic and Antarctic Soil Database: Why?
Soil diversity:
S = f (c, p, r, o, t)
CWG is an open platform to discuss and workout soil related questions in Antarctic and Arctic:
● to database: soil parameter set ● to data quality: criteria for validation ● to data status quo/ monitoring: aggregating existing soil data● to future data collection /monitoring: prepare a manual for
field work
„Manual for Minimum / Maximum Soil Data Set“
Contribution of Cryosol Working Group
Madison 17th Nov. 2004, Rm 205
Potsdam 12-16 June 2005
Arkhangelsk, 3-8th August 2005
Philadelphia IUSS, 9-15 July 2006
CWG next steps
Continue and intensify the exchange during the next different international meetings:
….oooh, an other Confernce!!!
IV International Conference on Cryopedology
CRYOSOLS: GENESIS, ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
Arkhangelsk, Russia, August 1-8, 2005
http://igras.geonet.ru/cwg/
It‘s fine here! Why should we go to Arkhangelsk?
Scientific Programme of Arkhangelsk 2005
Thematic sessions : ● Genesis, classification and terminology of Cryosols ● Soil databases and mapping of Cryosols in Arctic and Antarctic ● Paleocryosols as indicators of the past environments and climate
change ● Carbon pools and functions of Cryosols for the polar ecosystems ● Contamination of soil landscapes in the north ● Cryosols' features and regimes: Change due to different management
Round table: ● Approaches to environmentally oriented interpretations of soil data
in polar regions
Let‘s go and learn from Arctic Cryosols!
IV International Conference on Cryopedology CRYOSOLS:
GENESIS, ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
Arkhangelsk, Russia, August 1-8, 2005
http://igras.geonet.ru/cwg/
Investigation using δ13C-SOM-analysis could help to predict environment and climate change on the sensitive Arctic and Antarctic ecosystems.
…. more diversity in our system!