Support for the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS): Activities of the President

对国际土壤科学联合会（IUSS）的支持：主席的活动

• 批准号: 0420625
• 负责人: Donald Sparks
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Delaware
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-01 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0420625&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; International; Union; Soil; Sciences

Dr. Donald Sparks, University of Delaware, will serve as President of the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS). In this capacity he chairs the IUSS Bureau (the collective name for the IUSS Officers); has oversight of the management of IUSS, including its scientific activities and budget; prepares business for and presides at all Bureau and Council meetings; assists in dissemination of information and publications to members; represents IUSS at various scientific and policy meetings around the world; represents IUSS at the NAS/NRC U.S. Committee on Soil Science meetings; and is the IUSS representative to ICSU. Dr. Sparks will, in particular, provide leadership for the planning, preparations, and convening of the 18th World Congress of Soil Science (WCSS) in July, 2006, in Philadelphia. The IUSS and its Congress will contribute to improved international exchange of information and international coordination for soil sciences research that looks at the biological, geophysical, and geochemical processes in the soil. These processes influence soil and water conservation, soil quality, land degradation, food sufficiency and safety, global carrying capacity, global climatic change, and wetlands protection. The IUSS and its members are interested in and involved in a multitude of research initiatives that are of national and international significance and are directly related to existing and emerging research thrusts. These include key areas as liquid, gas and biologic transport; geobiology; trace gas fluxes; soil microbial ecology; carbon sequestration; molecular environmental science applications to elucidate biogeochemical cycling, speciation, transport and fate of ions, chemicals, and microbes through porous media; surface chemistry in relation to microbe-chemical interactions; vadose zone hydrology; and spatial scaling from molecular to global environments.

特拉华州大学的唐纳德·斯帕克斯博士将担任国际土壤科学联合会（IUSS）主席。 在这方面，他主持了IUSS主席团（IUSS官员的统称）;监督IUSS的管理，包括其科学活动和预算;筹备并主持所有主席团和理事会会议;协助向成员传播信息和出版物;代表IUSS出席世界各地的各种科学和政策会议;在NAS/NRC美国土壤科学委员会会议上代表IUSS;是IUSS在ICSU的代表。 Sparks博士将特别负责2006年7月在费城举行的第18届世界土壤科学大会（WCSS）的规划、筹备和召开。 IUSS及其大会将有助于改善土壤科学研究的国际信息交流和国际协调，这些研究着眼于土壤中的生物，地球物理和地球化学过程。 这些过程影响到水土保持、土壤质量、土地退化、粮食充足和安全、全球承载能力、全球气候变化和湿地保护。 IUSS及其成员感兴趣并参与了许多具有国家和国际意义的研究举措，这些举措与现有和新兴的研究方向直接相关。这些包括关键领域的液体，气体和生物运输;地球生物学;痕量气体通量;土壤微生物生态学;碳封存;分子环境科学应用，以阐明生物地球化学循环，物种形成，运输和命运的离子，化学品和微生物通过多孔介质;表面化学与微生物-化学相互作用;包气带水文学;从分子到全球环境的空间尺度。