Cryosol Working GroupCWG – IPA/IUSS

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● 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

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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

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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!