The International Soil Science Society
announce that the winner of the contest is Lutz Geissler
works to ensure human activity at the
of Freiberg, Germany. His photo masterfully captures a
Earth’s surface does not degrade or geology student investigating mica schists in the Eastern
destroy resources.
Alps, Saulpe, Austria. Other fi nalists include Benjamin
Acevedo Peralta of Desamparados, Costa Rica and Simon
Jones from Pontypridd, United Kingdom.
The International
Geographical Union
(IGU)
www.igu-net.org
I
GU is honoured to join its sister unions as an IYPE
Founding Partner. Th e IGU was established in 1922 to
promote the study of geographical problems, initiate and
research include hazardous physical processes (for exam- and geophysical (IUGG) communities. ILP seeks to coordinate international geographical research, facilitate
ple, earthquakes, landslides, and fl oods), climate change, achieve a fi ne balance between ‘addressing societal needs’, the collection of geographical data among member coun-
and impacts of environmental change on humans. Based such as understanding natural catastrophes, and other tries, and promote international geographical congresses,
on their knowledge of the past, Quaternary scientists es- solid earth processes that aff ect the biosphere, provid- regional and topical conferences, and specialised sympo-
tablish scenarios of future environmental change through ing information for improved resource exploration and sia. Th e IGU adheres to the International Council for Sci-
numerical and analog modeling. Research fostered by environmental protection and “satisfying scientifi c curi- ence (ICSU) and the International Social Science Coun-
INQUA is an important component of international and osity”. Th e Integrated Solid Earth perspective is key to cil (ISSC). Th e IGU’s roles in promoting and sustaining
national global change programs; it provides the baseline the mission of ILP since breakthroughs in the study of IYPE include co-leadership of the IYPE’s Megacities
for understanding environmental change and the role the lithosphere can be achieved only through integration initiative (Professor Frauke Kraas), symposia at its region-
that humans are playing in that change. of imaging and monitoring, reconstruction and process al conferences, the Festival International Géographique,
modeling. and the IGU’s 2008 Congress in Tunis, Tunisia.
International Litho- World Soil
The American
sphere Programme Information (ISRIC)
Geological Institute
(ILP)
www.isric.org
http://sclilp.gfz-potsdam.de (AGI)
www.agiweb.org
A
GI is proud to be the fi rst founding partner of the I
SRIC is a foundation associated with Wageningen
UR, founded in 1966 at the behest of UNESCO. It
International Year of Planet Earth from the United includes the unique World Soil Museum and the ICSU
I
LP aims to elucidate the nature, dynamics, origin and States of America. In support of this important initiative, World Data Centre for Soils, which is custodian of global
evolution of the lithosphere through international, AGI coordinated the Earth Science Week International and regional datasets, as well as land resources maps and
multidisciplinary geoscience research projects and co- Photography Contest to highlight the beauty and pow- reports, for many of which ISRIC is the sole repository.
ordinating committees. ILP promotes multidisciplinary er of the Earth sciences globally. From a wide range of Current activities include the Global Assessment of Land
research projects of interest to both the geological (IUGS) submissions from around the world, AGI is pleased to Degradation and Improvement, World Reference Base
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