FIELD TRIPS – PROGRAM
GENERAL SCHEDULE
SOIL MICROMORPHOLOGY COURSE – August 25–30, 2020 (optional)
THE CONFERENCE – August 30 – September 3, 2020:
- August 30 (Sunday) – registration at the conference venue (in the afternoon) and ice-breaking party, Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University
- August 31 (Monday) – registration, opening session, plenary sessions, poster session 1, afternoon: visit in the Kraków city center with a guide
- September 1 (Tuesday) – Plenary sessions, poster session 2, IUSS Business Meeting, Banquet
- September 2 (Wednesday) – Mid-conference trip (micromorphology of selected soils in Kraków and its close vicinity, visit in the Soil Museum)
- September 3 (Thursday) – Plenary sessions, summary and closing ceremony
POST-CONFERENCE TRIP – September 4–6, 2020 (from Friday to Sunday), Kraków – Sandomierz – Kielce – Kraków (optional): Polish Upland tour with emphasis to micromorphology of: soils developed from loess, gypsum and carbonate rocks; paleosols in Quaternary sequences; fossil Jurassic Podzols; Technosols in metal mining areas.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
- micromorphological aspects of soil-forming processes
- micromorphology of paleosols
- micromorphology of anthropogenic soils
- micromorphology of soils affected by human
- influence of soil organisms on micromorphological features of soils
- application of micromorphological studies in the analysis of Quaternary deposits
- application of micromorphological studies in archaeology
- the latest research techniques used in soil micromorphology
- directions of soil micromorphology development in the near future