After his studies in biology, Dirk started the PhD studies at the University of Antwerp in 2008. During the first years he worked on river system analysis and the development of a policy support tool for integrated catchment management in Flanders. The following years the focus of his research shifted from water related research to the [...]
Responsible of the Laboratory of Soil Biology, Dr. Cristina Menta is titular professor of the Systematic Zoology, Parma University. She is scientific administrator, as soil fauna expert, of several research projects related to the characterization of soil fauna in natural and degraded areas. She is conducting some studies in natural and agricultural conditions to define [...]
Christine Le Bas is a research engineer specialized in spatial soil data bases management and use at small to medium scales (1/1,000,000 to 1/250,000), including spatial estimation of soil parameters for modelling with use of pedotransfer functions or rules for several thematic studies. She participated also to several thematic studies at French or European level [...]
Christian Longueval graduated as an agricultural engineer at Montpellier SupAgro and he also has a Master in pedology at the University of Sciences and techniques of Languedoc. He is currently head of the agronomy and environment department of the Chamber of Agriculture of Midi-Pyrénées region. His areas of expertise are agronomy, arable crops, environment and [...]
Christian Barneoud has 28 years of experience as a pedologist. He has a Master degree in pedology (University of Nancy, 1985) and a university degree on “soil and wine” (University of Burgundy, 2004). In 2011, he was certified as a pedologist by the AFES (Association Française pour l'Étude du Sol = French Association for soil [...]
Cajo ter Braak is professor of Multivariate Statistics in the Life Sciences at Wageningen University. His research interests are in statistical ecology, multivariate analysis of ecological data, resampling and Bayesian computational methods, high-dimensional prediction problems/data mining. He developed a statistical modelling framework for analysing changes in biological communities due to environmental change and disturbance. He [...]
As PhD student at the Department of Agrotechnics, Faculty of Agriculture part of UASMV Cluj-Napoca, Eng. Duda conducts research on the monitoring of soils in the Somesan Plateau regarding the humidity, temperature and the main properties for crop production. Title: Monitoring of the thermic and hydric regime of the Somesan Plateau and technological characterization of [...]
Benoît Toutain is a computer scientist, in the Service Unit INFOSOL , INRA Orléans. He is in charge of developing and maintaining the French national information system on soils. Key tasks in LANDMARK Data integration and management Definition of structure and architecture
Research to support policies for sustainable soil management in the European Commission. With a background in quaternary geology and a PhD in remote sensing of semi-arid soils, he has spent almost the last thirty years in land surface research and since 1998, specifically dealing with soil related issues at EU and global levels. Soil Resource [...]
