Project Board

  • Steve Banwart, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
  • Svetla Rousseva, N. Poushkarov Institute for Soil Sciences, Bulgaria
  • Pauline van Gaans, Deltares/TNO, The Netherlands
  • Nikolaos Nikolaidis, The Technical University Crete, Greece
  • Panos Panagos, EC Directorate General Joint Research Centre
  • Danielle Maia de Souza, EC Directorate General Joint Research Centre (JRC)
  • Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir, University of Iceland
  • Manoj Menon, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
  • Peter de Ruiter, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
  • Winfried Blum, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Austria
  • Georg Lair, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU), Austria
  • Brian Reynolds, Natural Environment Research Council, United Kingdom
  • David Robinson, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), United Kingdom
  • Stefano Bernasconi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich), Switzerland
  • Martin Novak, Czech Geological Survey, Czech Republic
  • Pavel Kram, Czech Geological Survey, Czech Republic
  • Bin Zhang, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, China
  • Susan Brantley, The Pennsylvania State University, United States
  • Tim White, The Pennsylvania State University, United States
  • Chris Duffy, The Pennsylvania State University, United States
  • Lars Lundin, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
  • Francois Chabaux, Centre National de la Recherche Scientfique, France
  • Willem van Riemsdijk, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

International Advisory Board

Professor Don Sparks
University of Delaware
Soil Science Society of America (President, 2000); Editor/Co-editor (Geoderma, Advances in Agronomy)
Dr Art White
US Geological survey
Fellow of the Geochemical Society; Fellow of the European Association of Geochemistry
Dr Suzanne Anderson
University of Colorado
Principal Investigator, Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory, NSF CZO programme
Professor Stephen Nortcliff
Reading University
Secretary-General, International Union of Soil Science; Steering Committee, EU Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection (2003-2005); Chair, BSI Technical Committee on Soil Quality (1984-2003)
Professor Rattan Lal
Ohio State University
Soil and Tillage Research (Co-Editor-in-Chief); Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Lead Author); Encyclopaedia of Soil Science (Editor-in-Chief)
Dr Andrew Impey
UK Natural Environment Research Council
Science and Innovation Manager
Professor Peter Grathwohl
Tuebingen University
PI of AQUATERRA – FP6 water resources project; J. Cont. Hydrology (Editor-in-Chief to 2006); German Society for Geosciences (President, Hydrogeology Section)
Professor Victor Targulian
Former Director
Institute of Soil Geography
Russian Academy of Sciences
IUSS, Dokuchaev Award 2006; Honorary member of IUSS; Vice-President, Russian Soil Science Society
Professor Genxing Pan
Director, Institute of Resources, Ecosystem and Environment for Agriculture, Nanjing
Scientific Achievements Award of Chinese government 1994,1999; Member of China National IGBP committee
Dr Martin Goldhaber
Senior Scientist
United States Geological Survey
Geochemical Society (Past President); Fellow of the Geological Society of America; Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists

Management Group

Data Management Committee

Pauline van Gaans, Deltares/TNO, The Netherlands

Training Committee

Steve Banwart, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Dissemination Committee

Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir, University of Iceland