18 WORLD CONGRESS OF SOIL SCIENCE

Cryosol Working Group participates in the 18th World Congress of Soil Science (USA, Philadelphia, July 9-15, 2006) and organizes Symposium
Soils of Northern, Southern Polar Region and Soils of High Elevations and Their Relationship to Global Climate Change

Working Group CR Cryosols

Oral Symposia
CR Soils of Northern, Southern Polar Region and Soils of High Elevations and Their Relationship to Global Climate Change.
Cryosols cover approximately 13% of the earth's land surface. Cryosols are of global concern since it is predicted that Polar Regions will experience a significant increase in average temperature with climatic change scenarios. Symposium will present state-of-knowledge in Polar Regions regarding soil formation, classification, chemistry.

Convenor: Sergey Goryachkin (Russia)
e-mail: sergey.gor@mail.ru
Co-convenor: John Kimble (USA) e-mail: soilcarbon@aol.com
Co-convenor: C. L. Ping (USA) e-mail: pfclp@UAA.alaska.edu
Co-convenor: J. Bockheim (USA)
e-mail: bockheim@facstaff.wisc.edu

PROGRAM FOR CRYOSOL SYMPOSIUM (ORAL SESSION)

INVITED:
J.C.F. Tedrow (USA). LATITUDINAL ZONATION OF POLAR SOILS
ORAL:
1. C. L. Ping (USA), G. Michaelson, F. S. Chapin, J. Kimble, W. Oechel, Y. Shur, C. Tarnocai, and D. A. Walker. THE STATE
FACTORS OF SOIL FORMATION IN ARCTIC TUNDRA
2. F. E. Nelson (USA), N. I. Shiklomanov, K. M. Hinkel, J. Brown, and G. Mazhitova. THE CIRCUMPOLAR ACTIVE LAYER
MONITORING (CALM) NETWORK..
3. M. Drewnik and S. Skiba (Poland). SOILS OF THE SPITSBERGEN (SVALBARD).
4. N. S. Mergelov (Russia). ORIGIN OF ORGANIC CARBON POOLS IN KOLYMA CRYOSOLS: PHENOMENON OF ORGANIC CARBON IMPREGNATION
IN MINERAL HORIZONS.

PROGRAM FOR POSTER THEATER SESSION

C. Tarnocai.
Soil Organic Carbon in the Northern Circumpolar Permafrost Regions..

E. M. Pfeiffer and L. Kutzbach.
Cryosols of the Lena Delta: an example for the necessity of international correlation between the existing
classifications.

G. Mazhitova, P. Kuhry, N. G. Oberman, and V. Romanovsky
Below-ground carbon pools and permafrost instability in the East-European Russian Arctic.

C. E. G. R. Schaefer, M. R. Francelino, F. N. B. Simas, M. R. Albuquerque, and L. M. Costa
Weathering, Landform and Cryogenic features of volcanic-rock landscape of Keller Peninsula, Admiralty Bay, Antartica.

M. Oelbermann, M. English, and S. L. Schiff
Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics and Microbial Community Structure During Climate Change Scenarios in Arctic Soils.

M. Kawahigashi
Fate of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in forest tundra soil systems with differing permafrost regime..

V. Stolbovoy
Global warming impact on carbon cycle of the permafrost-affected ecosystems in Russia.

U. Zimmermann, C. Knoblauch, M. Blumenberg, and E. M. Pfeiffer
Community size, structure and temperature adaptation of methane oxidizing bacteria in tundra soils.

Y. Shur, C. L. Ping, and M. T. Jorgenson
Soil Formation in Frost-boil Environments.

F. N. B. Simas, C. E. G. R. Schaefer, V. F. D. Melo, M. B. Guerra, M. Saunders, and R. Gilkes
Clay fraction mineralogy of Cryosols from Maritime Antarctica.

Further information is on the site http://iuss.colostate.edu/18wcss/