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SUITMA 2011 Marrakech The Koutoubia Mosque in Marrakech The SUITMA 2011 symposium is organized in Marrakech, Morocco (from October 3th to 7th). SUITMA workgroup The symposia SUITMA symposia' data is processed through semantic technologies in order to exploit and value authors and papers issued during the symposia. The SUITMA serie : SUITMA 2000 (symposium held in Essen, Germany) SUITMA 2003 (symposium held in Nancy, France) SUITMA 2005 (symposium held in Cairo, Egypt) SUITMA 2007 (symposium held in Nanjing, China) SUITMA 2009 (symposium held in New-York, United States) SUITMA 2011 (symposium held in Marrakech, Morocco) 2013 : SUITMA 2013 will take place in Torun (Poland) The SUITMA symposia at the World Congresses of Soil Science : Brisbane 2010 : Pedogenesis and functioning of soils in urban and industrial areas SUITMA workgroups Working group on urban soils in Germany Working group on urban soils in France

The wiki Wicri/Urban Soils (en) This wiki is dedicated to the urban soils community. It is part of the Wicri Environmental sciences and engineering project (in French), driven in cooperation with the Sciences et génie de l'environnement (SGE) research pole. WRB: an experiment An experiment is currently being made about the World Reference Base for soil resources, using semantic technologies : the Reference soil groups (RSG) and the related characteristics : Diagnostic horizons Diagnostic properties Diagnostic materials the soil qualifiers the soil specifiers Past events On October 13, 2011, a day devoted to the presentation of the process OXYSOL, which results from a program of the Anr PRECODD, and for treating contaminated soil by chemical oxidation and the refonctionnaliser will be held in ENSIC, rue Grandville Nancy. This seminar is open to scientists, operators, communities and administration. Ecotrons & Lysimeters - Nancy (France) - 29-31 March, 2010 an Urban soils session at the next European Geoscience Union (EGU) conference - Vienna (Austria) - 2-7 May, 2010 the 19th IUSS World Congress - Brisbane (Australia) - 1-6 August, 2010 - Urban soil session : Pedogenesis and functioning of soils in urban and industrial area|}