XIIth ISFWP is planned as a traditional activity of IUSS Commission on Paleopedology which implicates joint scientific symposium and field seminar. A backbone issue both for field and academic parts of the event is Soil, geomorphic, sedimentary records of Pleistocene and Holocene climatic changes.

The main goal of the field seminar is to demonstrate the unique loess-paleosol sections, Paleolithic sites, and alluvial and colluvial pedosedimentary sequences of Late Pleistocene and Holocene paleosols.

A special attention will be paid also to famous Russian Chernozems. Classical views and modern concepts concerning their genesis will be discussed near spectacular sections of these soils. Paleoenvironmental implications and Pre-Holocene heritage of Chernozems will be discussed. We consider the field part of the action to be exiting and important opportunity for getting joint field experience and open discussions on paleosol genesis and paleoenvironment.

ORGANISERS:
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow State University, Faculty of Soil Science, Soil Science Institute
V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute
Institute of History and Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences
Kursk State Pedagogical University
Lipetsk State University
Government of Kursk region, Ecological Department
Alekhin Central-Chernozemic State natural resort
Natural-architectural museum-resort Divnogor'e
IUSS Commission on Palaeopedology
Paleopedology Commission of the Dokuchaev Soil Society, Russia

THE AUSPICES OF
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Chairman: O.N. Solomina Institute of Geography, Moscow, Russia
Co-Chairman: S.A. Sycheva Institute of Geography, Moscow, Russia
I.V. Kovda, M.A. Bronnikova, E.P. Zazovskaya, T.D. Morozova, I.G. Shorkunov, P.A. Pushkina, N.V. Lunin, – Institute of Geography Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
A.O. Makeev; Moscow State University, Faculty of Soil Science, Soil Science Institute, Russia
N.B. Khitrov V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute
Baryshnikov V.N. - Government of Kursk region, Ecological Department
Lukasheva O.P. - Kursk State Pedagogical University
A.A. Sinitsin – Institute of History and Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, St-Petersburg, Russia
A.A. Vlasov - Alekhin Central-Chernozemic State natural resort
M.I. Lylova - Natural-architectural museum-resort “Divnogor’e”
A.N. Bessudnov – Lipetsk State University
S. Sedov - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
A.A. Velichko, V.O. Targulian – Institute of Geography Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
D. Sauer - Hohenhaim University, Germany.
D. Faust – Germany
M.I. Gerasimova, N.I. Glushankova – Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Russia
I.N. Lebedeva – Dokuchaev Soil Institute, Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Russia
S.A. Sycheva Institute of Geography, Moscow, Russia
I.V. Kovda, M.A. Bronnikova, E.P. Zazovskaya, T.D. Morozova – Institute of Geography Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
A.O. Makeev – Moscow State University, Faculty of Soil Science, Soil Science Institute, Russia
A.A. Sinitsin – Institute of History and Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, St-Petersburg, Russia
A.N. Bessudnov – Lipetsk State University
S. N. Sedov - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico

Contacts:

Dr. Maria Bronnikova, secretary of the Organizing Committee, e-mail:paleopedology2013@gmail.com