Dates of the Meetings and agendas

Wednesday April 24, 2002: 

Arrival of delegates at Frankfurt / Luxemburg airport; travel to Manderscheid.

Thursday April 25, 2002: 

Joint W G session on most recent results from collaborative work and from relatively new participants 

 Mineralogical properties of German Andosols by Dr. M.Kleber: 8h30 – 8h55 am

Mineralogical properties of selected COST European andosol samples by Dr. F. Monteiro and Dr. M. Kleber: 8h55 – 9h20h am

 New analytical results from Hungary and Greece participants (prof A. Kertesz, prof. M. Fuleky, Dr. A. Economoy, Dr. D. Pateras): 9h20 – 10h am

 Coffee break: 10h – 10h30 am

 Volcanic soils in Slovakia by prof. B Juráni: 10h30 – 10h55 am

Selected features of Andic soils in Slovakia by Dr J Balkovic: 10h55 – 11h20 am

Overview of the session chair by Dr. O.Arnalds: 11h20 – 12h20 am

Lunch 12h30 am

Joint W G session on methods and soil classification: 2h15 – 6h pm

 a) Fluoride reactivity 

Fluoride reactivity – the potential of a forgotten procedure to serve as a single value index of pedogenetic development stage and ecological potential in European Andosols

b) Selective dissolution methods

 (i) Suitability of selective dissolution methods as classification tools (Al_Py; Al_o)

 (ii) suitability of selective dissolution methods to quantify short range order materials (oxalate, dithionite, pyrophosphate) with two introductive 20 minutes communications:

The validity of oxalate extraction for characterization and Al/Si calculations for vitric Andosols by Dr. O. Arnalds and Dr. S.R. Gislason

A critical review of the oxalate extraction method for volcanic soils by Dr. A. Thorlacius

Dinner 7h30 pm

Friday April 26, 2002: 

Joint W G session on scientific and technnical management: 8h30 – 10h am

a) Coordination and sassignement of further analytical activities: 8h30 – 9h30 am

b) Editorial remarks on special issues Catena and Geoderma: 9h30 – 10h am

Coffee break: 10h – 10h30 am

Management Committee Meeting: 10h30 – 12h45 am

Lunch 12h45 am

Joint W G session on „State of the art of analysis of mineral and organic and organo-mineral components in volcanic soils“: 2h30 – 6h15 pm

a) Radiocarbon dating 

Mineral control of soil carbon storgae in Andosols by Dr. Margaret Torn, Invited speaker, Center for Isotope Geochemistry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA: 2h30 – 3h30

Coffee break: 3h30 – 4h am

b) Rietveld 

Rietveld based-quantification of allophane applied to COST samples by Dr. Reiner Dohrmann, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Hannover: 4h – 4h25 pm

c) Pyrolysis-GC/MS

Py-GC/MS of soil profiles from the Acores by Dr. P. F. van Bergen, Organic Geochemistry Group, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Utrecht: 4h25 – 4h50 pm

d) 13C, 31P, 27Al and 29Si solid NMR spectroscopy

Characterization of organo-mineral associations in soils from Tenerife (Spain) by Dr. F. Bartoli, CNRS Soil Science, Nancy: 4h50 – 5h15 pm

Dinner 7h30 pm

Saturday April 27, 2002:

Field trip to and discussion of sil-andic Andosol “Buchholz” (parent material pumice) and alu-andic Andosol “Köhlerwald” (parent material basalt), stop at eruption site “Laacher See”.

Field trip – Andosol genesis discussed on the object

From 8h30 am

Al- andic Andosol „Windsborn“ from SCORIA
Mosenberg-chain, Manderscheid

Andosol „Buchholz“ from TEPHRA
Laacher See, Boppard

Lunch 12h45 - 2h30 pm

Sil-andic Andosol „Köhlerwald“  from Tertiary BASALT
Vogelsberg

Expected return to Manderscheid at 6h30 pm

Dinner 7h30 pm

 Sunday April 28, 2002:

Departure of delegates from Manderscheid to Frankfurt / Luxemburg airport and home country.

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General thematic frame of the WG 1 and WG 3 meetings

“Mineralogy related features and processes common to European Andosols”

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 Goals of the meetings 

WG1:
1. Mineralogical features of European Andosols – Summary of mineralogical data available to date

Identify different mechanisms and time frames of mineral change in European Andosols

2. Identify mechanisms and time frames of organic matter accumulation in European Andosols, included a review lecture on « Mineral control of carbon storage in Andosols » by Dr. Margaret Torn, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Center for Isotope Geochemistry, Berkeley, USA

3. Assess the potential of different methodological approaches to contribute to the understanding of pedogenetic trends in European Andosols (IR-Spectroscopy, ²⁷Al and ²⁹Si-NMR-spectroscopy, XRD, TEM, micromorphology, selective dissolution methods, fluoride reactivity, ¹⁴C-Radiocarbon dating)

WG3:
1. Determine the suitability of selective dissolution methods to quantify short range order materials 

 2. Assess Fluoride reactivity – the potential of a forgotten procedure to serve as a single value index of pedogenetic development stage and ecological potential in European Andosols

for both WG1 and WG3:  

1. Discuss and state consequences of the above for classification issues, 

2. Decide on priorities for further action

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MC meeting (draft agenda):

1. Approval of the minutes of the last Management Committee Meeting in Ponte Delgada, Azores, Portugal (6 October, 2001).

2. Approval or discussion of the agenda.

3. Report on the rejection of our demand of a 12 months extension of the Action. Discussion and relevant decisions.

4. Report by the Guest Editors on the Geoderma and Catena special issues linked to the International Workshop, Azores, 3-7 October 2001, on « Volcanic soils: properties, processes and land use » we organized.

5. Report on the next WG 1, WG 2, WG 4 and MC meeting in Budapest, Hungary, 19-21 September 2002. Discussion and relevant decisions.

6. Discussion on the planed book on soil resources of European volcanic systems (possible agenda: edition of the book: 2002-2003, printing of the book: 2004): possible Scientific Committee, possible title and chapters, possible edition by either the EEC or/and RALA or a private company such as Elsevier or Springer-Verlag etc)

 7.  Miscellanous