Soil Classification & Education 2 conference was organized on September 12-14, Venue was prepared by Department of Soil Science and Landscape Management. Several dozen participants from around the world, incl. from Lithuania, Bulgaria, Korea and Gabon participated in both the stationary part, which took place on Monday, and the field part on the following day. During session in conference room, the results of the Erasmus+ Share Your Soils project (https://sites.google.com/site/shareyoursoils/home) were presented - soil omnibus, an edutainment application for learning soil classification and the 5th volume from the Soil Sequence Atlas series (pdf versions of the first 4 volumes can be downloaded from the Rumak repository (https://repozytorium.umk.pl/handle/item/5490, http://repozytorium.umk.pl/handle/item/5218, http://repozytorium.umk.pl/handle/item/5510, https://repozytorium.umk.pl/handle/item/5511). Conference participants had also the opportunity to present the results of their research and didactic work related to the issues of soil classification and soil science education. The field session was organized in the Brodnica Landscape Park, and on the way the participants visited the Gothic castle in Radzyń Chełmiński. In the vicinity of Lake Zbiczno, the soils of subglacial gutters were presented - four profiles developed from: 1) organic material, 2) kame sands, 3-4) sandy deposits. year's. Our guests, as one of the first in the world, could evaluate fourth edition of the WRB (2022) classification system in field conditions!
[photos by Marcin Świtoniak and Przemysław Charzyński].
