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The
website of the IUSS (www.iuss.org) was established in 2001. The IUSS website has been
designed to provide IUSS members with information about the Union, and to
provide links and interesting information about soil and soil related
activities throughout the world. From the beginning a simple and flat
website was envisioned that should be promptly accessible in those parts
of the world where internet connections are slow.
The
site consists of a series of pages with clickable menus to other pages or
direct links or PDFs of documents. The Upcoming meetings section contains
a list of meetings from 2009 to 2014. All Division and Commission officers
including their addresses are listed. The number of monthly visits to the
IUSS website has steadily increase and currently the site is visited over
140,000 times per year. The website is increasingly been used and is one of the main communication medium for IUSS members. We continue
to develop links with national soil science societies and share
information through the IUSS Alerts and Bulletins.
One of the IUSS activities is the link
with the Year of Planet Earth initiative, for which we have written the
brochure "Soil - Earth's living skin" (available in 5
languages).
I also send out the IUSS Alert - a
monthly e-mail bulletin of the IUSS for and from the global soil science
community. It is sent to about 12,000 soil scientists all over the world.
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