The Australian Soils Conference is also held every 4 years and alternates with the ANZ Conference. The last Australian Conference was held at the University of Western Australia, Perth, WA in December 2002.

The theme for the 2004 Conference is Human Impact and Management of Soils.

The technical program will include international keynote speakers and oral and poster presentations from delegates. Contributions to symposia sessions are welcomed in all areas of soil science. The following themes are suggested only. If your paper does not fit under one of these themes, please create a new theme when you upload your paper via the Author Gateway.

* Water quality and soil management
* Managing disposal of waste and wastewater on land – challenges and opportunities
* Human made soils
* Soil and farming systems
* Soils of the South Pacific
* Soil health, quality and function
* GIS, remote sensing and digital soil mapping
* Regolith matters
* Quaternary history and environmental change
* Pedotransfer functions and soil inference systems
* Urban soils
* The profession of soil science
* Soil biodiversity and pedodiversity
* Soil monitoring networks
* Management of soil salinity
* Soils and native vegetation
* Soil carbon management
* Soils as an ecosystem service
* Contaminant bioavailability and terrestrial ecotoxicology
* Nanoparticles in soil environments
* Soil management under high nutrient regimes
* Emerging soil analytical techniques in the laboratory and the field
* Communicating and utilizing soil information
 
The SuperSoil Committee invites all practitioners of soil science to submit a paper to the joint Australian and New Zealand Soils Conference being held in Sydney in December 2004. Potential authors might include farmers, consultants, researchers, lecturers and people involved in policy development for agriculture.

Contact :
Secretariat : ICMS Pty Ltd Email:supersoil@icms.com.au