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Minutes on the business meeting of the Paleopedology group at the INQUA
international congress of Reno.

The meeting of the commission Paleopedology took place on July the 24th.
After resuming the rationales of the discipline, president prof. Bronger
presented the group and the activities of the last four years. He commented
that the Paleopedology group is at present a Commission of the INQUA and a
Working Group of the International Union of Soil Sciences, it is composed
by 450 people, has several sub-commission and working groups and some of
them have received financial supports for research projects. The group has
his own web site, frequently updated, and it publishes an annual
newsletter. A thematic congress has been organized every year and the
proceedings have been published on peer-reviewed international journals.
However, the great number of activities of the commission was not
recognized by the new foreseen reorganization of the INQUA, which poses
prejudice about the status and the activities of the group. Prof. Bronger
reported the decisions taken in the last meetings of the Commission (Mexico
city and Bangkok) and invited the attendants to proceed to the election of
the officers of the Commission, although the foreseen new structure of
INQUA probably would change the status of the group.
The Commission carried out the voting procedures for the renewal of the
officers. Edoardo A.C. Costantini was elected president, Alexander Makeev
vice president and Francesco Malucelli secretary.
Edoardo Costantini illustrated the next congress and the field trip of the
Paleopedology group that will be held in Florence and in center and south
Tuscany from the 7 th to the 11 th of June 2004. The title of the congress
is: "Paleosols: memory of ancient landscapes and living bodies of present
ecosystems". The event was prepared in agreement with INQUA and IUSS
(International Union of Soil Sciences). For further information see the web
site: http://www.issds.it/paleo

Report on XVI INQUA Congress and Session 67 - S23: "The Soil Record of
Quaternary Climate Change" (Edoardo A.C. Costantini e Luca Trombino).
The Reno congress has been scheduled in plenary and thematic (both oral and
poster) sessions. About 1100 participants, from 56 countries, attended
about 2000 presentation, mostly posters.
Talks or posters on Paleopedology were mainly illustrated during the
session "The Soil Record of Quaternary Climate Change".
The works presented covered a wide range of topics, from the point of view
of the studied areas, to paleoclimatic significance, and suggested
methodological approach. In this light, different kind of paleosols have
been taken in account: paleosols related to glacial - interglacial
fluctuations, both at the high and middle latitudes; paleosols related to
hydrologic regime variability, mainly at the low latitudes; paleosols for
which two pedogenetic factors, climate and time, are contemporarily
responsible for the strong degree of weathering; paleosols sequences
developed on surfaces of different ages or showing different degrees of
evolution; paleosols developed from different parent materials throughout
the same climatic conditions. Moreover, works were also presented
concerning the cartography of paleosols, as a tool for modeling the
geomorphologic evolution of an area, or to assess the cultural value of a
territory, and studies regarding the quantitative characterization of
paleosols, in order to resolve specific problems by means of modellizations
and geostatistical analyses. Some methodological approaches have been
proposed, from the qualitative to the quantitative and/or statistic ones.
The great deal of studies dealing with Paleopedology would have probably
needed an overview, enabling the illustration to the non-paleopedologist of
the state of the art of Paleopedology, as basic and applied discipline for
the Quaternary studies of terrestrial processes.
In conclusion, also during the Reno congress, the Paleopedology was
confirmed as a discipline of great interest, both multi- and trans-
disciplinary: in most excursions paleopedological aspects were taken in
account, while during the congress more than 50 presentations were
specifically focused on Paleopedology, in at least 10 different sessions,
but the number of papers taking into account paleopedological aspects could
significantly increase searching "paleosols" as keyword.
The dissemination of paleopedological knowledge in so many research fields
provides a great gratification to our discipline, but it could be a source
of dispersion and methodological bewilderment. Our disciplinary group has
got a great relevance in providing the scientific exchange and coordination
between researchers coming from different scientific backgrounds, and
working on paleopedology within different disciplines.