Past events

Members of the group of Plant Nutrition have actively partecipated in scientific committee and/or have organised internationally attended workshops and conferences. Here you can find a list of events.

• International meeting on the rhizosphere (Ascona, Switzerland, September 2002)
  
• COST 832 meeting (Zurich, Switzerland, October 2002)
• International meeting on organic phosphorus dynamics in the environment (Ascona, Switzerland, July 2003)
• Symposium on carbon sequestration by soils at the American Society of Agronomy Congress (Denver, USA, November 2003)
• Symposium on the role of soil for the society and the environment at the 32^nd international geological congress (Florence, Italy, August 2004)
  
• International meeting on nutrient balance as a tool for sustainable land management (Tirana, Albania, March 2005)
• Symposium on soils and human health at the 18^th world congress of soil science (Philadelphia, USA, July 2006)
  
• Symposium on Swiss agriculture and sustainable development at the French academy of agriculture (Paris, France, March 2006)
  
• 1^st International workshop on the crop physiology of yam (ETH Zurich, Switzerland, December 2008)
• Nutrient Seminar "Grundlagen für die Düngung im Acker- und Futterbau sowie Hof- und Recyclingdünger" (ETH Zurich, Switzerland, January 2009)
  
• COST 869 meeting "Evaluation of projects in example areas: The Swiss Midland Lakes" (Notwil, Switzerland, June 2009)
  
• Organization committee of the TropenTag (Zurich, Switzerland, 14-16 September 2010)
• Symposium scientifique international sur la gestion durable des terres en zones soudano sahélienne: place et rôle des dispositifs de longue durée de suivi de la fertilité des sols (Ouagadougou, Burkina faso, 20-24 Septembre 2010)
• Nutrient Seminar "Mineralstoffgehalte in Pflanzen: Bedeutung für Produktivität, Qualität und Umwelt" (ETH Zurich, Switzerland, January 2011)
  
• Organization committee of the COST FA 0905 workshop “Mineral-enhanced food and feed: food processing and human nutrition” (Zurich, Switzerland, June 2012)
  
• Conference “IsoPhos: Development of Isotopic Tracers for a Better Understanding of the Phosphorus Cycle” (Ascona, Switzerland, June 2012)
• Symposium “Through eye of the needle: the soil microbial biomass concept from nutrient cycling to global warming” organized at the conference EUROSOIL 2012 (Bari, Italy, July 2012)
• Symposium on improved use efficiency of phosphate in Agroecosystems at the French academy of agriculture (Paris, France, October 2012)
• Nutrient Seminar "Mikroorganismen für eine öko-effiziente Pflanzenernährung" (ETH Zurich, Switzerland, January 2013)
• Nutrient Seminar "Phosphorus in agriculture: Where are we going?" (ETH Zurich, Switzerland, January 2015)
  
• International Scientific Advisory Board of the 8^th International Phosphorus Workshop (IPW8) "Phosphorus 2020 - Challenge for synthesis, agriculture & ecosystem" (Rostock, Germany, September 2016)
• Nutrient Seminar "Nitrogen in agriculture and the environment: facts and perspectives" (ETH Zurich, Switzerland, January 2017)
  
• International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements ICOBTE (Zurich, Switzerland July 2017)
• Yam session at the international conference for research on development (Bern, Switzerland, September 2017)
  
• International Conference “Isocycles: reaching an integrated use of stable isotopes to constrain biogeochemical nutrient cycles” (Ascona, Switzerland, October 2017)
• Summer school “Food systems in transition” (26 students), organized by the World Food System Center of ETH, the r4d project YAMSYS and the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire (Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire, 27.01-09.02.2018)
  
• Scientific committee of the 1^st joint AgroSpace-MELiSSA workshop (Rome, Italy, 16-18 May 2018)
  
• Scientific committee of the 15^th congress of the European Society for Agronomy (Genève, Switzerland, August 2018)
• 9^th International Phosphorus Workshop (IPW9) (Zurich, Switzerland, July 2019)