| Academic degree: | Prof. Dr. |  | | Last name: | Blum | | First name: | Winfried | | Responsible for: | INTERCOMP: EU Strategy: Soils and Sediments | | Organization/Institute: | University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences | | Department: | Institute of Soil Research | | Position: | Professor in Chair | | Street, Number, POB: | Peter Jordan Str. 82 | | Postal code, City: | 1190 Vienna | | State: | | | Country: | Austria | | Phone: | | | Fax: | | | E-mail address: | winfried.blum@boku.ac.at | | Url: | http://www.boku.ac.at | | Curriculum vitae: | Prof. Dr. Winfried E.H. Blum, Institute of Soil Research, Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, 1180 Wien, Austria, winfried.blum@boku.ac.at
Dipl.Ing. Dr.rer.nat.habil. Dr.h.c.mult. Winfried E.H. Blum:
(EU Strategy - Soils and Sediments)
Studies in forestry and natural sciences at the Universities of Freiburg, Göttingen and Nancy, France.
1965: MSc, Forestry
1968: PhD, Natural Sciences
1972: Habilitation in Soil Science
1972-1974: Assoc. Professor of Soil Science at the University of Freiburg
1975-1979: Visiting Professor and Director of the bilateral Partnership Project between the University of Freiburg and the Federal University of Parana, in Curitiba, Brazil
01/10/79: present Professor in Chair of Soil Science and Director of the Institute of Soil Research at the University of Agricultural Sciences in Vienna, Austria. -
FURTHER ACTIVITIES:
1982-1986: President of the Austrian Soil Science Society
1990-2002: Secretary-General of the International Union of Soil Sciences
1991-1995: President of the Commission of Experts for Soil Protection at the Council of Europe, Strasbourg
1993-1998: Member of the General Committee and 1996-1999: Member of the Executive Board of the International Council for Science (ICSU, Paris)
1996-2002: Chairman of the ICSU Standing Committee Sciences for Food Security
1999-2002: Member of the ICSU Standing Committee on Scientific Planning and Review
1994-2002: Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency (EEA, Copenhagen).
MAIN RESEARCH AREAS: soil chemistry and mineralogy (clay mineralogy), related to soil geography, soil genesis and classification, terrestrial ecology and environmental protection, including soil erosion control and land use planning.
More than 350 PUBLICATIONS in scientific journals or as monographs and about 90 technical reports in 9 languages.
Numerous honours and distinctions, among them three honorary doctor degrees.
Past Secretary-General of IUSS. | | Areas of interest: | | EU Strategy: soils and sediments | | soil chemistry and mineralogy | | |
| | Articles: | 8 JSS (1) 1-2 (2008), Forms of Energy Involved in Soil and Sediment Processes
6 JSS (4) 262-268 (2006), Subject Area ´Intercompartment´: The (Associate) Subject Editors: Challenges and relevant literature in JSS and ESPR (the presentation of the Editors is not complete yet and will be continued)
5 JSS (4) 195-196 (2005), A Comment from the Soil-science Perspective to the Editorial ´New and recent developments in soil and sediment management, policy and science´ by Sabine E. Apitz [JSS – J Soils & Sediments 5 (3) 129-133 (2005)]
5 JSS (2) 67-68 (2005), Soils and Climate Change
4 JSS (2) 71 (2004), Soils and Sediments in the Anthropocene
3 JSS (4) 242 (2003), European Soil Protection Strategy
3 JSS (4) 245-246 (2003), Soil Protection in Austria
3 JSS (1) 2 (2003), Highlights of the First Issue in 2003 (February)
3 JSS (2) 62 (2003), Impacts of the Gulf War on Soils and Sediments
3 JSS (1) 3 (2003), Resolutions of the 17th World Congress of Soil Science - Bangkok/Thailand, August 14-21, 2002
2 JSS (4) 165 (2002), IUSS-Activities: The New Officers
2 JSS (3) 106-107 (2002), The ´Journal of Soils and Sediments´ (JSS) as a Co-operating Journal of the ´International Union of Soil Sciences´ (IUSS)
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