Conference Themes

Boodja Katitjin: soil stewardship and storytelling

  • First Nations knowledge and connection to country
  • Soils in society: anthropology, art, education and identity
  • Soils in urban systems, citizen science and gardening at home

Soil security and resilience

  • Water use efficiency, repellence, flooding and drought in soil systems
  • Soil contamination: microplastics, pharmaceuticals, PFAS, AMR and others
  • Mitigating climate risk: planetary boundaries, climate unpredictability and on-farm resilience

Soil constraints, amendments and engineering

  • Soil constraints: acidity, sodicity, salinity, and compaction.
  • Soil amendments: clay, lime, gypsum, soil wetters and other amendments
  • Soil engineering: deep ripping, spading and other amelioration strategies

Soils-first agronomy and land management

  • Enhancing productivity: mineral fertilisers, biofertilizers and microbial inoculants
  • Innovations in agronomy, farming systems and precision agriculture 
  • Soil rehabilitation in eroded, marginal and post-mining landscapes

Soil health, conservation and sustainability

  • Soil health, biodiversity and ecosystem services
  • Natural capital, carbon projects and regenerative agriculture
  • Waste-to-resource: biochar, compost, manure and less-linear economies

Soil organic

matter and nutrient dynamics

  • Understanding soil function, microbial processes and plant-soil interactions
  • Optimising nutrient management: nutrient use efficiency, leaching and losses
  • Soil organic matter, carbon and energy dynamics

Technology, data

processing, and artificial intelligence

  • Modelling, mapping, monitoring, and sensing
  • Hardware, software and decision support tools
  • Artificial intelligence, big data and future technologies

Soil description, classification and national inventories

  • Soil morphological characteristics and field survey methods
  • Soil taxonomy: national and international classification
  • Soil databases, national inventories and data standards

Policy, planning and governance for soils

  • Soils extension, training and certification for national soil literacy
  • ESG frameworks, market incentives, and other soil investments
  • Local and national governance, planning and policy for soils

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 11 December 2025

Call For Abstracts Open

February 2026

Registrations Open

24 April 2026

Call For Abstracts Close

31 July 2026

Early Bird Registration Close

29-31 October 2026

Soil Judging Competition

1 November 2026

Welcome Reception and Registration

2-4 November 2026

Conference Sessions

5 November 2026

Field Trips

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