herlands Soil Survey Institute, becoming deputy director in charge of research in 1983. In 1986, he joined Wageningen University as professor of soil inventarisation and land evaluation, a position from which he retired in 2004. From 1998-2003 he was a member of the Scientific Council for Government Policy, a think-tank in the Prime Minister's office.

Seong-Jin Cho earned his Ph.D. degree from Chungnam National University in 1967, specializing in soil fertility. He worked for 30 years as a professor of soil science and served for four years as the president of the Chungbuk National University, Korea, where he recently retired as an emeritus professor. During 1987-1988, Dr. Cho served as president of The Korean Society of Soil Science and Fertilizer. He organized a number of international symposia in soil sciences and related fields.

Jan Glinski is a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. As the director of the Institute of Agrophysics in Lublin during 1982 to 2003, he was the initiator and active promoter of scientific cooperation with many universities and institutes in Poland and abroad and organizer of international conferences on agrophysics. He specializes in searching for soil erosion processes, soil chemistry, soil aeration and its role in agriculture and environmental protection, as well as soil-root interactions. An emeritus professor, he has been an active participant of eight World Congresses and served as editor-in-chief of the journal International Agrophysics.

Marcel G.H. Jamagne, emeritus research director of the National Institute for Agronomic Research, was president of the French Soil Science Society from 1995-1999 and Vice-President of ISSS/IUSS from 1994-1998. He was co-organizer of the 16th World Congress of Soil Science. Born in Brussels, he served as engineer of agronomy and forestry in 1955, and earned his Doctor in Sciences in 1973. In 1968, he created the Soil Survey Staff of Franc
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Contact: Sara Uttech
suttech@soils.org
608-268-4948
American Society of Agronomy
23-Jun-2006


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