Alfred Hartemink is Professor of Soil Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Secretary General - International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS).

Kevin McSweeney is Professor of Pedology (Soil genesis, classification, mapping and land use, application to sustainable land management) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Focuses on the novel and exciting aspects of the soil carbon research

Presents the latest research and findings on soil carbon

Part I: Soil Carbon in Space and Time.- Challenges for Soil Organic Carbon Research.- Micromorphology and Micromorphometry Techniques for Soil Organic Carbon Studies.- Soils as Generators and Sinks of Inorganic Carbon in Geologic Time.- Organic Carbon as a Major Differentiation Criterion in Soil Classification Systems.- Quantitatively Predicting Soil Carbon Across Landscapes.- On Soil Carbon Monitoring Networks.- A Novel Method for Measurement of Carbon on Whole Soil Cores.- Evolutionary Optimization of Spatial Sampling Networks Designed for the Monitoring of Soil Organic Carbon.- Distribution of Soil Organic Carbon in the Conterminous United States.- Overview of the U.S. Rapid Carbon Assessment Project: Sampling Design, Initial Summary and Uncertainty Estimates.- Part II: Soil Carbon Properties and Processes.- Molecular Models of Water and Cations Bridges in Humic Substances.- Rapid Evaluation of Soil Quality Based on Soil Carbon Reflectance.- Characterization of Soil Organic Substances by UV-Vis Spectrophotometry in Some Soils of Hungary.- Hot-Water-Soluble Organic Compounds Related to Hydrophobicity in Sandy Soils.- The Contribution of Soil Aggregates to Carbon Sequestration in Restored Urban Grasslands.- Contribution of Fungal Macromolecules to Soil Carbon Sequestration.- Carbon Storage and DNA Adsorption in Allophanic Soils and Paleosols.- Soil Microbial Biomass and C Storage of an Andosol.- Estimating Fine Resolution Carbon Concentration in an Intact Soil Profile By X-ray Fluorescence Scanning.- Probing Temperature-Dependent Organo-Mineral Interactions with Molecular Spectroscopy and Quartz Crystal Microgravimetry.- Storage of Total and Labile Soil Carbon Fractions Under Different Land-Use Types: A Laboratory Incubation Study.- Could Soil Acidity Enhance Sequestration of Organic Carbon in Soils?.- Part III: Soil Use and Carbon Management.- Is Percent 'Projected Natural Vegetation Soil Carbon' a Useful Indicator of Soil Condition?.- Forest Fires and Soil Erosion Effects on Soil Organic Carbon in the Serrano.- River Basin (Chilean Patagonia).- Soil Carbon Sequestration with Improved Soil Management in Three Villages in India.- Assessment of Near-Surface Soil Carbon Content Across Several U.S. Cropland Watersheds.- Mineralizable Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics in Corn-Soybean Rotations in Glaciated Derived Landscapes of Northern Indiana.- Long-Term Soil Organic Carbon Changes as Affected by Crop Rotation and Bio-Covers in No-Till Crop Systems.- Perennial Grasslands are Essential for Long Term SOC Storage in the Mollisols of the North Central USA.- Soil Organic Carbon Redistribution by Erosion on Arable Fields.- Relating Soil Carbon and Soil Structure to Land Use Management.-Microbial Biomass Carbon and Nitrogen Under Different Maize Cropping Systems.- Mitigation Effect of Farmyard Manure Application on Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Managed Grasslands in Japan.- Clay Addition and Redistribution to Enhance Carbon Sequestration in Soils.- Part IV: Soil C and the Environment.- Soil Carbon Management and Climate Change.- Globalsoilmap and Global Carbon Predictions.- Distribution of Organic Carbon on the Soils of Antarctica.- Carbon Balance in Soils of Northern Eurasia.- Topsoil Organic Carbon Map of Europe.- Soil Organic Carbon Content in the Topsoils of Agricultural Regions in Croatia.- Soil Carbon Variability in Some Hungarian and Croatian Soils.- Stratification Ratios of Soil Organic Matter in Agro-Ecosystems in Northeastern Brazil.- Carbon Balance at the Regional Scale in Southern Brazil Estimated with the Century Model.- Soil CO2 Fluxes From Different Ages of Oil Palm in Tropical Peatland of Sarawak, Malaysia.- Soil Organic Carbon Stocks, Changes and CO2 Mitigation Potential by Alteration of Residue Amendment Pattern in China.- Soil Organic Carbon Stocks Under Plantation Crops And Forest in the Rainforest Zone of Nigeria.- Evolution of Soil Carbon Storage and Morphometric Properties of AfforestedSoils in the U.S. Great Plains.- Soil Carbon Research Priorities.