LOESSFEST'09 | Aug. 31st – Sept. 3rd, 2009 |Novi Sad-Serbia

About Conference

Lossfest’09 is planed as a conference which will consider all actual and will promote potential aspects of loess science. The concept is similar to the one presented at previous Loessfest held in Bonn and Heidelberg in 1999 organized by Edward Derbyshire, Ian Smalley, and Ludwig Zöller. Loessfest’99 has been probably the best ever organized international conference related to loess research. It has initiated several very successful scientific projects and resulted in two special issues published in leading international geoscience journals Earth Science Reviews and Quaternary International.

One decade later we would like to keep tradition and again bring together the most relevant world wide loess researchers, but also we have attention to use the frame of the Loessfest’09 to open loess investigations for wider scientific community. We would like to motivate participants from developing countries and young researchers to take part. The most important conference topic will be understanding climatic and environmental changes recorded in widespread loess - paleosol sequences giving the opportunity for spatial and temporal reconstructions of climatic and environmental changes on local, regional, and continental scale. Special attention will be paid to loess and dust deposition models, loess typology, mapping loess distribution, and loess landscape evolution and dynamics.

Besides traditional loess themes we would also like to focus on links between past and present dust dynamics and human society in the context of geological, archeological and historical timescale. One of the innovative topics will also be related to identification, conservation and promotion of the loess geo-heritage.