The Department of Soil Science (SU) postgraduate students and
researchers did extremely well at the latest Soil Science Society of South
Africa (SSSSA) Combined Congress held in Bloemfontein in 18-20 January 2016.
Mr Luan le Roux received the SSSSA award for best paper
presented by SSSSA member under the age of 30 for his paper entitled: “The
pedogenesis of bleached topsoils overlying weakly structured subsoils in the
Western Cape and Mpumalanga Provinces of South Africa and their significance to
Classification” by J.L. Le Roux, J.J.N Lambrechts, F. Ellis, W.P. de Clercq and
C.E. Clarke
Ms Marilee Carstens received the Omnia award for best MSc soil
student presentation entitled “Chemical and Photometric properties of bleached
topsoils occurring on red and yellow-brown apedal subsoils” by M.E. Carstens,
W.P. de Clercq, J.L le Roux and C.E. Clarke .
Dr George van Zijl, Dr Andrei Rozanov and Dr Freddie Ellis were
awarded the SSSSA medal for the best soil science paper published in the South
African Journal of Plant and Soil in 2014, which was based on the MSc work of
George van Zijl conducted at the Department of Soil Science, Stellenbosch
University. The title of the paper was: “Understanding
the combined effect of soil properties on gully erosion using quantile
regression”.
