ELS 2014 - the Earth Living Skin: Soil, Life and Climate Changes, under the auspices of the Soil System Sciences Division of the European Geosciences Union, 21 – 25 September 2014 in Nova Yardinia, Italy (www.els2014.eu). The Conference Series set up the ambitious goal of studying soils as the main environmental interface where atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and geosphere design incredible living systems with time. Scientists with a temporary or consolidated interest for these fields of science are warmly invited to participate to this Conference, to bring their knowledge or their doubts, thus contributing to create a permanent forum of stimulating scientific debates, a good platform for exchanging new ideas, and an occasion for young scientists to meet colleagues from different disciplines and develop collaboration.

International Conference on Biogeochemical Processes at Air-Soil-Water Interfaces and Environmental Protection, June 23-26, 2014, Imola, Italy. The objective of the Conference is to promote exchange and discussion on the complex processes occurring at the Air-Soil-Water interfaces, from the molecular scale to the landscape, in a perspective of environmental protection. The Conference will consist of invited lectures, scientific sessions with oral and poster presentations and a field and cultural excursion. The ESSC will provide 2 grants of 500 Euro each for 2 young researchers (less than 35 years old) working in a European country, to support their participation to the International Conference (info: aswep-essc.unibo.it)