Year of Endorsement: 1964

 

Number of Endorsement’s Act/Government’s Gazette Number (FEK): 128 9/7/1965

 

Address / Communication:

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus

School of Agriculture, 231, 54124

Email: thmatsi@agro.auth.gr

Tel: +30 2310 998682

 

Members – Teaching Staff

George Bilas, PhD, Laboratory Teaching Staff

Tel: +30 2310 998739

E-mail: bilas@agro.auth.gr

 

Emeritus and retired professors

Nikolaos Misopolinos, Emeritus Professor

Konstantinos Prodromou, Emeritus Professor

George Zalidis, Emeritus Professor

 

Collaborating Scientists

Michalis Pazarloglou, Agronomist, MSc

Tel.: +302310998738

E-mail:pazarlog@agro.auth.gr

 

Research Field

Soil genesis and classification, soil mapping, problematic soils, soil resources degradation and restoration, soil quality, land suitability evaluation, precision agriculture

 

History

The Laboratory of Applied Soil Science was established in 1964. Through the years it performed significant work in applied and basic research. As a result a vast number of papers has been published in National and International scientific journals.

While in the first two decades the Laboratory was involved mainly in scientific issues relating to agriculture, the last decade is systematically occupied in environmental scientific issues and more specifically in the pollution and soil degradation.

 

  

Teaching Activities

The Laboratory covers the undergraduate and postgraduate level of the Faculty of Agriculture in the area of degraded soils, soil genesis, mapping, and classification and instrumental chemical analysis. At the same time the Laboratory organises conferences, seminars and other educational events by itself or in co-operation with other agencies and laboratories.

 

Research Activities

• Monitoring, evaluation, management of natural resources and protected areas at catchment area level
• Degradated soils.
• Soil mapping (especially in viticultural areas).
• Soil quality and Site Specific Management
• Evaluation of soil resources pollution and degradation.
• Soil genesis and classification
• Agro environmental pressure and impact indicators on natural resources and ecosystems.
• Methods and technologies for soil and water restoration.
• Management and restoration of wetland ecosystems.
• Constructed wetlands and amelioration of point and non-point source pollution.

 

Facilities and Equipment

The Laboratory is fully equipped for conducting surveys, monitoring and evaluation of land and aquatic ecosystems.

The equipment includes instruments for conducting mapping and specialised measurements of soil and water quality, pollution and degradation in situ and in the laboratory along with the use of remote sensing tools and software (GIS).

 

Recent Research Projects

• 07/2007-01/2010 “Assessment of nutrients, heavy metals and hydrodynamic soil properties for the wise use of water and fertilizers and the growth of safe products in the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace”. Data gathering and processing, in situ soil and water sampling, and database creating using ArcGIS for a 300,000 ha study area. Scientific coordinator: Prof N. Misopolinos.
• 10/2007-07/2008 «Collection and analysis of added value data”. Site specific sampling and analysis of soil and biomass samples in the agricultural areas of the four prefectures of the Epirus Region. Scientific coordinator: Prof N. Misopolinos
• 2011- 2013 “Merging hydrological models and Earth observation data for reliable information on water – MyWater”. Scientific coordinator: Prof N. Misopolinos. EC FP7.
• 2011-2014 ” Identification of value-added quality characteristics of agricultural products using molecular analysis, soil indicators and geoinformatics – BIOTYPO.

Scientific coordinator: Prof N. Misopolinos. SYNERGASIA 2009 – ESPA

• 2013-2014 “Development of an integrated system for soil geographic data and delineation of agricultural zones in Greece. Scientific coordinator: Prof N. Misopolinos, OPEKEPE.
• 2013-2025 «Soil geodatabase of areas cultivated with eastern type tobacco» Scientific coordinator: Prof N. Misopolinos. Misirrian S.A., Socotab S.A., SEKE S.A.
• 2019-2022 “Sino-EU Soil Observatory for intelligent Land Use Management” – “SIEUSOIL”. Scientific coordinator: Prof Th. Alexandridis. Horizon 2020.
• 2024-2025 “Capturing and Storing Atmospheric CO2 for Improvement of Soil Quality” – “CARBON 4 SOIL QUALITY”. Scientific coordinator: Prof Th. Alexandridis. Interreg Euro-MED.

 

Recent Theses

 

MSc Theses:

• Tsanakas Theofanis. 2007. The impact of irrigation water salinity after treatment with an electronic device emitting alternating waveforms on the variety Chondrolia Chalkidiki. 73p.
• Papadelis Christos-Emmanouil. 2009. Assessment of soil quality for degraded soil restoration in the area of Tagarades, Greece. 95p.

 

Diploma Theses:

• Karastogianni Evdokia. 2017. Evaluation of spatial interpolation methodologies for mapping degraded soils in the Prefecture of Xanthi, Greece. 40 p.