WSY 2025 - Magyar Talajtani Társaság

World Soil of the Year 2025: Gleysol from the Carpathian Basin

The “Gleysol– Hydromorphic soil supporting forest growth in the steppe region from the Carpathian Basin”, has been officially named the World Soil of the Year 2025.

Description of soil profile

🎥 Video materials introducing the World Soil of the Year 2025: English & Hungarian

Location: Püspökladány – Experimental Station and Arboretum, University of Sopron Forest Research Institute (SOE-ERTI), Hungary

Images for use
(Photos by: D. Bertóti, E. Dobos, K. Dobos, M. Fuchs, I. Juhász, V. Korponai, T. Novák)
When using the images, please refer to the Hungarian Soil Science Society.

Promotion of the WSY and related events:

● This soil profile is presented:
– as a Soil Profile of the Hungarian Presidency on the 5th of December 2024 in Budapest, as part of the Presidency Soil Collection,
– as National Soil of the Year 2024
● Central venue for a nationwide soil profile description event held on the 21th of March 2025: Talaj a Talpad Alatt (Soil beneath your feet)
● Site for Saline field course for PhD students in environmental science, earth science, ecology and agricultural science
● Site for VII. Extreme Soil Camp – soil science camp for high school students and teachers
● Site for Geotop Day
● Field site of the Soil Science (Forest Site Survey) Postgraduate Engineering Programme of the University of Sopron

Coming soon:
● Soil Literacy and Awareness Raising Workshop & Picnic

Award ceremony: Dr. Endre Dobos, President of the Hungarian Soil Science Society received the prize from Dr. Richard J. Heck, President of the Canadian Soil Science Society and IUSS Chair of Division1, during the Soils for Our Future Conference 2025 in Winnipeg, Canada.

Media appearance: