Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce TPS 2013 – International Terra Preta
Sanitation Conference, to be held in Hamburg, Germany 29-30 August 2013.

Terra Preta Sanitation is an issue of growing concern in the light of
water and sanitation, climate change, energy and soil protection. The
International Terra Preta Sanitation Conference aims at bringing
scientists and practioners together to present their results and share
their experiences.

The conference is organised by Hamburg University of Technology, WECF,
UNESCO-IHE, the German WASH network and the BDZ.

The official call for abstracts is now available on the TPS website
www.tps-ic.org <www.terra-preta-sanitation.net>

Abstracts should be submitted by 15^th February 2013. Acceptance of
abstracts will be notified to the leading author not later than 15^th
March 2013, following evaluation by the scientific committee.

All papers accepted for presentation will be published in proceedings
available at the start of the TPS conference. A selected number of
papers of good quality will be considered for scientific publication,
following a regular peer-review process.Please do not hesitate to
contact the organising secretariat office@tps-ic.org for any questions!

Looking forward for your reply!

Kind regards

Ralf Otterpohl, Claudia Wendland, Torsten Bettendorf

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Dear Claudia, Otterpohl and Bettendorf,

we added the TPS 2013 – International Terra Preta Sanitation Conference to our event calendar (www.susana.org/lang-en/news/events?view=...mp;type=1&id=155).
Thank you for posting the announcement in the forum and feel free to contact us when there are any more details about the conference.

p.s. The link you posted does not work please add the correct link.

Kind regards,
SuSanA secretariat.
[posted by Agazi Medhanie]

Thank you for your questions related to the TPS conference!

There are a number of disciplines which are targetted with the call for abstracts.
As a coorganiser of the TPS Conference, I want to mention the themes covered by the conference:

Overall TPS systems and system design
TP soils – historical and modern aspects
Soil fertility and food security
Intensification of organic farming
New insight to plant-soil interaction(endocytosis)
Land use, reforestation, reversing erosion
Greywater in TPS – Bamboo, short rotation plantation, constructed wetlands
Logistic and operation
Microbiology, sanitization and lactic acid fermentation
Carbon composting of biowaste and excreta
Wood gas technology for energy and char coal production
Pyrolysis vs. hydrothermal carbonization

We know that many institutions have started a number of activities related to Terra preta with and without human excreta, biochar production, agriculture. With the conference, we are aiming at bringing these researchers, practitioners and interested people together to share the experiences on the different aspects of this new topic.

Please see www.tps-ic.org for further information,

best regards
Claudia