Results – SBCS Thesis and Dissertation Award – Victor Hugo Alvarez V. Soil Science Prize – 2025 Edition

The Brazilian Soil Science Society (SBCS) announces the results of the Victor Hugo Alvarez V. Soil Science Prize for Theses and Dissertations – 2025 Edition.

The Award aims to recognize and encourage excellence in scientific production in the field of Soil Science, honoring the best Doctoral theses and Master’s dissertations. The prizes will be awarded at the SBCS General Assembly, to be held on September 24, 2025, during the XXXIX Brazilian Congress of Soil Science (CBCS), in São Luís, Maranhão.

For this 2025 edition, Theses and Dissertations defended in 2023 and 2024 were eligible to compete.

The awards granted to the selected authors include: a diploma, free registration for the next CBCS, exemption from the next SBCS annual membership fee, full coverage of publication costs for one scientific article derived from the awarded thesis or dissertation, and SBCS books.

Awarded Theses and Dissertations

Division I – Soil in Space and Time
a) Master’s: no nominations
b) Doctorate: three theses nominated

• Awarded Thesis:
  “Pedometry Applications in the Antarctic Cryosphere: An Earth System Approach to Cryopedology, Pedogenesis, and Pedogeomorphology”
  Author: Danilo César de Mello
  Advisor: Márcio Rocha Francelino
  Institution: Graduate Program in Soils and Plant Nutrition – Federal University of Viçosa

Division II – Soil Processes and Properties
a) Master’s: no nominations
b) Doctorate: two theses nominated

• Awarded Thesis:
  “Soil physical quality in integrated crop-livestock-forest systems”
  Author: Gustavo Pereira Valani
  Advisor: Miguel Cooper
  Institution: Graduate Program in Soils and Plant Nutrition – Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ/USP)

Division III – Soil Use and Management
a) Master’s: five dissertations nominated

• Awarded Dissertation:
  “Diversification of production systems with forages in the agricultural frontier of Brazil: impacts on carbon, soil health, and crop productivity”
  Author: Larissa de Souza Bortolo
  Advisor: Maurício Roberto Cherubin
  Institution: Graduate Program in Soils and Plant Nutrition – Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ/USP)

b) Doctorate: four theses nominated

• Awarded Thesis:
  “Carbon geomicrobiology, saturation deficit and sequestration potential of Brazilian agricultural soils”
  Author: Heidy Soledad Rodríguez Albarracín
  Advisor: José Alexandre Melo Demattê
  Institution: Graduate Program in Soils and Plant Nutrition – Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ/USP)

Division IV – Soil, Environment and Society
a) Master’s: no nominations
b) Doctorate: one thesis nominated, but not awarded