Loess Letter Online is an initiative to facilitate loess research world wide, supporting the efforts of the INQUA Loess Commission and C18, the Collapsing Soils Commission of the IAEG. It is edited by Ian Smalley at Nottingh\m Trent University and Ian Jefferson at Birmingham University; comments and contributions are invited at : smalley@loessletter.com Loess Letter has been produced for over twenty-five years as a small magazine. Issue 52 has just appeared. We plan to bring out issue 53 in April 2005; it will be a special issue devoted to loess in Poland. IINQUA loess groups and C18 are collaborating on a study of collapsing loess in the territory of the former Soviet Union, some initial thoughts and ideas are offered in "Russian Loess" above, and participation is invited - please contact Ian Smalley. A review of E.G. loess studies in Russian has appeared in Engineering Geology Vol 68 pp 333-351(2003). INQUA Loess Map of Europe. The INQUA Loess Map of Europe was a major initiative by the old Loess Commission. Julius Fink started the project in 1961- and it looks as though it might be completed in 2005, by Gunter Haase and remaining members of the original map group. Plans have been made to publish the map via Quaternary Science Reviews (as a fold-out) and QSR are believed to be co-operating. We hope to have the map published in its final state by the Cairns INQUA meeting. More details of the completion of the map project can be obtained from Ludwig Zoeller at ludwig.zoeller@uni-bayreuth.de .
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