Calendar

Future activities

• 10 October 2024 - Soil Cluster seminar from Dr. Kathe Todd-Brown's talk about "Building Coastal Marsh Models" - 4 p.m, Room B4030, Orion.
• 17 October 2024 - Compost mission for the Earthworm Hotel. Meeting point 10 am in front of Gaia/Lumen.
• 18 to 20 November 2024 - Course on 'Transformative soil science' in Wageningen Campus. For more information and registration please visit the WIMEK website: https://www.wur.nl/en/activity/course-transformative-soil-science.htm
• The next International Symposium on Earthworm Ecology (ISEE13) will take place in 2026 in Wageningen! More info will follow soon!
• The next Wageningen Soil Conference will take place in 2027 - more information on the website of the WSC 2023

Regular activities

• 2nd Tuesday of the month: Soil Science cluster chair holder regular meetings
• 2nd Wednesday of the month: Soil Science Research Lines leaders regular meetings
• Every three months on the 2nd Tuesday of the month: Soil Science cluster and Research Lines leaders meeting
• Every two months Soil Science cluster PhDs meeting

Past activities

• 14th-20th September 2024 - PhD course 'Grounding carbon farming'. The first edition will be held on a dairy farm in France. This is an all-included, immersive course where fundamental issues around carbon sequestration in agricultural lands are treated from different perspectives, including that of farmers. Highly relevant to anyone working from close or far with soil carbon and land-based climate change mitigation, from biological, environmental, social, or economic perspectives! Click herefor more information.
• 2nd-6th September 2024 - Soil Biology Lab Skills Course For Assessing Soil Functions. For more information and registration please check here , registrations are open!
• 27th June 2024 - Soil cluster seminar from Jacky Croke (Director of the QUT Resilience Centre and Professor of the School of Earth, and Atmospheric Science) on '“Soil Carbon Dynamics in River Systems of Australia and the Netherlands- thoughts and perspectives” from 15:30 – 16:30 in Orion room B3034
• 26th June 2024 - Soil cluster seminar from Claude Passard (Research Director of UMR Eco&Sols, INRA, Montpellier, France) on “Soil organic P mobilization to sustain plant P nutrition: what are the best strategies to increase it efficiently?” 10:00-11:30 Lumen 2
• 16th May 2024 (4 - 6 pm) - Wageningen worm charming championship at Unifarm
• 7th-13th May 2024 - PhD course on Resource Use Efficiency in agriculture. We will focus on nitrogen and water across scales. Speakers include Katrin Descheemaeker, Florian Wichern, Gerlinde De Deyn, Francisco Pinto, Franca Bongers. In addition, a lot of room for exchange of ideas and creativity. Do not hesitate to join! More info and registration procedure here: Redesign agriculture to improve Resource Use Efficiency | PE&RC (pe-rc.nl).
• 1st May 2024 - Bodemdierendagenteam present at the EXPEDITIE NEXT day in Zutphen!
• 5th April 2024 (1:30-3:30 pm) - Creative Soil Workshop with environmental artist Kate Foster @ World Soil Museum.
• 13th December 2022 - Soil Science cluster seminar with Francois-Xavier Joly (Stirling University) talking about 'Drivers and mechanisms of organic matter turnover in terrestrial ecosystems'.
• 28th August - 1st September 2023 - Wageningen Soil Conference 2023
• 11th April 2024 (7:30-9:00 pm) - Art, Archeology & Peat! @IMPULSE WUR With Roy van Beek (SGL) and artist Kate Foster
• 1st December 2022 - Soil Science cluster seminar with Peter Fiener (Augsburg University) talking about 'Spatio-temporal patterns of water and matter (sediment, microplastics) fluxes in arable landscapes'.
• 8th November 2022 - Soil Science cluster seminar with Josie Chambers (UU) talking about 'Transformative research in soil science'.
• 4th October 2022 16:00 - Soil Science cluster seminar with Claire Chenu (INRA) talking about 'Climate resilience of soils under agroecological practices'. ORION (4007)
• 1st and 2nd October 2022 - Weekend of science with various outreach activities organized by the Soil Science cluster researchers. Register here for the Earthworm catch, Interactive soil lectureand Living Soil Workshop (Soil game). During the event there will also be a stand from the Bodemdierendageninitiative! Come, discover and be inspired by soil life!
• 28th September 2022 16:00 - Kick-off Soil Science cluster seminar with Harold van Es (Cornell University) talking about 'Soil Health: Learning from cropping systems, agronomic management and human impact'. IMPULSE (NcountR)
• 27th June- 1st July 2022 - Soil Biology Lab Skills Course for Assessing Soil Functions
• 24th June - PhD defence of Hannah Vos (SBL) “Earthworm-enhanced phosphorus availability in soil - from unravelling the mechanisms to assessing its significance”.
• 23rd June 14:00-18:00 - Earthworm symposium entitled “Earthworms: the movers and shakers of the soil”.
• 20th June 2022 - Live demonstration of the new Aggregate apparatus in the Soil Hydro-physics lab, followed by networking drinks.
• 13th June- 17th June 2022 - Summer school 'Soil Ecology in the Circular Agroeconomy'.
• 17th May 2022 Annual Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Global Soils Interest Group (GSIG) meeting. The meeting will be from 16:00 to 18:00 in Gaia 4. Please find more information at the dedicated SETAC page here.
• 3rd, 10th, 17th May 2022 webinars on soil carbon management jointly organised by the International Fertiliser Society and Fertilizer Australia. The webinars include both presentations and panel discussions with speakers from both Europe and Australia. In the first webinar on the 3rd May Gabriel Moinet (SBL) will be the panellist of the session 'Principles, objectives and constraints of managing soil carbon in Europe and the UK'. For more information and registration, check this link.
• 14th May 2022- The Dutch Soil Science Association (NBV) and the Dutch Geological Society (NGV) organize a theme day on Soil and Geology in Gaia with the contribution of Jakob Wallinga and Rob Comans. Here you can find the program of the day and more information.
• 4th May 2022 14:00-17:00 PE&RC Research Theme: Re-design of agroecosystems Symposium Series (1) - Resilience of Agroecosystems. During the symposium, the Soil Cluster research (represented by Alix Vidal, SBL) will be shortly presented in the context of the theme of the symposium - Resilience of Agroecosystems. Follow this link for more information and register: https://www.pe-rc.nl/redesign.
• 21 April 2022 between 16:00 and 18:00: The return of the Wageningen Worm Charming Championship organized by SBL!
• 20th April 2022 12:30-13:30 Biodiverse agroecosystem Research Line working group meeting goes LIVE in Lumen 5! Come and informally meet your colleagues involved in this topic!
• 19th April 2022 13:30-15:00 PhD defense Nicolas Beriot (SLM) 'Plastic mulch and pesticides residues in intensive agriculture'
• 1st April 2022 11:00-12:30 PhD defense Pavan Cornelissen (SLM) 'Integrated modelling of impact of reuse of waste water in agriculture: iRe-Use'
• 9th March 2022 Soil carbon management and climate change working group meeting ON SITE!
• 28th February 2022 Global Soil Biodiversity webinar on 'Soil Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture' with Gerlinde De Deyn (SBL) as one of the invited panelist.
• 15th February 2022 16:00-18:00 PhD defense Luciana Delgado-Otero 'Understanding smallholder's productivity by measuring food losses, soil perception and soil variability'
• 3rd February 2022 16:00-17:00 Joint meeting Biodiverse agroecosystem and Nutrient cycling and contaminant mitigation: Invitation to meet and explore opportunities for collaboration with the Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) group
• 20th January 2022 14:00-15:00 Multifunctional land evaluation working group meeting with a focus on a scientific debate on the EU Soil Strategy 2030
• 11th January 2022 Biodiverse agroecosystems working group meeting with a focus on pitches from working group participants
• 9th December 2021 10:00-11:00 Soil-water interaction working group meeting
• 3rd December 2021 Launch of the Soil Science cluster website in occasion of the World Soil Day on the 5th December!
• 2nd December 2021 Webinar organized by the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative on 'The underestimated role of soil animal diversity in bioturbation' where also the Soil Science cluster researchers Ingrid Lubbers (SLM) and Lijbert Brussaard (SBL) participated as speakers
• 2nd December 2021 Multifunctional land evaluation working group meeting with a focus on topics for students' projects
• 1st December 2021 Q&A session about soil salinization for the World Soil Day (5th December) with Jos van Dam (SLM) and Stephan Mantel (ISRIC). Broadcasted live on Instagram, check the recording here!
• 30th November 2021 Nutrient cycling and contaminant mitigation working group meeting with focus on organic micropollutants
• 4th November 2021 Multifunctional land evaluation working group kick-off meeting
• 28th October 2021 Soil on 1 platform 3rd webinar on the potential role of Carbon Sequestration for Climate Mitigation
• 25th November 2021 Nutrient cycling and contaminant mitigation 1st working group meeting – presentation of PhD proposal “Hui Gao will present her PhD project proposal titled “Field Scale Variability and Geochemical Modelling of Heavy Metals in Mine Waste-Polluted Soils”
• 11th October 2021 Soil-water interaction 1st working group meeting
• 2nd October 2021 Soil Science cluster activities for the Science weekend
• 9th September 2021 Soil on 1 platform 2nd webinar on Living labs and citizen science
• 8th June 2021 Biodiverse agroecosystems 1st working group meeting
• 17th May 2021 Carbon management and climate change 1st working group meeting
• 1st July 2021 Soil on 1 platform 1st webinar on Soil health and the EU mission on Soil Health and Food
• 27-30 August 2019 Wageningen Soil Conference 2019