News of the Soil Geography and Landscape Group
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The five dimensions of soil security
December 1, 2021 - Titia Mulder of the Soil Geography and Landscape group co-authored a review paper combining recent developments in soil mapping and soil monitoring... -
Sedimentation and subsidence in the Mississippi river delta
November 11, 2021 - SGL/NCL coastal geologist Liz Chamberlain explains in a podcast by the Delta Dispatches Radio Show that unravelling the history of the Mississippi... -
Valuable peatlands at risk of disappearing
October 18, 2021 - Peatlands are valuable ecosystems that store water and large quantities of carbon and that support high biodiversity. However, 20 percent of the... -
$500,000 for research on Mississippi Delta subsidence
October 5, 2021 - The RESTORE ACT Center of Excellence has awarded a grant of almost $500,000 (ca. €430,000) for the project "Subsurface stratigraphic... -
Light reveals the origin of a grain of sand
September 3, 2021 - A grain of sand buried for an extended period of time in earthworks or on the bottom of the ocean, accumulate a luminescence signal. Scientists use... -
Award for ‘fire lady’ Stoof
August 23, 2021 - Expert in wildfires Cathelijne Stoof has won an award for her work. -
Agricultural suitability assessment should distinguish between “socioeconomic suitability” and “ecological suitability”, study shows.
July 16, 2021 - Researchers of Soil Geography and Landscape co-authored a paper testing the added value of machine learning for land suitability assessments, allowing... -
"Moonshot" Jakob Wallinga
June 16, 2021 - "Moonshot" of SGL professor Jakob Wallinga, about sustainable and nature-oriented water management (in Dutch). -
Ten challenges for the future of quantitative soil research formulated
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4 Dimensional Information About the Skin of the Earth
May 25, 2021 - One of our PhD candidates explains why soil, and his research, matters.