Calendar

Future activities

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.
11th May 2022 First (physical) Soil Science cluster PhDs drink at Onder de Linden in Wageningen! You can find more details in this flyer.
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.
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.
13th June- 17th June 2022 - Summer school 'Soil Ecology in the Circular Agroeconomy'. For info and registration click here.
20th June 2022 - Live demonstration of the new Aggregate apparatus in the Soil Hydro-physics lab, followed by networking drinks. Subscribe sending an email to soilcluster@wur.nl. Places are limited so hurry up!
23rd June Earthworm symposium following the PhD defense of Hannah Vos (SBL). Details will follow.
27th June- 1st July 2022 - Soil Biology Lab Skills Course for Assessing Soil Functions
2023 Wageningen Soil Conference - Link to 2019 edition

Regular activities

1st Wednesday of the month from 10:30-11:30: Informal networking coffee with Research Lines LIVE in Gaia/Lumen building.
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

Past activities

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