Soil Science Cluster WUR
@soilsclusterwur.bsky.social
Soil Science cluster of Wageningen University and Research advancing understanding of interactions between soil properties and processes & the impacts of land use and management on soil. Visit our website: https://www.wur.nl/en/research-results/chair-group
📣🎉The upcoming December Soil Science Cluster seminar is approaching!
“Animal as Earth engineers: knowns, unknowns and the need for rewilding?” by Jeppe Aagaard Kristensen from Aarhus University (Denmark)
When: 4th of December from 16:00 to 17:00
Where: Gaia 1 (WUR).
Don't miss it!
“Animal as Earth engineers: knowns, unknowns and the need for rewilding?” by Jeppe Aagaard Kristensen from Aarhus University (Denmark)
When: 4th of December from 16:00 to 17:00
Where: Gaia 1 (WUR).
Don't miss it!
November 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
📣🎉The upcoming December Soil Science Cluster seminar is approaching!
“Animal as Earth engineers: knowns, unknowns and the need for rewilding?” by Jeppe Aagaard Kristensen from Aarhus University (Denmark)
When: 4th of December from 16:00 to 17:00
Where: Gaia 1 (WUR).
Don't miss it!
“Animal as Earth engineers: knowns, unknowns and the need for rewilding?” by Jeppe Aagaard Kristensen from Aarhus University (Denmark)
When: 4th of December from 16:00 to 17:00
Where: Gaia 1 (WUR).
Don't miss it!
👏 👏 🎉 🎉 Congratulations to Wietse Wiersma who recently defended his thesis here at Soil Chemistry Group!
His work, led by Bert Jan van Groenenberg, explored soil geochemical constraints on Cd uptake in Cacao using multisurface modeling approach.
For further details lnkd.in/eeYAwxPB
His work, led by Bert Jan van Groenenberg, explored soil geochemical constraints on Cd uptake in Cacao using multisurface modeling approach.
For further details lnkd.in/eeYAwxPB
November 7, 2025 at 9:32 AM
👏 👏 🎉 🎉 Congratulations to Wietse Wiersma who recently defended his thesis here at Soil Chemistry Group!
His work, led by Bert Jan van Groenenberg, explored soil geochemical constraints on Cd uptake in Cacao using multisurface modeling approach.
For further details lnkd.in/eeYAwxPB
His work, led by Bert Jan van Groenenberg, explored soil geochemical constraints on Cd uptake in Cacao using multisurface modeling approach.
For further details lnkd.in/eeYAwxPB
Here the poster
October 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Here the poster
🪱🪱Busy looking for earthworms today in the Earthworm Hotel CALIWORMIA!✨ The Hotel is a precious infrastructure that we use to look for earthworms for scientific experiments, a part than using it for outreach! 🥼📃
You can find more information here: www.wur.nl/en/show/hote... and the poster attached!
You can find more information here: www.wur.nl/en/show/hote... and the poster attached!
October 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
🪱🪱Busy looking for earthworms today in the Earthworm Hotel CALIWORMIA!✨ The Hotel is a precious infrastructure that we use to look for earthworms for scientific experiments, a part than using it for outreach! 🥼📃
You can find more information here: www.wur.nl/en/show/hote... and the poster attached!
You can find more information here: www.wur.nl/en/show/hote... and the poster attached!
Join us tomorrow for the soil cluster seminar of October! 10 o' clock in Orion B8020!
📣Dr. Noémie Janot, INRAE (France) & Dr. Sónia M. Rodrigues, Universidade de Aveiro and CESAM (Portugal) will guide us through the world of metal behaviour and availability in soil✨
See you there!
📣Dr. Noémie Janot, INRAE (France) & Dr. Sónia M. Rodrigues, Universidade de Aveiro and CESAM (Portugal) will guide us through the world of metal behaviour and availability in soil✨
See you there!
October 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Join us tomorrow for the soil cluster seminar of October! 10 o' clock in Orion B8020!
📣Dr. Noémie Janot, INRAE (France) & Dr. Sónia M. Rodrigues, Universidade de Aveiro and CESAM (Portugal) will guide us through the world of metal behaviour and availability in soil✨
See you there!
📣Dr. Noémie Janot, INRAE (France) & Dr. Sónia M. Rodrigues, Universidade de Aveiro and CESAM (Portugal) will guide us through the world of metal behaviour and availability in soil✨
See you there!
⁉️Curious about the papers led by the Soil Science cluster people published in the last 3 months? Here an overview of the words in the titles, the bigger they are the more frequently a word is mentioned..✨
🧐See something useful or interesting for you? don't hesitate to contact us: [email protected]
🧐See something useful or interesting for you? don't hesitate to contact us: [email protected]
October 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
⁉️Curious about the papers led by the Soil Science cluster people published in the last 3 months? Here an overview of the words in the titles, the bigger they are the more frequently a word is mentioned..✨
🧐See something useful or interesting for you? don't hesitate to contact us: [email protected]
🧐See something useful or interesting for you? don't hesitate to contact us: [email protected]
📣Amazing outreach day yesterday with the Weekend of science! More than 300 visitors looking at plants, soil...🎉
Thank you to all the collaborators, great collective effort to pass our science to the general public and a lot of kids🪱🦠🌱😀!
See you next year! weekendvandewetenschap.nl/hotspots/hot...
Thank you to all the collaborators, great collective effort to pass our science to the general public and a lot of kids🪱🦠🌱😀!
See you next year! weekendvandewetenschap.nl/hotspots/hot...
October 6, 2025 at 7:37 AM
📣Amazing outreach day yesterday with the Weekend of science! More than 300 visitors looking at plants, soil...🎉
Thank you to all the collaborators, great collective effort to pass our science to the general public and a lot of kids🪱🦠🌱😀!
See you next year! weekendvandewetenschap.nl/hotspots/hot...
Thank you to all the collaborators, great collective effort to pass our science to the general public and a lot of kids🪱🦠🌱😀!
See you next year! weekendvandewetenschap.nl/hotspots/hot...
🎉Come to the Wageningen Hotspot of the Weekend of Science on Sunday 5th Oct!✨
You will find a variety of activities from the Soil Museum, soil painting, measuring photosynthesis, genetics, games with roots & more...
Spread the word and see you there! Info: weekendvandewetenschap.nl/hotspots/hot...
You will find a variety of activities from the Soil Museum, soil painting, measuring photosynthesis, genetics, games with roots & more...
Spread the word and see you there! Info: weekendvandewetenschap.nl/hotspots/hot...
October 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
🎉Come to the Wageningen Hotspot of the Weekend of Science on Sunday 5th Oct!✨
You will find a variety of activities from the Soil Museum, soil painting, measuring photosynthesis, genetics, games with roots & more...
Spread the word and see you there! Info: weekendvandewetenschap.nl/hotspots/hot...
You will find a variety of activities from the Soil Museum, soil painting, measuring photosynthesis, genetics, games with roots & more...
Spread the word and see you there! Info: weekendvandewetenschap.nl/hotspots/hot...
📣New thematic minor available led by the Soil cluster at Wageningen University: Plastics in the Environment and Society✨! A very important topic that will be explored by different perspectives!
September 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
📣New thematic minor available led by the Soil cluster at Wageningen University: Plastics in the Environment and Society✨! A very important topic that will be explored by different perspectives!
📢 🪱 Abstract submissions are now OPEN for the upcoming 13th International Symposium on Earthworm Ecology (ISEE13) — hosted for the first time in Wageningen, from August 23–28, 2026!
➡️https://event.wur.nl/isee13/home-2
Submit yours by Jan 4 2026 and be part of this exciting scientific exchange!
➡️https://event.wur.nl/isee13/home-2
Submit yours by Jan 4 2026 and be part of this exciting scientific exchange!
September 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
📢 🪱 Abstract submissions are now OPEN for the upcoming 13th International Symposium on Earthworm Ecology (ISEE13) — hosted for the first time in Wageningen, from August 23–28, 2026!
➡️https://event.wur.nl/isee13/home-2
Submit yours by Jan 4 2026 and be part of this exciting scientific exchange!
➡️https://event.wur.nl/isee13/home-2
Submit yours by Jan 4 2026 and be part of this exciting scientific exchange!
📣Soil cluster seminar: "Disentangling the soil-plant microbiome nexus for beneficial solutions: from biostimulants to xenobiotics degradation" 🦠 from Prof. Eduardo Puglisi
☑️9th September
☑️10 to 11 am
☑️GAIA building room B001
For joining on Teams:
Meeting ID: 326 610 433 473 8
Passcode: Hy9Kp9Pf
☑️9th September
☑️10 to 11 am
☑️GAIA building room B001
For joining on Teams:
Meeting ID: 326 610 433 473 8
Passcode: Hy9Kp9Pf
August 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
📣Soil cluster seminar: "Disentangling the soil-plant microbiome nexus for beneficial solutions: from biostimulants to xenobiotics degradation" 🦠 from Prof. Eduardo Puglisi
☑️9th September
☑️10 to 11 am
☑️GAIA building room B001
For joining on Teams:
Meeting ID: 326 610 433 473 8
Passcode: Hy9Kp9Pf
☑️9th September
☑️10 to 11 am
☑️GAIA building room B001
For joining on Teams:
Meeting ID: 326 610 433 473 8
Passcode: Hy9Kp9Pf
✨Twenty publications in the Soil Science Cluster in the last 3 months🎉 You can find here a nice wordcloud with the words in the titles, many different topics dealt with!☁️
June 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
✨Twenty publications in the Soil Science Cluster in the last 3 months🎉 You can find here a nice wordcloud with the words in the titles, many different topics dealt with!☁️
📣New doctor alert! Yesterday, Yifan Huang (SOC group) successfully defended his thesis entitled "Modelling and Predicting Cadmium Speciation in Soil Mixed with Biochar: From Microscopic Mechanisms to Macroscopic Effects" 🎉
Two of his chapters have been published: lnkd.in/e-SHWwCY & lnkd.in/egJReDrr!
Two of his chapters have been published: lnkd.in/e-SHWwCY & lnkd.in/egJReDrr!
June 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
📣New doctor alert! Yesterday, Yifan Huang (SOC group) successfully defended his thesis entitled "Modelling and Predicting Cadmium Speciation in Soil Mixed with Biochar: From Microscopic Mechanisms to Macroscopic Effects" 🎉
Two of his chapters have been published: lnkd.in/e-SHWwCY & lnkd.in/egJReDrr!
Two of his chapters have been published: lnkd.in/e-SHWwCY & lnkd.in/egJReDrr!
✨Can Citizen Science and others public engagement approaches strengthen soil-human relationships?
Giulia Bongiorno, lecturer/researcher (SBL) & outreach coordinator for the @soilclusterwur.bsky.social shared the public engagement activities that we are involved in. Contact her if you are interested!
Giulia Bongiorno, lecturer/researcher (SBL) & outreach coordinator for the @soilclusterwur.bsky.social shared the public engagement activities that we are involved in. Contact her if you are interested!
June 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
✨Can Citizen Science and others public engagement approaches strengthen soil-human relationships?
Giulia Bongiorno, lecturer/researcher (SBL) & outreach coordinator for the @soilclusterwur.bsky.social shared the public engagement activities that we are involved in. Contact her if you are interested!
Giulia Bongiorno, lecturer/researcher (SBL) & outreach coordinator for the @soilclusterwur.bsky.social shared the public engagement activities that we are involved in. Contact her if you are interested!
📣In the context of the PhD defense of Enno Sonntag (SBL) on Friday 27th, we have the pleasure to receive Cecilia Lalander from SLU in Sweden, who will give a talk this Thursday (26th) from 15:30 to 16:15 (Forum B0621) about:
“Are insects a sustainable feed ingredient?”🐜
Hope to see you there!!
“Are insects a sustainable feed ingredient?”🐜
Hope to see you there!!
June 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
📣In the context of the PhD defense of Enno Sonntag (SBL) on Friday 27th, we have the pleasure to receive Cecilia Lalander from SLU in Sweden, who will give a talk this Thursday (26th) from 15:30 to 16:15 (Forum B0621) about:
“Are insects a sustainable feed ingredient?”🐜
Hope to see you there!!
“Are insects a sustainable feed ingredient?”🐜
Hope to see you there!!
📣Don't forget this event next Monday 23rd at 12:00! You will hear more about our events connecting science and society!✨
June 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
📣Don't forget this event next Monday 23rd at 12:00! You will hear more about our events connecting science and society!✨
🎉Very nice workshop on public engagement, communication and soil literacy last week in collaboration with Stephan Mantel from ISRIC during the Soil@WUR day! Bulding a community here 💪🎉
June 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
🎉Very nice workshop on public engagement, communication and soil literacy last week in collaboration with Stephan Mantel from ISRIC during the Soil@WUR day! Bulding a community here 💪🎉
Join our interactive PhD course 'Human induced Land Degradation'
💬 Discuss 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘆𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
🌐 Work in an 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆, 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽
🚍 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 with experts and stakeholders
3-11 October 2025, Portugal
Places are limited, reserve a spot!
💬 Discuss 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘆𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
🌐 Work in an 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆, 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽
🚍 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 with experts and stakeholders
3-11 October 2025, Portugal
Places are limited, reserve a spot!
June 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Join our interactive PhD course 'Human induced Land Degradation'
💬 Discuss 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘆𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
🌐 Work in an 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆, 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽
🚍 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 with experts and stakeholders
3-11 October 2025, Portugal
Places are limited, reserve a spot!
💬 Discuss 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘆𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
🌐 Work in an 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆, 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽
🚍 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 with experts and stakeholders
3-11 October 2025, Portugal
Places are limited, reserve a spot!
✨Yesterday we organized a workshop on Art and Soil for the ArtMeetScience program at WUR in the ISRIC soil museum🎨🖌️...very inspiring seeing how participants liked it and connected with soils! Also adults like to be creative!
More events will take place during the month of art of WUR, stay tuned!🪱🦠🐜
More events will take place during the month of art of WUR, stay tuned!🪱🦠🐜
June 11, 2025 at 6:04 AM
✨Yesterday we organized a workshop on Art and Soil for the ArtMeetScience program at WUR in the ISRIC soil museum🎨🖌️...very inspiring seeing how participants liked it and connected with soils! Also adults like to be creative!
More events will take place during the month of art of WUR, stay tuned!🪱🦠🐜
More events will take place during the month of art of WUR, stay tuned!🪱🦠🐜
📣Last Monday we participated again in the ArtMeetsScience project 🎨 with a nice little sharing moment by Giulia Bongiorno (SBL) and with the Artistic-scientific collaboration between the Soil cluster and the artist Trijnie Goudriaan. The exhibition is in IMPULSE and will be there until August!
June 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
📣Last Monday we participated again in the ArtMeetsScience project 🎨 with a nice little sharing moment by Giulia Bongiorno (SBL) and with the Artistic-scientific collaboration between the Soil cluster and the artist Trijnie Goudriaan. The exhibition is in IMPULSE and will be there until August!
🎉Last weekend another fantastic day at the Aardbewoners Festival at Artis in Amsterdam with the Bodemdierandagen! So many kids and adults enthusiastic about soil biodiversity!🦠🪱🐛🐜 Don't forget to upload the data on the website! bodemdierendagen.nl/nl
June 3, 2025 at 5:26 AM
🎉Last weekend another fantastic day at the Aardbewoners Festival at Artis in Amsterdam with the Bodemdierandagen! So many kids and adults enthusiastic about soil biodiversity!🦠🪱🐛🐜 Don't forget to upload the data on the website! bodemdierendagen.nl/nl
📣🎉Join the the Month of Art @WUR in June! Also the Soil Science cluster will be participating with an inspiring art-science collaboration and workshops about soil (of course ;) )!🎨🖌️
May 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
📣🎉Join the the Month of Art @WUR in June! Also the Soil Science cluster will be participating with an inspiring art-science collaboration and workshops about soil (of course ;) )!🎨🖌️
Interested in soil outreach activities? Join the upcoming World of Soils lecture at the ISRIC World Soil Museum: "Soil and people connected through different perspectives - a soil biologist's journey" by Giulia Bongiorno from the SBL group.
📆 11 June
⏰ 12:25-13:00
🔗 Register: lnkd.in/eCNCuHzQ
📆 11 June
⏰ 12:25-13:00
🔗 Register: lnkd.in/eCNCuHzQ
May 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Interested in soil outreach activities? Join the upcoming World of Soils lecture at the ISRIC World Soil Museum: "Soil and people connected through different perspectives - a soil biologist's journey" by Giulia Bongiorno from the SBL group.
📆 11 June
⏰ 12:25-13:00
🔗 Register: lnkd.in/eCNCuHzQ
📆 11 June
⏰ 12:25-13:00
🔗 Register: lnkd.in/eCNCuHzQ
✨Yesterday we shared our enthusiasm about soil biodiversity with the Wageningen crowd during the WUR Biodiversity Challenge🪱🌱. Amazing to see kids and adult of every age so interested in soil organisms! A bit thank for the organization, Lisa van Sluijs from Nematology and Loes van Schaik from SLM!🎉🚀
May 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
✨Yesterday we shared our enthusiasm about soil biodiversity with the Wageningen crowd during the WUR Biodiversity Challenge🪱🌱. Amazing to see kids and adult of every age so interested in soil organisms! A bit thank for the organization, Lisa van Sluijs from Nematology and Loes van Schaik from SLM!🎉🚀