3 months of failed attempts but finally some progress on pressing our own salt samples from NaCl powder #teamSalt not yet perfect but at least it doesn't crumble...

Our former postdoc Kai Li started his new job at KIT Karlsruhe already in January, but nonetheless he has been diligently working on publishing his postdoc "Effects of confined thermal cycling on sealants with different thermomechanical properties for #CCS" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's basalt time! Working on a few samples for Njord Oslo, who invited Anne to join their trip to PSI in November to shoot neutrons at rocks again

Team Salt on the move! Brazilian disc testing with camera plus acoustics on healed samples fractured last spring 🤓😁

Tonight our team caught the last rays of the summer sun in the pretty area of Meijendel, near the beach 🥰

Former PD Debanjan Chandra is visiting from Norway to run experiments with an #EPOS-NL grant and he is explaining his new experiments whilst monitoring his stuff. Multi-tasking at its finest!

A first attempt at cold pressing our own salt samples, which will be baked afterwards for Jops PhD project. If anyone has any tips, we gladly take them!

Want to come break rocks with us? Or scan some of your pretty samples? Apply for #EPOS funding! epos-nl.nl/facilities/

Even more proud as a supervisor: he won the best presentation prize ❤️🤓💪💪💪

Proud of our postdoc Milad Naderloo, presenting his work on sandstone-H2 interaction at the #hydrogenstorage summer school!

@entelakane.bsky.social branching out from geothermal energy to H2 storage ❤️🤓

The last batch of experiments for @entelakane.bsky.social will take place in Utrecht at TNO, thanks to #EPOSNL funding 🤓

Question to those rock crushing people out there: how long do you keep your post-experimental samples after a project finished? Here we are contemplating 2-5 years post-publication.... Though the thought of tossing those beauties away pains us :( we are seriously struggling for space!

Almost back home after looking at broken rocks with our 2nd year BSc students in France. Also for lab rats it's energizing to see faults in their natural habitat!

At this year's #EAGEAnnual2025 my colleague Anne gave a truly passionate and compassionate pitch why #geoscience #education needs to become more inclusive and diverse if we are serious about inspiring new talents to enter this field and work on the #energytransition @rockdeftud.bsky.social ⚒️💡🔋

It's a bit quiet on here, since Anne is in the field with our 2nd year students :) now in the train to EAGE for a panel discussion about education in geosciences in these times of energy transition...

More BSc thesis time! Jesse worked today with BSc Iris to scan the heterogeneous Rotliegend cores .. always good to scan before breaking! #breakingrocks #rocks

We made use of the spring weather to do a lab&friends BBQ at Anne's place, including our wonderful BSc and MSc students... Always good to have good food and good company!

Not a basket full of cookies but a small box of different types of saw cut Dinantian samples. If I were a grandmother, it'd be totally my kind of gift!

PhD Jesse came by in the afternoon and made my day with these freshly cored heterogeneous #Rotliegend #sandstone samples for #CrossScale w/ @geoenergyprof.bsky.social Aren't they pretty? Next: cutting them (and deciding where...), CT scan, porosimetry and then... Break them! 😎😎 #breakingrocks #rocks

Interested in #CCS? Our colleagues Denis Voskov and Rouhi Farajzadeh are organising the 11th edition of the CCUS summer school 30 June to 4 July. Subscriptions until 15 May www.tudelft.nl/citg/over-fa...

Meanwhile in Delft the thesis season is in full swing... Sybrand is now nicely into obtaining his Brazilian disc dataset on salt samples for his BSc thesis with Jop and Shihao

Today it was former PD Debanjan Chandra who took the stage, to talk about using sonic velocities to monitor CO2 plume migration #CCS #breakingrocks #rocks

Proud of the current and former team 🤓🤘💪

If you are at #EGU25 and into structural geology, fieldwork, faults, tectonics and thinking about the future of Structural Geology and Tectonics @egu.eu @ts.egu.eu @structuralgeology.bsky.social @joaocduarte.bsky.social , please come to the overarching session discussing the field, at 16h in 0.51!

Today is day 1 for our team! #EGU25 @egu-ere.bsky.social Former PD Evgeniia Martuganova kicks off with poster X4.61 on the North Sea seismic network, vital for #CCS, 1045-1230. At 1525 PD Milad Naderloo talks about the effects of long-term #H2 exposure (6 months) on sst mechanics in -2.31 (purple)

Milad and former postdoc Zhenja are already on their way to #EGU25, Anne will travel tomorrow. Former postdoc Debanjan is on its way from Norway. What are your must-sees this week? @egu.eu

Demonstrations against budget cuts at #TUDelft in the relay-demonstrations. Happy to see pretty much all staff members from our department who are not on holidays

Former postdoc Kai Li and Anne were co-authors to this paper, where we aided by CT scans and interpretation of five different wellbore cements exposed to CO2. Curious which cement is most resistant? Check it out here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This week BSc student Sybrand is helping new PhD Jop to kick off his salt project. First hurdle: sample fabrication... 😅🤓

Proud of our postdoc Milady Naderloo rocking his #DeepNL plenary presentation, arguing the lessons learnt from #InducedSeismicity should not go to waste in #energytransition related scenarios

Half of our team is on its way to the #DeepNL meeting to discuss the latest induced seismicity research happening in the Dutchlands.. due to an ill-timed toddler meltdown (husband left for field teaching early this morning) I missed the connection and am traveling solo. But I have coffee!

#GirlsDay today! On behalf of our Faculty @tudelftceg.bsky.social. We talked about earthquakes, geology & geothermal energy. We used straws to drill geologically layered clay, jumped and registered the "seismic wave" with @phyphox.org and of course we broke a rock! #breakingrocks #rocks 🤓😎

Yesterday I was in beautiful Leiden to advertise our minor #GeoresourcesForTheFuture on their minor market. I passed by these old-style way of harnassing wind and transporting materials. To move towards a sustainable society, we need energy and materials, for which we need geosciences

The ebb and flow of life... Today attending the inaugural lecture of esteemed and appreciated colleague Prof. Hadi Hajibeygi, professor of Geo Energy and Solid and Fluid Mechanics

For Entela and Jip on sawcut samples trying to make reproducible wiggles since the carbonates were too slippery with just sanding paper... Aren't they pretty? This is water jetted. Still needs some tweaking to make perfectly matched ones but should be possible next week! 🤩😎🤓

Amidst all terrible news, I am sad that here it is not better. Today the VU Amsterdam announced they'll cut Earth Sciences, and fire 39 staff. 130 students are left to figure out how to finish, and an unknown number of PhDs lose their supervisors. My heart goes out to my colleagues 😳😥

Campus is beautiful now, with cherry blossoms all over 😍

Lining up for duty.... Tomorrow a 2nd year field trip with 80 participants for our colleague Anne-Catherine. Technician Marc is collecting helmets from all corners of the building and lining them up ever so elegantly 😎

Playing with sand and swelling clay and water and acetone in class to discuss fluid-rock interactions

Just to end the week with something scientific, and not just pictures of sun and flower fields: the concept of the MSc thesis work of Jip, supervised by @entelakane.bsky.social, two mechanically different carbonates snugly together in this saw cut experiment. First tests hopefully next week!

Here's Jesse and Parvin taking a moment before the conference starts to check out the flowers! The right season to come visit us is starting 🥰 from now until mid-May the flower fields are blooming. Always good to take a moment with nature to recharge ☀️🌷

Marc Boxberg of RWTH Aachen is visting our lab in Delft for a month to do some acoustic measurements on his samples. Today he was presenting his work in Delft!

The RockDefTUD team is hard at work at the yearly NWO Dutch conference of earth and environmental sciences 😍🤓 here @entelakane.bsky.social is explaining her latest results

I needed some cheering up so went to the lab to see what's cooking. Entela and Jip made pretty sawcut samples of Dinantian carbonates, and are running Jips first Hoek cell test on a dummy of Indiana limestone. Pretty rocks make life better!

Campus is starting to blossom! Thanks to a bike detour I ran into the first trees bursting into full song this morning

TU Delft students doing some petrophysical measurements in our laboratory! Porosity, permeability, microscopy, acoustics and mechanics on different types of porous rocks. Good to see them being active!!

First trip after maternity leave for Anne, together with @entelakane.bsky.social, Annemarie and Ilshat we visit the Geothermal Alliance Bavaria in Munich, with a special site visit to a local #geothermal plants 😁😁

To all women out there: you are amazing! Happy International women's day 💪

Any lab can only be so good as their technicians... Last week our rock saw broke down. Today our invaluable technician Marc is fixing it so probably tomorrow it is already working again. Our MScs, PhDs and postdocs are not much delayed. Yay for Marc! (And the rest of our awesome tech team!)