👏 👏 🎉 🎉 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

📃🪱🪨 Have you ever thought about the role that not just living, but even dead earthworms play in carbon capture through mineral weathering? 🪱🪨 🧨Check out the newly fresh paper, published in Nature communications earth and environment led by our PhD student Tullia Calogiuri ➡️ lnkd.in/e5P8ucpc

📃Publication "Sustainable intensification: time to question the goal of ever-increasing agricultural production" Gabriel Moinet (SBL) et al. Land use intensity effect on soil multifunctionality? Challenging the claims that productivity can increase without trade-offs www.scopus.com/pages/public...

🪱🪱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!

The project Benchmarks is calling all soil science experts in EU working on soil function models in agricultural, forest & urban systems🌾🌳🏙️ Help shape a science-based framework for soil health assessment by completing a questionnaire by 30 October 2025 👉 Questionnaire here lnkd.in/eDgkSJqF

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!

📣Publication alert: "Impacts of Nano- and Microplastic Contamination on Soil Organisms and Soil-Plant Systems" By Davi Munhoz&Nicolas Beirot (SLM) Nano- & microplastics have detrimental effects on soil organisms&plants that vary according to various factors. More info: www.mdpi.com/2673-8929/4/...

⁉️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]

📣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...

🎉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...

🎉Last week first observation together with NIOO, on their beautiful green rooftop, for the Bodemdierendagen! It was great success & we manage to find the tiny ten🪱🐛🐜 ..but also the little eleven🦠✨! Take your observation, is your turn now! How many soil organisms will you find? bodemdierendagen.nl/nl

🎉📣Come to Weekend of science hotspot on the 5th October🎉. Many outreach activities for the whole family organized at the Lumen/Gaia building from 10:00 a.m. till the afternoon✨! Soil, earthworms, plants, roots, genetics..all to discover in one place🪱🌱🦠🐜! 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!

📢 🪱 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!

✨A big thank you to all the participants and lecturers of the Soil Biology Lab skills course for assessing soil functions 🪱🦠🌱! A week full of exchanges, discussions, activities, learning and networking! Looking forward to the next edition!🎉

🎉📣Amazing activity linking soil and music! don't miss it!

📣ART&SOIL ALERT ⁉️ Studio Metaform & our PhD candidate Doina Mani will take you into the invisible world of nematodes and their ecological stories. 🎼 Join Singing Soil @ EnergieKas, The Hague, Sept 25, 2025, Free Admission via this link: lnkd.in/e7VKAUfR Listening Session, Workshop, Co-creation

📣🎉New interesting publication led by Rozita Soltani Tehrani on the effects of wastewater irrigation on soil in green spaces💧🌱! Rozita just defended her PhD with the Soil geography group🎉 Check out the paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣Are you an expert in soil science, sustainability, or project evaluation? The EU project SoilTribes looks for professionals to review applications for innovative soil initiatives. Your expertise will help in selecting the most impactful projects✨! 📝 Apply by Sept 12 2025. More info lnkd.in/dYh4Ct7

The earth is dotted with all kinds of earthworks, such as dikes, dwelling mound & ancient field systems EARTHWORK dates Dutch earthworks with luminescence dating under the lead of SGL www.project-earthwork.nl Storymap: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b97a... storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1898...

🪱 Publication Announcement! 🌱🍄‍🟫 Book chapter “Soil biology, health and ecosystem services: an overview”. We detail the process of selecting indicators to assess soil health in agricultural systems, applied to four key soil functions. 📂 Open access link: lnkd.in/eXW6VQzu Have a nice read!

📣Great job opportunity about Sustainable soil management practices with the Soil physics and land management group under the direction of Luuk Fleskens: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

📢 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 📚 🎉 Exploring the relationship between land abandonment and landscape identity in traditional cultural landscapes: the case of Castelsaraceno, Italy Interesting collaboration co-authored by Soil physics and land management group: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🎓Interdisciplinary Post-Graduate Course Human Induced Land Degradation: Problems – Challenges – Solutions 8 September 2025 (Wageningen) 3 – 11 October 2025 (Portugal) www.wur.nl/en/activity/... Please feel free to inscribe via [email protected]

📣Philip Minderhoud, Associate Professor Coastal-deltaic Land Subsidence and Relative Sea-Level Rise in the Soil Science Cluster (SGL), is being interviewed in a podcast about Sinking Cities by ABC national radio Australia: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

📣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

📣 Exciting opportunity to get your ideas and activities about soil granted and going 💡 ! Have a look at the possibilities offered by the SoilTribes project! ✨ Find them here: soiltribes.eu/grants/ and more info here: www.linkedin.com/company/soil...

Interesting paper about nematode-based indices led by PhD student Doina Mani (SBL and SGL)! Have a nice read!

📣We are hiring a PhD candidate to work on modeling soil processes in regenerative agriculture 🌱 If you have experience in process-based modeling and a background in agriculture, we invite you to apply. Deadline, September 30, 2025. More info here: lnkd.in/eGFJktsN

📢 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 📚 📚 📚 🌟🎉Dynamic soil water retention properties: Exploring the interplay of moisture states and soil structure dynamics in a compacted Andosol This is an OpenAccess publication led by the SLM group: 👉🔗 lnkd.in/evVByn2F

📣Publication alert: “Can University Campuses Be Urban Living Labs? Case Study of Soil and Tree Functions at Wageningen University Green Area” 🌱 congratulations to the student Robin van Velthuijsen and the team from SOC and SGL! Find here the article: dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejss...

✨Artist Annabel Quick filmed researchers at the Netherlands Centre for Luminescence dating (NCL-SGL) working with soil samples to date sand grains. The video is now part of the installation 'Standfast, landfast, lightfast' Pulchri Studio, The Hague, 21 June-13 July: www.pulchri.nl/nl/tentoonst...

📣 Paper alert: publications led by PhD Jonas Schepens at the Soil Biology group (SBL) on SOC accrual in relation to management practices in northwest Europe. Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 New Publication from Soil Chemistry Group. Led by Frank van Raffe with Bert-Jan Groenenberg and Rob Comans, this paper looks at Chromium binding to Organic matter by deriving new parameters for the NICA-Donnan model. Have a look at the full paper here: lnkd.in/edHbp8rm

🌱 Wageningen University & Research is hiring at the Soil Science Cluster! 🌍 We are looking for a full professor and chair of the Soil Physics and Land Management (SLM) group — a team with an outstanding international reputation in research and education. Please share! 🔗 lnkd.in/e5BeZ9gS

✨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!

✨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!

📣♻️ Turning dairy processing waste into phosphorus fertilizer? Absolutely — with a little help from soil microbes! 🌱 Dive into the final chapter of Angel Velasco-Sánchez’s PhD thesis @geoderma.bsky.social, also with Gabriel Moinet and @jwvangroenigen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣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!!

📣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 💪🎉

Don't miss the event organized by FAO about pesticide residues: www.fao.org/global-soil-... Important contributions from researchers from the Soil Physics and Land management group of the Soil cluster!

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!

✨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!🪱🦠🐜

📣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!

📣Do you want to know more about the SOILTRIBES community, an European funded project about soil literacy📃🪱? We invite you to subscribe to the SOILTRIBES newsletter that will keep you updated on project activities, community insights, and upcoming opportunities✨! Subscription link: shorturl.at/Kl3rL

📢 New Publication from Soil Chemistry Group Wageningen by our recent PhD Dr.Guusje Koorneef, focusing on understanding the dynamic of Soil Organic Matter in conventional and organic farming practices. Have a look below for full paper. 👏 👏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🎉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 ;) )!🎨🖌️