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(Citizen) science café soil
Do you want to know more about the life under our feet? Are you curious about soil animals in the Netherlands? During the (Citizen) Science café on 3 December, all this will be discussed. Here, Ron de Goede, Paul Bodelier and Froukje Rienks, among others, will discuss life in the soil. -
Societal Advisory Board will help to connect ecological knowledge with society
Societal developments with a link to ecology and ecological research are easy to find. How can the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) support these? How will we share and use ecological knowledge? To achieve this, the institute will from now on receive help from the new Societal Advisory Board. -
Algae & soil animals at Wajo! Science Festival
This weekend it's the National Science Weekend in the Netherlands! The KNAW is organising a fun science festival for kids and parents. NIOO colleagues will join to show the wonders of algae and soil animals. -
Soil, live! - Soil animal concert & Torch safari
This year we are celebrating an anniversary: the Soil Animal Days (Bodemdierendagen) are ten years old! In September we are starting our citizen science project again. To give this 10th anniversary an extra festive touch, we will start this edition with a very special evening. -
Soil animals as guests at Klokhuis
Watch the Klokhuis episode airing on 28 May, where NIOO will put soil animals in the spotlight. The episode will air between 18:40 and 18:55 on NPO3, or you can watch it later on hetklokhuis.nl or NPO start. -
Art x Science
Art x Science -
Earthworms winners of humid 2023 & Leeuwarden bags the title Soil Animal City of the Year
Spring has started in the Netherlands, and that means our soil life is very active again. How much do we know of the creatures living under our feet? That is where the citizen science project of the Soil Animal Days comes in. What did the results of 2023 show us? Earthworms like wet weather and managed to retain their position in the national soil animals Top 3: they were spotted in 87% of gardens. And in Leeuwarden, people searched for soil animals with such enthusiasm and a clear focus on the importance of soil animals that the Frisian capital may proudly call itself Soil Animal City of the Year. -
The Centre for Soil Ecology goes national
Today, on World Soil Day, it is the perfect moment to present the new National Centre for Soil Ecology. All soil ecologists working in the Netherlands can now connect to the initiative that originally started in Wageningen. -
National Soil Animal Days 2024
Every year around World Animal Day, we go on safari in our own gardens looking for the important but often overlooked soil animals. This year marks the 10th edition of the Soil Animal Days. -
Kick off meeting National Centre for Soil Ecology
The Centre for Soil Ecology (CSE) was established in 2010 by NIOO-KNAW and WUR to bring together soil ecologists in Wageningen. However, as soil ecology is happening all across the Netherlands, there is need to transform the CSE into a National Centre for Soil Ecology (NCSE) to connect soil ecologists across the Netherlands.