Summer solstice sunset in lovely Aci Castello, preparing for this year’s SOB4ES consortium meeting - www.sob4es.eu

Happy summer solstice ☀️

Soils on Stage at @nerdland.be festival! So honoured to share the stage with @maikadekeyzer.bsky.social at the biggest science festival in the country, talking about the determining role of 💩 and soil fertility in history! #proudnerd

@kuleuvenplantinst.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

Proud winner of “de bodemschep”, the (only) award for raising soil awareness in Flanders 😄 - www.vlaanderen.be/open-ruimte-...

Getting ready for the Day of the Young Soil Scientist, one of the flagship activities of the Soil Science Society of Belgium. So excited to see what our upcoming talents have been working on!! #SSSB #IUSS #soil

Proud to be a small part of the 600 year legacy! #KULeuven

Looking the part for the Grond+Zaken soil forum of the Flemish government today!

Happy World Soil Day! So grateful that my job is to mess around in the mud in the most spectacular places with the greatest team of talented individuals in the world. Thanks for all the knowledge and thanks for all the fun ❤️

In the struggle between work and time with my family, I ended up dragging my kids along so often that they are pretty well-trained soil surveyers by now 😄

Yeah, sadly we’ve got that problem too… PhD researcher Keunbae Kim is working on it - results so far are pretty scary 🫣. Paper almost ready for submission 🤞

Project funded by a EU LEADER grand

Grasslands in Flanders are sources rather than sinks of greenhouse gases 😩. A climate -smart management can curb the trend, but outcomes depend on soil context. PhD researcher Robin Tersago presented his findings to farmers and other stakeholders yesterday 👍

Exciting new Enset-agroforestry experiment by my team members Admasu Yirgalem and Dr. Gezahegn Garo of Arba Minch University! Plants and shade houses turned out amazing, fingers crossed there will be no hailstorms, frost spells, flash floods or baboons this time 🫣🤦‍♀️. Thanks VLIR-UOS for the funding 👍

Thank you @mwischmidt.bsky.social for a wonderful day in Zürich, discussing soil organic matter persistence!

Congrats Stef Haesen for a very nice PhD defence on micro-climate in forests, and for putting whole trees on your slides, not just the top part 😉!

Happy World Soil Day ! #Superb

Teach ‘em young! Sampling soil fauna for sob4es.eu