And we're off to a good start! Plenty of Ecosystem & Landscape Dynamics (ELD) department members at the #NAC2024 🌍

The UvA Amsterdam has opened a fund to provide assistance in Gaza. You can read more about it and donate here:
medewerker.uva.nl/en/executive-s…

Jord Muffels, MSc. student UvA Faculty of Science, has created an e-learning tool 'Getting rid of barriers' to help lecturers make their teaching material accessible to all!
If you'd like to check it out: rise.articulate.com/share/2fUtJWAh…

On Friday, January 26th, Giuditta Beretta will defend her PhD thesis entitled 'Surviving the Greenhouse: Thrips, Biocontrol, Antipredator Behaviours and Plant-mediated Interactions'. The ceremony will be held at De Aula in Amsterdam at 11am.
Good luck! 🕷️

After a long meeting at IBED, the PE&RC PhD Council went to Oceaan for the well deserved annual Christmas dinner.
Happy holidays everyone! 🎄🎁🎆

I'm very happy and proud that we have ended the year with two very interesting IBED seminars: my former supervisor Prof. Michael Bruen from University College Dublin on decision support tools and Prof. Luuk Dorren from Berner Fachhochschule on hazard risk management.

Yesterday I was at the Scientist Rebellion Netherlands documentary screening on civil disobedience, and Fabian Dablander and Eileen Enderle leaded a very interesting discussion! 🌍

Very interesting lecture on paleoecology and island biodiversity by Sandra Nogué for our IBED Seminars on Thursday!

Thursday was the PE&RC Day 2023 on Disease Ecology with interesting presentations by Wim van der Poel, Helen Esser and Marjolein Bruijning.
Congratulations again to Nina for winning the Call for Institutional Collaboration! 🥳

Today I joined Mariana Gliesch and Leonardo Hinojosa on the field to collect 120 samples from their drought experiments; it was a lot of work but also a lot of fun! 🌱🌧️

This and last week I worked in the labs of Utrecht University to measure the zeta potential of my floc solutions. The collaboration with Alemeh Karami, who I met at the NAC Conference in March, is going really well and the results are promising!

Great lecture today by
Elisabeth H Krueger on avoiding sustainability tradeoffs in the energy transition during the Future of Energy seminars

Nice time today with IBED seminar speaker Heribert Insam hosted by Edith J. S. Eder on an exciting new microbiology museum coming to Austria!! mikrobalpina.org/en/standort-ko…

Today I attended two very interesting lectures through the Future of Energy network: Prof Bruno Ehrler presented his work on the use of Perovskites for solar power and Prof. Joyeeta Gupta talked about how as a society we can stop using fossil fuels.

It was nice getting to see everyone again after the long summer break at IBED 's Pizza Party 🍕☀️