KNGMG Royal Geological and Mining Society of the Netherlands

📣 Register now for the 50 year celebration event of Ingeokring 🎉! Ingeokring is the engineering geology chapter of KNGMG and their event is part of a double celebration together with the 60th anniversary of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment! When: Friday 22 November Where: at TU Delft | Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft The event is free of charge, you can register here: https://lnkd.in/exbmtf6g Featured speakers: -Helen Reeves (IAEG-president): Engineering Geology: Bringing the UN Sustainable Development Goals closer! -Denise Maljers (TNO): Dinoloket: Data for People, Present and Future -Joek P. (Fugro): Journey from marine site investigations to augmented reality -Plus talks of Jacco Haasnoot (CRUX Engineering BV), Ronald Brinkgreve (PLAXIS Geotechnical Analysis), Guillaume Rongier (TU Delft), and others -Gaming by Pierre-Olivier Bruna (TU Delft):  Back to Falset for a (virtual) rock mass characterization - Award ceremonies -Plenty of networking and social time

📢 New paper alert! - Marvellous Maastrichtian miners For the first time, Lothar H. Vallon and co-authors publish a bioerosional trace fossil inventory for the Nekum and Meerssen members of the Maastricht Formation. The trace fossils are preserved as natural casts whilst their host substrates have been dissolved. The more than 20 ichnospecies record a beautifully preserved successive colonisation sequence. Read the paper here: ➡️ https://lnkd.in/evNzbZ5E Image: Figure 5 from the paper.

𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟮 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰: 𝗜𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗼𝗸𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴/𝗧𝗨 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗳𝘁 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗺𝗻 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝘑𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺! • Date: 22nd November 2024, Welcome drinks & symposium from 13:00 to 17:30 | After symposium drinks & snacks from 17:30 to 19:30 • Location: TU Delft, Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences, Stevinweg 1, NL-2628 CN Delft, Hall A The activity is organized as part of celebrations for a double anniversary: the 50 years of Ingeokring and the 60 years of International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment The event is free of charge, but to join the event, please register here: https://lnkd.in/e-VCAf_x 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 ⚒️  • Helen Reeves, IAEG Vice-President Northern Europe, Director & Head of Discipline for Geoscience & Engineering Geology TGE (Europe), Jacobs, UK | Engineering Geology: Bringing the UN Sustainable Development Goals closer! • Denise Maljers, Research Manager, TNO | Dinoloket: Data for People, Present and Future • Joost van der Schrier, RHDHV, Jacco Haasnoot, CRUX Engineering, Ronald Brinkgreve, PLAXIS, Seequent and TU Delft, Guillaume Rongier, TU Delft, Applied Geology, and Tom de Gast, Waterschap Hollandse Delta/TU Delft | 360° discussion on the superpower of cone penetration tests • Joek P. Peuchen, Manager of Engineering, Fugro | Journey from marine site investigations to augmented reality 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 🏅 🎂 • 60th Anniversary of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment • 50th Anniversary of Ingeokring • Niek Rengers, past IAEG President, recipient of the 2024 Hans Cloos Medal • Peter Verhoef, new honorary member of INGEOKRING • Recipient of the 2022-2024 Ingeokring best MSc thesis Award   𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴🎈 • Welcome drinks ☕️ • Coffee & birthday cake break 🎂 • Gaming by Pierre-Olivier Bruna, TU Delft, Applied Geology | Back to Falset for a (virtual) rock mass characterization!  • After-symposium drinks & snacks in the exhibition room, next to the MV office 🧀

The sedimentologische kring is one of our very active associations ('kringen'). Send them a message if you'd like to join their next field trip!

Today, I had the pleasure of attending highly insightful presentations by expert scientists at the KNGMG Royal Geological and Mining Society of the Netherlands #Symposium_2024, held at TNO, #Utrecht. The honorary #Staring_Lecture—a commemoration of #Winand_Staring (1808—1877), the founder of geology in the Netherlands—was delivered by #Prof. #Esther_Stouthamer, focusing on #Quaternary #Rivers and #Deltas. Her presentation highlighted the complex history and dynamics of these systems in general, and in the #Rhine_Meuse delta in particular, which have shaped the current landscape as we see it today. A special thanks to all the organizers and moderators, especially Kay Koster, for their efforts in making this #KNGMG symposium a remarkable one!

🖊️LANDELIJKE PETITIE EN ACTIE TEGEN BEZUINIGINGEN HOGER ONDERWIJS 🖊️ 🌍 Onze samenleving heeft goed opgeleide mensen nodig om onze huidige problemen aan te pakken. Van de klimaatcrisis tot de woningnood, van medische ontdekkingen tot voedselveiligheid. 💸 De aangekondigde bezuinigingen van 1 MILJARD euro stoken volledig met het beeld van Nederland als kenniseconomie. Dit zijn de grootste bezuinigingen van de afgelopen decennia, wat een directe negatieve impact zal hebben op de Nederlandse samenleving. 📢 Laat je daarom horen!  - Teken deze petitie https://lnkd.in/eiVQxRnc  - Wees aanwezig op de landelijke protestactie van 14 november in Utrecht, georganiseerd door FNV, AOb en WOinActie. 💪🏻 Wij van Red Aardwetenschappen doen mee!

AFTERMOVIE EDUCATIEVE PROTESTACTIE 🌍 Vorige maand zijn studenten, medewerkers, alumni en professionals in groten getale samengekomen op de Campus van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam om hun zorgen te delen over de toekomst van Aardwetenschappen. 🎤 Hier hebben Melanie During, Marit Brommer, Geert Gabriels, Bob Hoogendoorn, Nick Schutgens, Anouk B. en Brecht Reintsema gesproken over het belang van ons vakgebied. 📰 Het Parool heeft een artikel geschreven die de middag goed samenvat. Dat is te lezen via https://lnkd.in/enRqbzku. 📢 Momenteel worden de plannen op de VU over het Aardwetenschappelijke onderwijs en onderzoek geconcretiseerd. Onze vraag aan de VU blijft helder: overweeg om verder te kijken dan alleen de financiën en verantwoordelijkheid te nemen voor de toekomst van Nederland! 🎥 Video door Jur van Gestel

AFTERMOVIE EDUCATIEVE PROTESTACTIE 🌍 Vorige maand zijn studenten, medewerkers, alumni en professionals in groten getale samengekomen op de Campus van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam om hun zorgen te delen over de toekomst van Aardwetenschappen. 🎤 Hier hebben Melanie During, Marit Brommer, Geert Gabriels, Bob Hoogendoorn, Nick Schutgens, Anouk B. en Brecht Reintsema gesproken over het belang van ons vakgebied. 📰 Het Parool heeft een artikel geschreven die de middag goed samenvat. Dat is te lezen via https://lnkd.in/enRqbzku. 📢 Momenteel worden de plannen op de VU over het Aardwetenschappelijke onderwijs en onderzoek geconcretiseerd. Onze vraag aan de VU blijft helder: overweeg om verder te kijken dan alleen de financiën en verantwoordelijkheid te nemen voor de toekomst van Nederland! 🎥 Video door Jur van Gestel

The special issue ‘Land Subsidence in the Netherlands’ is now open for submissions!! This special issue is part of the Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, with Sanneke van Asselen (Deltares) and me as guest-editors: Land subsidence in coastal areas poses a major hazard, as it increases flood risk and damages vital infrastructure, buildings and cultural heritage. It also results in prolonged periods of soils being too wet for arable use, and affects the environment by groundwater salinization. Land subsidence due to peat decomposition also leads to greenhouse gas emissions. Different processes acting at different depths in the subsurface contribute to land subsidence. The Netherlands is largely naturally subsiding through tectonics and isostasy, with human-induced subsidence processes by for instance groundwater management and mining superimposed on that. Often, human-induced subsidence rates are at least an order of magnitude higher than natural subsidence rates. Subsidence rates are highly variable in time and space, depending on various factors including subsurface composition, present and historical human activities and meteorological conditions. In the low-lying coastal zones of the Netherlands, the effects of land subsidence are becoming increasingly important, especially because of climate change, the energy transition, and urbanization. For instance, changing land use and water systems, or the use of subsurface renewable energy sources, may create new subsidence hot spots. Therefore, understanding subsidence processes, predicting future rates at different scales and time intervals, and understanding their impact is crucial. This special issue aims to bring together various disciplines working on land subsidence in the Netherlands, to provide an overview of the wide variety of research conducted in this field. Land subsidence is intertwined with our past, present, and future, both in natural systems and our socio-economical world, making it a multi-disciplinary topic. We invite professionals from all disciplines working on land subsidence in the Netherlands to contribute to this special issue. We welcome the following papers:   - Research articles: new research focusing on relevant topics within the field of land subsidence in the Netherlands - Literature reviews: literature overview to come to new insights in land subsidence in the Netherlands - Position papers: new research initiatives, opinions, lessons learned using new techniques etc. - Technical reports: short reports on current projects, advancements in industry and policy, case studies and data sets. For more info, visit: https://lnkd.in/eNiuZGpJ 📷 : Deltares

📢 New paper alert! - Belemnites, Time and Environmental Change The first thing Norbert Keutgen and Zbyszek Remin do in their paper that forms part of the Maastricht Special Issue, is to put the Campanian/Maastrichtian boundary as defined in France in the context of the Cretaceous belemnite stratigraphy. Then, they also demonstrate how environmental changes during the Maastrichtian caused one belemnite species to gradually replace the other, sweeping across Europe from east to west - clearly showing that there is a diachronous element in putting an age to first and last occurrences. Read the paper here: ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ePyn3Hbd Image: Figure 7 from the paper.