Welcome to the website of the Department of Soil Quality.
Our department participates in the WUR - Soil Science Centre and it consists of two chair groups: Soil Biology & Biological Soil Quality and Soil Chemistry & Chemical Soil Quality.
Research: The chair groups cooperate in much of the research, partly overlapping with their own research foci:
Joint research
Research Soil Biology and Biological Soil Quality
Research Soil Chemistry and Chemical Soil Quality
Education: The chair groups participate in the following BSc and MSc programs:
BSc Soil, Water, Atmosphere
BSc Environmental Sciences
BSc Plant Sciences
MSc Soil Science, MSc Environmental Sciences
MSc Climate Studies, MSc Biology, MSc Organic agriculture
Our professors:
L. Brussaard (soil biology and biological soil quality; group leader)
T. Kuyper (fungal ecology and diversity; personal chair)
W. de Boer (microbial soil Ecology)
O. Oenema (management of nutrients and soil fertility)
W.H. van Riemsdijk (soil chemistry and chemical soil quality; group leader)
R. Comans (environmental geochemistry)
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