Ik mocht aanschuiven in de wielerpodcast Tweewielers van Herman van der Zandt en Martijn Hendriks ! En dat was een aangenaam verpozen 😃👇🏽

Vannacht was ik te gast bij NTR Wetenschap met Stijn Goossens voor een lang gesprek over geologie en de belang ervan in de veranderende samenleving!👇🏽 nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/de-…

Last blog of the men’s #TourdeFrance2024!

Last clip of the men’s Tour! Marjolein Naudé takes it away!

And of course we have the Geology of the #ParisOlympics2024 for you!

Bosson Glacier on Mont Blanc. Spectacular view!

Here’s a treat to spice up your TdFF previews and reports!

Here we go again!

TdFF 2024 - stage 1! The race starts in the west of the Netherlands, in Rotterdam. Not only a place for the world’s top female bike riders to start, but also the location of one of the largest harbors of the world. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, our partners in Geology of the Tour de France crime,

Nice Carboniferous granite weathering at Sidobre, French Massif Central 🤠

In the south of Limburg we do not only have the hills we know from the classics Amstel Gold Race and Liège-Bastogne-Liège but we also have the Meuse river, or Mosa in Latin. It is the name giver of a beast that used to swim in the Jurassic seas over here many millions of years

When the riders climb Geulhemmerberg during stage 4 of the TdFF, they pass along the rock layer that recorded the extinction of the dinosaurs. Special guest presenter Melanie During, MSc. ⛏🦕🦖🦩🍉 of Uppsala universitet takes you underground to explain to you what happened the day the dinosaurs died.

Today’s stage finishes in the Jura mountains. If you could peek back ~201 million years, you can picture lava flows covering whole countries. Dinosaurs fleeing the lava and high extinction rates in the oceans due to acidification. This event forms the global stratigraphic

Thank you all for your interest during this 2024 Tour de France season. We hope you liked our clips, and we have much more to tell you for the 2025 season. But we can't do that without your help. So if you wanna see Douwe van Hinsbergen and Marjolein Naudé back for another round, consider

During stage 7 of #LaVuelta24 , the peloton will take a beautiful geological excursion through an 'orogen' that formed at a plate contact. Basically, an orogen is the crumple zone at the contact between two plates, where one bulldozered over the other. In this case, a small

Storm is coming…

My teacher Hugo de Boorder passed away this week, 88 years old. Hugo was a beautiful, calm character, with a great sense of humor. He breathed geology. And in 2020, I had the pleasure to publish with him on economic geology and geodynamics of New Guinea. We'll miss you old man.

I had a great crew of scientists from China visiting our department last year! Yongfa and Shihua Xu are leaving us, sadly, but friendships and collaborations will continue! Thanks guys! Teng

ERC proposal writing time! The chemistry and synergy is great again 😃. Let’s get the money and take off! 🏝️🤘⚒️🌎🧪 With Arwen Deuss

Another one of my teachers has passed away 😢. Professor Theo Wong died in Paramaribo, Surinam, age 78. Theo's contributions to geology in science in Surinam were enormous, and he was one of the friendliest souls that I know. Rest in peace, professor.