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Next to the daily madness here are some things that keep me busy at the moment:
- Both Laura and Michèlle are printing their PhD thesis, which they will defend at VU on 16 October (Laura) and 7 December (Michelle)
- My visit to Japan, where I scanned a loooooong sediment core, which I’m trying to condense into a paper,
- Turning samples that we collected during recent cruises onboard RV Meteor and RV Pelagia into data,
- Editorial work for the journals Aeolian Research and Quaternary International,
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Blogs of past cruises on this website:
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Blogs of past cruises on the NIOZ website:
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May 2019: The paper by Marijke de Bar was published in the open-access journal Biogeosciences. Marijke used the Transatlantic sediment traps to validate her diol-proxy for SSTs (PDF)
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23 April 2019: Saharan dust reached northern Europe and I wrote a little blog about it on the NIOZ dust website.
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January 2019: The long-lasting and very fruitful collaboration with Patrick De Deckker (ANU) has resulted in yet another paper: “Land-sea correlations in the Australian region” (PDF), which is part two in a series of two papers.
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December 2018: Our paper on “giant” dust particles made it into the open-access version of the journal Science! (PDF)
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September 2018: Michèlle publishes her 2nd dusty paper in the journal Aeolian Research. (PDF of paper)
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August 2018: RV Pelagia in the harbour of Catania, Sicily, Italy, ready to sail for expedition 64PE443 (blog)
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July 2018: the poster of my talk at the University of Toulouse where I visited François de Vleeschouwer.
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On the top of Dune de Pilat: the present ICAR president Frank Eckhardt (left) and the past president Adrian Chapell together with the president-elect (that’s me).
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June 2018: the tenth International Conference on Aeolian Research (ICAR X) where Martina Klose and will convened the session: “Dust dynamics and processes: emission, dispersal, and deposition”.
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June 2018: A piece in the Texelse Courant on the kick-off of project S.E.A: Science encounters Art, in which Jan van den Berg and me are developing a project for the art month “Lange juni 2019”.
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May 2018: The “Groene Amsterdammer” wrote a piece on geo-engineering for which they asked my input (in Dutch)
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May 2018: Helga’s first dusty paper is out! We present new data on the ballasting potential of Saharan dust.
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January 2018: Catarina, Laura, and me (R2L) at the biological station of the University of Chile in Las Cruces where the PAGES-DICE workshop on dust was organised. (#lovemyjob)
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January 2018: during the NICO expedition, leg 2 (Gran Canaria - Curaçao) on board RV Pelagia, dust was sampled, and plenty of it! In this animated gif you can see several outbreaks of Saharan dust.
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Laura Schreuder published her first study on the biomarkers in Saharan dust in “Organic Geochemistry” . Well done Laura, here’s to many more dusty papers!
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Ute Merkel and me organised the 4th German “dust day”(Staubtag) at the MARUM in Bremen on 22 November 2017
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August 2017: cruise M140 on board FS Meteor took us from Cape Verde to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and gave us the opportunity to visit and service the sampling of Saharan dust with both marine sediment traps and dust-collecting buoys. See the NIOZ website for a blog
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A first for Catarina: her first dusty manuscript was accepted as a discussion-paper in the EGU open-access journal Biogeochemistry
Cheers Catarina, here’s to many more!!
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October 2017: Catarinas first dusty paper is out: accepted as “full” paper in Biogeochemistry
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The end-member approach proved its value once more; with it we managed to tease apart not only aeolian dust from fluvial mud but also turbidites that have their own grain-size signature!
You can read all about it in the paper that came out this week in EPSL.
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A first for Laura: her first paper came out in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics! Cheers Laura, here’s to many more!!
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May 2017: Carmen successfully defended her PhD thesis at the MARUM, Bremen, Germany, on 2 May. Congratulations DOCTOR Friese!! Here she is proudly wearing her personalized cape and Dr’s Hat.
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April 2017: During this year’s EGU meeting Peter Knippertz, Jo Nield, Tobias Lauer, and me organised a PICO session on dust, which was a great success!! Here you see colleagues lining up for their 2 minutes of fame in the 2-minute madness in which they pitched their presentation. Next year we’ll organise the session again and then celebrate it’s 15th anniversary during EGU2018.
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March 2017: Jiawang Lu’s paper was published in Quaternary Science Reviews.
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During cruise JC134 we had another journalist with us: Gemma Venhuizen. She made a few nice radio items, which you find here.
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November 2015: The ITS Academy wanted to learn about the state-of-the-art of marine research and organised an afternoon of talks and practical lab work at the VU Amsterdam. My intention was to get to know potential teachers that would join our next cruise: JC134
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August 2015: It was decided to present all this dusty knowledge in a series of online lectures, which you can attend here.
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In preparation for our 2015 DUSTTRAFFIC cruise onboard RV Pelagia, some pupils of the Texel high school learned all about the environmental impacts of dust deposition while decorating foam cups that we were going to lower to 5000m. They had to guess what would happen to the cups....
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The Dutch national newspaper De Volkskrant selected 12 lines of scientific research they were going to report on for an extended period: here is one of their nice pieces on our dusty research.
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Also the invitation to come and talk for a KIJK-Live event, in the Beurs van Berlage, I could not resist.....
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The fellows of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences would like to hear about my ERC plans.
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9 January 2013; the “Nature lovers IVN Texel” have invited me to come talk about dust; an invitation I don’t usually turn down!
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