WSO and Wageningen University challenge you. Come and visit the lunch lectures in the weeks before eDay.
Four excellent lecturers will show how to challenge students by being teasing teachers. Students from WSO, SC and OWI Board will give direct feedback on the lectures.
Introduction today:
One square meter of soil surface houses some ten thousand species of soil organisms. However, we know little of what all these organisms really do. I will present the most recent research insights and show how our visible upper world is controlled by the invisible underworld. Many of the changes that we can observe in natural ecosystems are more or less directly influenced by processes in which soil organisms play a profound role. I will first outline these natural and human-influenced changes and then introduce you into the mysterical world underneath our feet. Then, the basic concepts will be outlined using examples from the real nature and I will end with some predictions of possible changes in our environment when the current global warming proceeds
Free coffee/tea
This programme is still under construction. For more details see: www.eday.wur.nl.
The lunch lectures will be followed by the traditional WSO / OWI eDay on 14th of April 2008. Register at WSO@wur.nl.
The WSO / OWI Education Day Committee
Pim Brascamp, Petra Naber, Jan Willem Hofstee, Chick Tassi Yunga, Raymond Bolding, Maartje Luteijn, Annemarie van Groenestijn, Masha Rasenberg, Dane Bicanic, Jan den Ouden.