Niels Batjes
@niels-batjes.bsky.social
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Soil scientist. #Soilscience, #Climatechange, #SoilCarbon, #Sustainability, #FAIRdata. Enjoys nature walks, gardening, and reading. Opinion's are my own. 🧪 🌍 🗺️ 🏞️ ⛰️🟫 🌾🌿 Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JUB5mcoAAAAJ&hl=en
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"A growing number of studies have found that the most widely used carbon offset programs continue to greatly overestimate their probable climate impact", see article in the Guardian.
#carbon #offsets 🧪🌍

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Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions
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#soilscience #FAIRdata #soilhealth
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Whether you're a scientist, student, policymaker, or simply curious about the ground beneath your feet, the ISRIC Annual Report 2024 offers an inspiring snapshot of how data, collaboration, and innovation are shaping a me resilient planet.
Read 👇
www.isric.org/sites/defaul...

🧪🌍 #Soilscience
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Enjoying nice summer walks around Wageningen 😀
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Read the latest ISRIC newsletter with a.o. updates about the #EU-FUNDED #Soils4Africa 🌍 and #Holisoils 🌲projects
#soilscience #Fairdata
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🌐 ISRIC's latest: Africa SIS, high-resolution soil property maps for Europe, and more!
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Have a look at these very nice videos on peat soils
#soilscience #peatsoils
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🆕 10 practical video guides on classifying peat-based soil profiles developed in GER!

Perfect for fieldwork & students.
🎥 In English, easy to follow.
Shared by Gero Jahns (SSSI & LBEG Hannover)

Watch: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

More info: mooris-niedersachsen.de
#SoilScience #PeatSoils #SSSI
WIKIMooS Peatland Videos - YouTube
Projekt WIKIMooS WIKIMooS – Wissens- & KartierungsIndikatorenset MoorSubstrate: https://www.agrar.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/departments/dntw/bodenkstandortl/f...
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Great opportunity! 🌏🧪🌍
ISRIC WDC-Soils is looking for a Senior Soil Scientist who will actively contribute to the further development of ISRIC’s flagship soil information product ‘WoSIS’ and its links with ‘SoilGrids’.
For details see👇 🌏🧪🌍
www.isric.org/vacancy-seni...
#soilscience
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Soil property maps for Europe at 100 m resolution released by ISRIC - World Soil Information in the framework of the EU HoliSoils project to inform forest management and policies.
holisoils.eu/soil-propert...
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#soilscience #soilhealth #soilmapping #forestsoil
Soil property maps for Europe at 100 m resolution will inform forest management and policies - HoliSoils
Forest soils provide important ecosystem services, such as biodiversity support, nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration, water regulation and erosion control.
holisoils.eu
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Have a look to this fresh #HoliSoils' policy brief published by the project coordinator @luke.fi!

Learn more about how we can address critical #ForestSoil challenges in Europe through enhanced #ForestManagement and monitoring 🔎🌱🌲
➡️ jukuri.luke.fi/handle/10024...
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Are you interested in stimulating soil literacy in education by leveraging augmented and mixed reality (AR-MR) technologies for data exploration in a mobile app? Then consider joining this hackathon organised by #ISRIC / #CURIOSOIL ⬇️
#soilscience #education #hackathon 🌍
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Hackathon: Exploring augmented reality in a mobile application for soil education
The hackathon "Digging deep: Innovating soil education through augmented and mixed reality (AR-MR) in a mobile app" invites educators, soil specialists, developers, designers, and technologists to rev...
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ISRIC WDC-Soils becomes a DataONE member repository.
#DataONE is a community driven programme providing access to data across multiple member repositories, supporting enhanced search and discovery of Earth and environmental data.

#soilscience #FAIRdata
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ISRIC joins DataOne repository network.
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#HoliSoils offers many tools to enhance the knowledge on #forest soils & many more are under development!
Find some already online👇
Others will come soon so watch this space 👀

Data 📈Models 📑Maps 🗺️

holisoils.eu/maps/ holisoils.eu/models/ holisoils.eu/data/
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ISRIC - World Soil Information has recently launched an online open-access resource library with educational and technical soil information resources and tools for global users. 🧪🌍👇
Please explore at: resources.isric.org
#soilscience #openaccess #soilinformation
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"A landscape-scale view of soil organic matter dynamics" by Doetterl et al. (2025) outlines how understanding soil formation processes and complexity at the landscape scale can inform predictions of SOM cycling and SOC sequestration
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www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#soilscience #soilmapping
A landscape-scale view of soil organic matter dynamics - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Soil carbon cycling is closely linked with landscape complexities in soil properties, climate and land use. This Perspective outlines how soil formation theory could provide insight on landscape-scale...
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“A European soil organic carbon monitoring system leveraging Sentinel 2 imagery and the LUCAS soil database” was recently published in Geoderma. It is the direct scientific outcome of the European Space Agency - ESA-funded WorldSoils project. Learn more ⬇️
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#soilscience
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New study shows plastic pollution worsens the impacts of all planetary boundaries
#pollution #environment #climatechange #soilscience
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