Master study day
Submitted at 29-08-2010
Informal Meeting with drinks
Monday the 30th of August
15.15h Atlas Building
Coming Monday the master study day will take place, and like the tradition tells us this cosy day will end in an informal meeting with drinks and bites. Join the meeting to meet our new masterstudents and drink a free drink from around 15.15h in the Atlas building!
Lunch lecture Iceland
Submitted at 24-05-2010
Roel Dijksma & Piet Verdonschot
Location: Lumen 1 & 2 Date: 31 may 2010 Time: 12.00 – 13.00h
Recently Iceland was a hot news item because of it’s volcanic (and financial) activity. Over the last years Wageningen UR did research on water flow through basalt formations and on the ecology of Iceland. Every year there are field trips to Iceland, one as an award for best Earth science assignments of secondary school students, another as an excursion within the MSc course ‘Hydrological Processes in Catchments”. During this lecture the general geological setting of Iceland will be explained, with special attention to the Eyjafjalla eruption. The hydrological processes in the catchments of two large rivers, the Jökullsa á Fjöllum and the Þjórsá, will be explained. The rivers and brooks are fed by water that is flowing over impermeable surface, by groundwater from porous rocks and as melting water from snow and glaciers. The catchments of Icelandic rivers are mostly barren or with little vegetation cover in the highlands and with heathland and mire vegetation in the lowlands. The aquatic ecology reflects the productivity of the catchment vegetation and the type of the catchment basin. Most interesting though is the geothermal influence that does river temperatures range between 6 and 23oC in summer and strongly affects the stream fauna.
YEARLY INTEGRATCIE EXCURSION TO THE OPEN AIR MUSEUM
Submitted at 11-05-2010
Do you want to know more about the Dutch culture and history? The IntegratCie excursion to the Open Air Museum in Arnhem is your chance! Step into more than 80 historic houses, farmhouses and mills, and spend a day discovering how ordinary Dutch people have lived over the last few hundred years. If you want to join: register quick!
Date: Saturday 29 may 2010
Time: 11:00 - 18:00 o'clock,11:00 a.m. at Busstation Wageningen, in front of the snack corner
Entrance costs: between €10,- and €14,20 p.p. (depending on the number of participants)
Registration: send an email to susan.vandersalm@wur.nl
See also: http://www.openluchtmuseum.nl/en/
Veluweloop
Submitted at 09-05-2010
This year Pyrus will participitate in the Veluweloop. This is a relay race and goes from Wageningen to the Posbank (Arnhem) and back. The race will be run on September 11. We are looking for runners who want to run a stage, ranging van 4.4 to 11.3 kilometres. Would you like to participate? Sign up now on the website of Pyrus or subscribe by sending an e-mail to transpyratcie@gmail.com. More information can be found at http://www.veluweloop.nl (also in English).
Softball tournament
Submitted at 09-05-2010
The TransPyratCie organizes a softball tournament on Wednesday, May 26. You are welcome from 5:30 hr on the soccer field of the Bongerd. Participation is free and the committee will provide the necessary equipment. See you there!
