Friday Earth Sciences Talks (FEST)
The Earth Sciences study countless aspects of ‘System Earth’ and, as such, form a multidisciplinary field of their own. Earth scientists often have specialist backgrounds, e.g., in biology, chemistry, hydrology, physics, material sciences, or computational sciences. There are many occasions where these specialists meet each other, varying from international conferences to local (group) seminars. But while the Earth connects everybody, people from different disciplinary backgrounds may sometimes get lost in the specialistic details of other disciplines. To tackle this 'communication problem', we introduced the Friday Earth Sciences Talks, or FEST.
With the FEST, we intend to bring the departments of Earth Sciences and Physical Geography together. The aim is to present (mostly) Utrecht-based Earth Sciences in an accessible way, primarily in order to stay familiar with each other’s work across disciplines. Simultaneously, this provides an excellent platform to help (in particular MSc.) students in their orientation on possible graduation specialisations and future careers. In general, the FEST is bi-weekly and takes place in the Koningsberger building. The after-social is usually in, or in front of, the Vening Meinesz A building and supported by our student society U.A.V.
The preliminary schedule is as follows, but may be subject to change.
March 1 | Dr Lennart de Nooijer (Royal NIOZ) |
March 15 | Dr Elmer Ruigrok |
April 12 | Prof. Maarten Kleinhans |
April 26 | Dr Xianyi Liu |
May 24 | Dr Stefan Jansen (Deltares) |
June 7 | Dr Michelle van Vliet |
June 21 | |
July 5 | Dr Mark Dekkers (special edition) |
Titles and abstracts are published one to two weeks in advance on the Events calendars of both departments: Earth Sciences and Physical Geography, as well as on Facebook. The organising FEST-committee can be contacted via fest.aw@uu.nl
FEST-committee
Rosa de Boer MSc
PhD CandidateBarbara Goudsmit-Harzevoort
PhD Candidatedr. Johanna Heeb
ResearcherNiklas Hohmann
PhD CandidateSaffaa Naffaa MSc
PhD CandidateFrenk Out MSc
PhD CandidateAddison Rice MSc
PhD Candidate