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I
am a soil scientist. My undergraduates was in soil survey and tropical
agriculture and I hold a MSc in soil science and plant nutrition from Wageningen University and a PhD from
Reading University. I work at
ISRIC – World Soil Information in
Wageningen, The Netherlands, where
I am Head of the
World Soil
Museum, and my
responsibilities
include the
soil science education and extension
programme. I
supervise MSc and PhD students of Wageningen University and am
a
registered researcher at the Research School C.T. de
Wit for Production Ecology and Resource Conservation
(PE&RC).
I am team leader of the soils theme of the
International Year of Planet Earth and editor-in-Chief of
Geoderma.
In 2002, I took over the
IUSS Deputy Secretary General position from my
colleague Drs Hans van Baren.
In that position, I am amongst others responsible for the IUSS website, IUSS Alerts and Bulletin.
The website has over 140,000 visits per year. From 2001
to early 2005, I was the
secretary-treasurer and webmaster of the Dutch Society of Soil Science (NBV)
and developed the NBV website.
Prior to
my current position, I was
lecturer in soil science at the University of
Technology in Papua New Guinea and worked as soil surveyor and soil
fertility specialist in
Tanzania,
Congo (Zaire),
Indonesia,
Australia
and for the
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in
Kenya. Some of my
main activities are
described here:
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