Netherlands: Wageningen University Soil Labs.

I EUROSOLAN meeting | Eurasian Soil Laboratory Network | 2 - 5 October 2019 | Chişinău, Moldova. Winnie Van Vark

Education

First Meeting of the Regional Soil
Laboratory Network for Eurasia and
Europe
National Reference
Laboratories

Laboratory name:
Wageningen University Soil Laboratories
Country: The Netherlands
Name of the presenter:
Winnie van Vark

Wageningen University Soil Cluster
• Mission to advance the understanding of the:
Dynamic interactions between physical, biological and
chemical soil properties and processes from the soil to
the landscape scale, and
• Impact of land use and management on soil
quality and ecosystem functioning
• Specific for laboratory:
Improvement of quality and performance of
laboratories world-wide

Supporting laboratories:
Soil Chemistry and Chemical Soil Quality group:
• Chemical Soil and Plant Laboratory
• Soil Biology and biological Soil Quality group:
• Biological Soil Laboratory
• Soil Physics and Land Management
• Soil Hydro-Physics Laboratory
• Soil Geography and Landscape Group
• NCL Netherlands Centre for Luminescence dating

Photo’s Soil Biology
Photo’s by T. Salanki

Netherlands Centre for Luminescence
dating
Photo’s by Guy Ackermans

Soil analysis in the Netherlands
Routine (Soil) laboratories in the Netherlands: 9
‘mobile’ laboratories: no
Soil test kits are not commonly used

Proficiency testing (PT)
Chemical Soil Laboratory:
- Recently: GLOSOLAN world wide PT test
- WEPAL participant for soil since 1988
- RIZA and KWR (water)
Soil (Hydro) Physical Laboratory
- Initiator SoPhie
- Harmonisation, innovation, standardization
hydro physical parameters

Accreditation/certification
Chemical Soil laboratory:
accredited acc. ISO 17025 from 2000 until 2018.
provided by the Dutch board of accreditation
From 2018 onwards, procedures according the ISO
standard .

Strength/weakness (1)
Strength of the WU- soil labs
strongly embedded in research and
education
world wide reputation attracting
collaboration, visiting scientists,
students extensive networks
large client base (WU and external)
high quality
-

Weakness
• High infrastructural costs
• Insufficient coverage of lab services by
national projects
• Limited investments in new equipment
Strength/weakness (2)
Improvements
Awareness about the costs by the board
of the university

What are your expectations out of this meeting and
GLOSOLAN?
Implementation of knowledge and experience of all
participants to EUROSOLAN and GLOSOLAN

First meeting of the Global Soil Laboratory Network (GLOSOLAN), 1 - 2 Nov 2017 at FAO HQ in Rome. This network will be composed of national soil reference laboratories as a means to exchange resources, knowledge and experience. The goal of GLOSOLAN is to strengthen the performance of laboratories in support of the harmonization of soil data sets and information towards the development of standards. Indeed, the harmonization of soil analysis is a critical component of making soil information comparable and interpretable across laboratories, countries and regions. Presentations by Winnie van Vark, Wageningen University.

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This presentation summarizes the findings of an air emissions and odour sampling program conducted on the Baytex Reno Field. The data was collected in response to local resident complaints of odours in the area. The study collected samples using industry standard procedures and analyzed by state of the art analytical equipment. The results showed that no human health effects were exceeded and that no odour thresholds were exceeded. This study exemplifies how odours may be detected even though the standard analytical practices are not able to measure the odiferous compounds. PAHs were measured in the study and show a petrogenic ligher signature present the ambient air in the region as well as diesel markers from the trucking activity. This summary report was presented on January 22, 2014 to the Peace River AER Public Proceeding (1769924).

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