The first day of the
field course was an excursion to see the geology of the Dinkel River
valley in Twente, This landscape was shaped by the ice cover that
existed during the last ice ages. We started the rotation of groups
yesterday. Koos teaches river discharge measurement techniques,
Michel does the geophysics, John makes a bicycle tour to study
variation of hydrochemistry along the
Dinkel River and its tributaries and I am doing soil physics and
micrometeorology. The four groups of students follow all these day
programmes by a rotation system.
We are studying,
while a lot of Dutch celebrate a short holiday or are getting their
wedding pictures taken. You can see the activity in the picture
below, where we do TDR soil moisture measurements on a popular beach
along the Dinkel River.
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| Soil moisture measurements on the Dinkel beach |
At the same spot, Bart,
Jelmer, Jet and Vince were having a tensiometer party today and when
we went to the meteorology tower afterward, we saw another group of students
doing geophysics in a meadow of a very friendly dairy farmer.
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| Bart, Jelmer, Jet and Vince with tensiometers |
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| EM-34 geophysics in grass |
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