Photo competition
At NAC there will be a photo competition. Every participant in NAC 2023 can submit one photo on any theme related to the broad field of earth sciences. To submit a photo for the competition, one must be registered for NAC 2023 (see terms and conditions). Submitted photos will be exhibited at the conference and are shown below (click on a photo to see more information).
Tiny field work
The photo was taken during Utrecht University's 2nd years BSc field work in the low lands of NE Italy. Students work between the fields. Seeing a field site from above with carbonate-dominated white earth, planted with rows of soy plants the scale of things is striking.
Credit: Geert-Jan Vis | When: 15 June 2022 | Where: NE Italy
Debris-flow fan surface at the foot of Straight Canyon
This picture shows a textbook example of a debris-flow fan surface at the foot of Straight Canyon draining from the White Mountains (CA, USA). The surface is a mix of distinct depositional lobes, marked lateral levees, abandoned channels, and large boulders.
Credit: Tjalling de Haas | When: 17 November 2022 | Where: Owens Valley (CA, USA)
Old Man of Storr
The Old Man of Storr is a geological feature on the Isle of Skye. The 55m high pinnacle comprises the remains of an ancient volcanic plug.
Credit: Luc Lourens | When: 04-08-2014 | Where: Isle of Skye
Silence of the DUDE
Deposition, Uplift, Downcutting, and Erosion. A story that began almost two billion years ago.
Credit: Szabina Karancz | When: November 2022 | Where: Grand Canyon National Park (AZ, USA)
Drilling the Delta
Paleomagnetic sampling of the 1953 basaltic lava delta of the Bárcena volcano, San Benedicto Island, Revillagigedo Archipelago, eastern Pacific.
Credit: Douwe van Hinsbergen | When: March 2022 | Where: San Benedicto Island, Revillagigedo Archipelago, eastern Pacific
Leaving paradise
Revillagigedo expedition crew of UU and VU on their way to the ship after sampling the Bárcena volcano, San Benedicto Island, eastern Pacific. In the background the basalt lava from the 1953 flank eruption.
Credit: Douwe van Hinsbergen | When: March 2022 | Where: Revillagigedo Archipelago, eastern Pacific
Collaboration
Different disciplines come together during fieldwork.
Credit: Juliette Faucher | When: 18-11-2022 | Where: Vargeão Dome, Brazil
River pillars
The river Jökulsá á Fjöllum flows from the Vatnajökull glacier to the Greenland sea through a canyon in northeastern Iceland. These specific rock formations are found in the Vesturdalur valley within this canyon.
Credit: Bram Ebben | When: July 2018 | Where: Iceland, Jökulsá á Fjöllum river
≈ 66 milion years
Ammonite fossils, trapped in time for about 66 million years.
The marine molluscs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period. That is around the same time as dinosaurs.
Credit: Swagatam Chakraborty | When: August 2017 | Where: Digne-les-Bains, France
The sea takes a step back and lets us explore amidst the setting sun
Sunset reflection captured during low tide at Texel.
Credit: Logambal Madhuanand | When: August 2022 | Where: Texel
Chihuahua geode, Mexico: what happened when and why is it upside down?
Solid spheres and layers, partly concentric, partly deformed, also horizontal depositions and undifferentiated material; in fact many question marks!
Credit: Jos van Oijen / Hiske Altena | When: 2023 February 23 | Where: at home
Orange Twilight
In the evening, just before the arrival of cold air, a stunning orange sunset emerged in the western sky. The warm and vibrant hue, coupled with occasional bursts of chill, signified the end of autumn.
Credit: Jiangtao CAI | When: 17:05, Nov. 11, 2022 | Where: Enschede center station, the Netherlands
Sula complex at Bakaaboto in the Suriname River, Sipaliwini-Suriname
Sula's are also know as rapids. These occur in the Surinamese Rivers and are the result of the river incising in the underlain weathered basement.
Credit: Kathleen Gersie | When: March 27th 2021 | Where: Sipaliwini-Suriname
Exploring rough glacier terrain
Tourists exploring the Sólheimajökull Glacier in Iceland.
Credit: Paolo Tasseron | When: April 2022 | Where: Skógar, Sólheimajökull, Iceland
The student perspective
No greater joy than sharing our enthusiasm with students on their way to becoming an Earth Sciences professional .
Credit: Hans de Bresser | When: June 6th 2022 | Where: Huercal Overe basin, SE Spain
Iguana tail for scale
Boundary between Eocene Point Blanche Formation and underlying younger intrusive igneous rock (Sint Maarten).
Credit: Kees Nooren | When: May 2022 | Where: Sint Maarten
A Rock with a Heart
Jurassic carbonates exposed in the Paradise Valley in the Western High Atlas of Morocco.
Art by K-NAR ?
Credit: Rémi Charton (iPhone 13) | When: 22-10-2022 | Where: Paradise Valley (Morocco)
Upside down?
In this cave you frequently feel you are looking at a painting or that you are standing on your head. This picture tries to capture that feeling.
Credit: Marc Hijma | When: 6-1-2023 | Where: Les Grottes de Remouchamps
Best wel Zen ja, op Senja
Okshornan (Bull's or Devil's Teeth) consisting of palaeoproterozoic gneisses, fabulously mirrored in a marine isolation basin formed by recent glacio-isostatic uplift.
Credit: Wim Hoek | When: July 25, 2022 | Where: Tungeneset, Senja, Norway
Bouquet of flowers
This valley is one big flower structure, due to strike-slip movement between the Jurassic limestones on the left side and Cretaceous marly limestones on the right side of the picture. The light grey blocks inside the valley are small popped up flowers, together filling the flower bouquet that forms the valley.
Credit: Annelotte Weert | When: 30 augustus 2022 | Where: Punta Marguareis, Italy
Lake Turkana dusks, unchanged since the dawn of humankind
Sunset from the Koobi Fora Base Camp on the Eastern shore of Lake Turkana. Today we look at the enduring beauty of a landscape, probably contemplated by our hominin ancestors as well.
Credit: D.V. Palcu | When: 2022 | Where: East Turkana, Kenya
Early summer snow melt
Early summer snow melt in a high alpine terrain. Heavy snowfall of the ‘Columbia Wet Belt’ during winter time continues to support large remnants of the vast alpine glaciers that shaped the rugged Purcell Mountains. As summer proceeds, glacier-sculpted granite spires become more and more exposed, and the terrain more challenging to navigate.
Credit: Sjoukje de Lange | When: July 2023 | Where: Pigeon Spire, Bugaboos provincial park, Purcell Mountains, Britisch Colombia, Canada
Some perspective
View of the Milky Way from the mountains of Corsica. Sometimes, looking at the stars gives a sense of perspective about life on Earth.
Credit: Kaj-Ivar van der Wijst | When: 10 October 2021 | Where: Corsica
NAC 2023 welcomes you back on Thursday 23 and Friday 24 March 2023. Reconnect face to face with colleagues in Van der Valk Hotel, Utrecht.
The 19th edition of NAC (Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres) brings together the research fields within the Earth and Environmental Sciences from the remit of the NWO Science Domain. The event aims to continue to provide a true interdisciplinary forum for discussion and for young scientists to present their research results to a broad audience. NAC is a great opportunity to present your science and get some really crucial feedback, to meet and mix with eminent people within the field and to really take the opportunity to speak to as many people as you can. Online registration for this leading meeting is closed.