Evidence Piece Underwear: Healthy Soils and Their Importance for Humans and the Environment

Name: Evidence Piece Underwear: Healthy Soils and Their Importance for Humans and the Environment
Start: 2026-11-17T13:15:00.000Z
End: 2026-11-17T14:45:00.000Z
Location: Universität Zürich Irchel

A talk about a citizen science project on soil health that won an Ig Nobel Prize, exploring why healthy soils matter.

Date

Tuesday 17 November

14:15 – 15:45

Venue

Universität Zürich Irchel

Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zürich

Price

Price on organiser’s site

Language

German

About

Automatically translated from German

Marcel van der Heijden from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Sciences presents the Evidence Piece Underwear project, in which 1000 Swiss citizens buried 2000 pairs of underwear and 12000 tea bags to make soil processes visible and understandable. The project recently won an Ig Nobel Prize in soil science. The lecture covers soil biodiversity, pesticides in soil, sustainable farming methods and the use of soil fungi to improve soil health and agricultural yields.

Organiser · Senior:innen-Universität Zürich UZH3

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