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Former PD Debanjan Chandra is visiting from Norway to run experiments with an #EPOS-NL grant and he is explaining his new experiments whilst monitoring his stuff. Multi-tasking at its finest!

A first attempt at cold pressing our own salt samples, which will be baked afterwards for Jops PhD project. If anyone has any tips, we gladly take them!

Want to come break rocks with us? Or scan some of your pretty samples? Apply for #EPOS funding! epos-nl.nl/facilities/

*he=Milad Naderloo, in case the algorithm only showed the second post 😅

Even more proud as a supervisor: he won the best presentation prize ❤️🤓💪💪💪

Proud of our postdoc Milad Naderloo, presenting his work on sandstone-H2 interaction at the #hydrogenstorage summer school!

@entelakane.bsky.social branching out from geothermal energy to H2 storage ❤️🤓

The last batch of experiments for @entelakane.bsky.social will take place in Utrecht at TNO, thanks to #EPOSNL funding 🤓

At least microstructures are small... All these 30 mm rock cores are adding up 🤭

Question to those rock crushing people out there: how long do you keep your post-experimental samples after a project finished? Here we are contemplating 2-5 years post-publication.... Though the thought of tossing those beauties away pains us :( we are seriously struggling for space!

Almost back home after looking at broken rocks with our 2nd year BSc students in France. Also for lab rats it's energizing to see faults in their natural habitat!

At this year's #EAGEAnnual2025 my colleague Anne gave a truly passionate and compassionate pitch why #geoscience #education needs to become more inclusive and diverse if we are serious about inspiring new talents to enter this field and work on the #energytransition @rockdeftud.bsky.social ⚒️💡🔋

It's a bit quiet on here, since Anne is in the field with our 2nd year students :) now in the train to EAGE for a panel discussion about education in geosciences in these times of energy transition...

More BSc thesis time! Jesse worked today with BSc Iris to scan the heterogeneous Rotliegend cores .. always good to scan before breaking! #breakingrocks #rocks

We made use of the spring weather to do a lab&friends BBQ at Anne's place, including our wonderful BSc and MSc students... Always good to have good food and good company!

Not a basket full of cookies but a small box of different types of saw cut Dinantian samples. If I were a grandmother, it'd be totally my kind of gift!

PhD Jesse came by in the afternoon and made my day with these freshly cored heterogeneous #Rotliegend #sandstone samples for #CrossScale w/ @geoenergyprof.bsky.social Aren't they pretty? Next: cutting them (and deciding where...), CT scan, porosimetry and then... Break them! 😎😎 #breakingrocks #rocks

Summer School

Interested in #CCS? Our colleagues Denis Voskov and Rouhi Farajzadeh are organising the 11th edition of the CCUS summer school 30 June to 4 July. Subscriptions until 15 May www.tudelft.nl/citg/over-fa...

Meanwhile in Delft the thesis season is in full swing... Sybrand is now nicely into obtaining his Brazilian disc dataset on salt samples for his BSc thesis with Jop and Shihao

Today it was former PD Debanjan Chandra who took the stage, to talk about using sonic velocities to monitor CO2 plume migration #CCS #breakingrocks #rocks

Proud of the current and former team 🤓🤘💪

If you are at #EGU25 and into structural geology, fieldwork, faults, tectonics and thinking about the future of Structural Geology and Tectonics @egu.eu @ts.egu.eu @structuralgeology.bsky.social @joaocduarte.bsky.social , please come to the overarching session discussing the field, at 16h in 0.51!

Today is day 1 for our team! #EGU25 @egu-ere.bsky.social Former PD Evgeniia Martuganova kicks off with poster X4.61 on the North Sea seismic network, vital for #CCS, 1045-1230. At 1525 PD Milad Naderloo talks about the effects of long-term #H2 exposure (6 months) on sst mechanics in -2.31 (purple)

Milad and former postdoc Zhenja are already on their way to #EGU25, Anne will travel tomorrow. Former postdoc Debanjan is on its way from Norway. What are your must-sees this week? @egu.eu

Demonstrations against budget cuts at #TUDelft in the relay-demonstrations. Happy to see pretty much all staff members from our department who are not on holidays

Exposure of five cementitious sealant materials to wet supercritical CO2 and CO2-saturated water under simulated downhole conditions Maintaining well integrity is a key challenge to the secure geological storage of CO2. Here, sealants based on Portland Cement form a key component, p…

Former postdoc Kai Li and Anne were co-authors to this paper, where we aided by CT scans and interpretation of five different wellbore cements exposed to CO2. Curious which cement is most resistant? Check it out here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This week BSc student Sybrand is helping new PhD Jop to kick off his salt project. First hurdle: sample fabrication... 😅🤓

I just sent a humble apology to Milad 😅😅😅🙈

*Milad - autocorrect apologies... 😅🙈😆