About half the Physical Geography department of Utrecht University joined the department day to the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). During this day we had the opportunity to get a tour through the lab facilities of NIOZ zeeland and we went on a tour visiting salt marshes around the Eastern and Western Scheldt. This department day was surprisingly close related to my own research and therefor extra interesting. It was good to see another place in the Netherlands that does similar research as us outside the university. We collaborate often with NIOZ and meet them at conferences, but strangely enough I had never been there. Besides that it was a good learning experience, it was of course also a great fun and a good bonding experiences between colleagues I normally do not directly work with.
