Symposium

Ecosystem restoration: impacts on weather and beyond

Mini symposium on the occasion of the PhD defense of Jessica Ruijsch.

Organised by	Earth Systems and Global Change
Date	Thu 25 September 2025 10:00 to 12:00
Venue	Gaia, building number 101 Droevendaalsesteeg 3 101 6708 PB Wageningen +31 (0) 317 - 48 17 00
Room	1

Invited talks

10:00 Prof Dr Diego Miralles, Ghent University
Biophysical feedbacks during droughts and heatwaves

10:30 Prof Dr Kirsten de Beurs, Wageningen University
The impact of land cover change on local weather - two case studies using remotely sensed data

11:00 Dr Geert Lenderink, Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut
Past, present and future high impact rainfall events in a pseudo-global warming system

11:30 Prof Dr Edouard Davin, Wyss Academy for Nature, Bern University
The role of ecosystem restoration in sustainable pathways for climate and biodiversity

At 15:30 the PhD defense of Jessica Ruijsch will start in the Omnia building (also on Wageningen Campus) entitled 'The latent potential of restoration: biophysical climate effects of land restoration in Africa'.