On Friday 16 March 2012, the KNGMG, celebrated its 100th anniversary with a one-day symposium on "Earth Resources, the Next 100 Years”. Keynote speakers from various disciplines in earth sciences and resource industries shared their views on the challenges of supply and demand of earth resources over the next 100 years. Given the global economic changes and environmental issues, it was a very timely theme in which earth sciences play a major role.

The final programme looked as follows:

08:30    Registration

Session 1

Convenor: Prof. Dr. Henk Brinkhuis (NIOZ)

09:45    Welcome    Menno de Ruig (Chairman KNGMG)

09:55    Phosphorus Surpluses and Scarcities at different Spatio-temporal Scales

Topic:    Phosphates

Prof. Dr. Ir. Eric Smaling (KIT Amsterdam)

10:30    Deep Sea Mining, a Challenging New Opportunity

Topic:    Deep Sea Mining

Ir. Henk van Muijen (MTI Holland)

11:05    Break

11:30    Global Water as a Scarce Resource

Topic:    Water

Prof. Dr. Ir. Marc Bierkens (University of Utrecht)

12:05    Exploitation of the Dutch Subsurface - Where are the Limits?

Topic:    Subsurface Use

Prof. Drs. Rien Herber (University of Groningen)

12:40    Lunch

Session 2

Convenor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Luthi (TUD)

14:00    Myths and Reality in Oil and Gas

Topic:    Fossil Fuels

Dr. Matthias Bichsel (Shell)

14:35    A Century of Gas

Topic:    Gas

Ir. Hans van Luijk (Gasunie)

15:10    Break

15:30    Resource Efficiency and Scarcity

Topic:    Resource Economics

Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Cramer (University of Utrecht)

16:10    Book presentation and closing remarks

16:40    Drinks, reception

The KNGMG centennial was sponsored by:

Het onderstaande artikel is gepubliceerd mede naar aanleiding van het  KNGMG-jubileumsymposium. 'Fosfaatmijnen raken leeg, tijd voor hergebruik' op www.kennislink.nl. Zie:

http://www.kennislink.nl/publicaties/fosfaatmijnen-raken-leeg