My research focuses on solving geological problems with biological information and proxies. My background is in terrestrial palynology, I use pollen and spore data to reconstruct past vegetation and as input for paleoclimatological estimates. I search for integration of techniques and concepts across different fields of application, in paleoclimate research, environmental ‘fingerprinting’, and geological model building.
NEWS:
Luister naar de nieuwe serie podcasts '' van NPO 1 Vroege vogels. In afl 2 neem ik je mee naar de moerasbossen uit het Plioceen.
uncovered in botanical garden Jochumshof, Steyl (Limburg), read about it in an article in Trouw (dutch, abonnement).
on pollen, hay fever and climate (in dutch)
New publication in PNAS shows the history of forest diversity for the past 1.36 million years.
and article about our Lake Ohrid Work (NRC-Handelsblad)
Press release on our work on the Lake Ohrid, published in Nature
; a Dutch time series on climate change with our contribution on the realtion betyween climate and pollen allergy
See our on the Ecuador fieldwork
on pollen and climate (dutch)
Field sites in Florida