My research covers:
* Generic palaeogeographical mapping using GIS and databases
* Subsurface geological architecture of modern deltas: river and coast
* The Netherlands in the Holocene and the Anthropocene
* Quaternary Geology of the North Sea Basin
* Lowland Geomorphology: from landform creation forward to deposit preservation.
* Fluvial sedimentology: from architecture back to depositional process.
* Sediment budgets at basin scale, sequentially with time steps of 500 to 500,000 yr.
* Rare river flood frequency-magnitude palaeohydrology.
Topics:
* Global Quaternary Chronostratigraphy (Pleistocene, Holocene, Anthropocene)
* North Sea Basin subsidence, neotectonics and sea level rise
* Southern North Sea onshore-and-offshore palaeolandscapes
* Netherlands' Rhine-Meuse delta palaeogeographic evolution
* German Lower Rhine Embayment palaeogeographic evolution
* Lower Rhine Holocene extreme-flood event-stratigraphy
* Contrasting and tracing past, modern and anticipated future geographical situations in NL at large.
* Sediment budgetting at delta and basin scale over 1000s of years
* Proglaciation and periglaciation in NW Europe's low lands.
Part of my time is allocated to cooperations with and consultations at Deltares and TNO Geological Survey of the Netherlands, working on the above topics, lining up activities overthere with the research at Utrecht University.
Rhine-Meuse delta channel belt mapping and dating in GIS and databases.
Kim Cohen during a sedimentological field trip to the tidal flats of the Westerscheldt estuary (SW Netherlands).
Scenario maps for the Southern North Sea and Strait of Dover region in interglacials, before and after the ice age of c. 450,000 years ago
Large ice-age erratic in Veenendaal news item
Map of the low countries in 2300 under extreme sea-level rise
Links
- Rhine-Meuse delta dataset infrastructure
- National Consortium research Land Subsidence 'Living on Soft Soils'
- Webpage Finding Suitable Grounds project
- National Consortium Research 'Constructing the Limes'
- Rhine-Meuse Sediment budgets Holocene, last millennium, last century
- website IUGS ICS www.stratigraphy.org
- Sketch map for The Netherlands in 2300 under extreme sea-level rise
- 2020 redo of Netherlands in 2300 map (news paper spread)
- Publons.com reviewer profile (academic peer-review)
- Doggerland Exposition (2021) National Museum Antiquities, Leiden.
- Map series drowning of Doggerland (with Olav Ode for RMO)
- Frontiers Loop profile page