Soil Geography and Landscape Group
Our mission is to improve and share understanding of soil patterns and landscape dynamics. We take an integrative approach that combines biophysical and human elements to gain insight in past, present and future system dynamics, and to support sustainable land management.
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We contribute to the BSc program in Soil, Water & Atmosphere and the MSc program Earth & Environment.
The Soil Geography and Landscape group is part of the Soil Science cluster
Research themes
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Earth Surface Dynamics
We analyse the past of soil and landscape systems to understand the current dynamics under global change and to project future pathways. This is achieved through assessing the landscape’s geological, geomorphological, geographical and biogeographical characteristics and evolution using various sampling and dating techniques and landscape evolution models. We improve the methodology of luminescence dating techniques.
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Human-Landscape Interaction
We study human-landscape interactions over a range of spatial and temporal scales, using geological, geomorphological, archaeological and historical data. We focus on soil and water quality, and land use sustainability.
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Geography and Data Science
We explore soil patterns and soil properties at different scales in space and time. We develop methods for quantifying soil properties combining expert knowledge, data science, geostatistics, remote and proximal sensing, and process-based modelling. We explicitly quantify uncertainties.
Recent publications
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Enhanced mud retention as an autogenic mechanism for sustained delta growth : Insight from records of the Lafourche subdelta of the Mississippi River
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Rapid assessment of soil contamination by potentially toxic metals in the green spaces of Moscow megalopolis using the portable X-ray analyzer
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Does perception mean learning? Insights from an online peer feedback setting