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My experience in Systematic Review writing

August 1, 2022

Recently, I published a systematic review in Earth-Science Reviews along with my colleague Joris de Vente , in which we studied the impact of climate change on soil erosion, with an additional focus on conservation measures and land use change. This …

How to make a great graphical abstract

June 6, 2022

I’m sure that you at least once were demanded by a journal to make a graphical abstract for one of your publications. This is often viewed as something mandatory and many researchers reuse a figure from the paper for this purpose. However, I think …

Review IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

December 18, 2020

The IPCC is currently working on the new Sixth Assessment Report. Like with the five previous assessment reports, this report will be again a landmark publication for climate change research. In this blog post I want to tell about my experience with …

Visualizing Uncertainty in Maps

November 24, 2019

One of my main research topics is the impact of climate change on soil erosion. I often apply an ensemble of climate models to account for the uncertainty in the future climate projections. In this way, I can determine how (un)certain the soil …

Workshop Science Communication

September 18, 2019

The IAHS Early Career Committee (ECC) organized the Science Communication workshop at the IUGG General Assembly in Montreal. Three speakers were invited to talk about various subjects on how to communicate scientific results to the general public. …

Large-scale Soil Erosion Modeling

June 13, 2019

Recently, I have published a few articles on the impact of climate change on water security and potential adaptation strategies. The backbone of these articles is the SPHY model we have developed over the last few years. In this blog post I will tell …

3d Illustrations for Scientific Articles

December 8, 2018

In one of my latest publications I took some of my illustrations to the next level. I used 3D software to illustrate some of the key aspects of the soil erosion model I have developed. In this blog post I will tell some about the software I used and …

Making Science Videos

October 20, 2018

In this blog post I want to tell some about why and how I started to make science videos. I started making videos about a year ago and have made 4 videos up to now. Please check out these videos in the Videos section . About 1 year ago I run into the …

How I made this website

August 25, 2018

Welcome to my blog! In this first blog post I want to tell you how I made this awesome website. I won’t go into the finest details, but will tell you about the experience I got with the tools I used to make this website. I will start with a brief …