Gilles Erkens

• Archeological Prospection of the Embanked Floodplains

  Rhine-Meuse Delta, The Netherlands, 2012-2016

  Positions held: Project leader
  Main project features: Automated mapping of archeological prospection of archaeology in the embanked floodplains of the Netherlands.
  Activities performed: project management, financial budgeting, human resources, client contacts, geological analyses.
  

• National subsidence map for The Netherlands

  The Netherlands, 2017

  Positions held: project leader and principal investigator
  Main project features: Forecasting different subsidence components in The Netherlands
  Activities performed: data collecting, GIS analyses, report writing, project management.
  

• Uncontrolled seepage and boil formation in the Middelburg-Tempelpolder

  Western Rhine-Meuse Delta, The Netherlands, 2017 - present

  Positions held: project manager, principle investigator
  Main project features: predicting current and future uncontrolled seepage in a subsiding polder
  Activities performed: field data collecting, geological analyses, report writing, project management.
  

• Uncontrolled seepage and boil formation in the Province of South-Holland

  Province of Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands, 2016-present

  Positions held: project manager, principle investigator
  Main project features: predicting current and future uncontrolled seepage in the province of South-Holland, by combing results from a subsidence model with a groundwater model
  Activities performed: forming conceptual idea, project set-up, subsidence calculations, geological analyses, co-organising a workshop, report writing, project management.
  

• Subsidence analyses of Kalimantan peatlands

  Kalimantan, Indonesia, 2012 - 2013

  Positions held: subsidence researcher
  Main project features: Field analyses of subsidence in recently cultivated peatlands for KFCP, AusAID (Australian government)
  Activities performed: Field data collecting, analysing field data, co-writing (conference) papers, co-organising a workshop for the local government.
  

• Subsidence analyses of the New Orleans urban area

  New Orleans, United States, 2012 - 2016

  Positions held: subsidence researcher
  Main project features: Analyses of subsidence components in the city of New Orleans for Waggonner & Ball Architects
  Activities performed: field data collecting, identifying components in total subsidence signal, calculating future subsidence rates, co-organising a workshop for the local government.
  

• Markermeer dyke stability

  North-Holland, The Netherlands, 2011-2012

  Positions held: researcher, geologist
  Main project features: Analyses of impact of peat in the subsurface on dyke stability for North-Holland Waterboard, composition of a new peat classification scheme
  Activities performed: Peat classification, sampling in the field, lab work, report writing
  

• Team Subsidence Deltares

  The Netherlands, 2011 - present

  Positions held: Programme leader
  Main project features: organising subsidence work at Deltares
  Activities performed: setting up subsidence research program, management of subsidence research and marketing activities, writing project proposals.
  

• Inventory of peat knowledge in The Netherlands

  The Netherlands, 2010 - 2011

  Positions held: Project manager, principal investigator
  Main project features: Inventory of all knowledge on peat deposits in the shallow part of the Dutch subsurface and recommendation for future research for the Dutch Geological Survey
  Activities performed: Interviewing, data collecting, report writing.
  

• A retrospective observatory of an archaeological society

  Rhine Valley, Germany, 2010-2014

  Main project features: The trajectory of the LBK Neolithic within the Atlantic (fluvial) environment for the French National Research Agency
  Activities performed: Explorative field work, core collecting in the field, core description, lab analyses, data analyses, report writing.
  

• The relative contribution of peat compaction and oxidation to subsidence in built-up areas in the Rhine-Meuse delta, The Netherlands.

  Van Asselen, S., Erkens, G., Stouthamer, E., Woolderink, H.A.G., Geeraert, R.E.E., Hefting, M.M. (2018). Science of the Total Environment 636 177-191.

• Impacts of 25 years of groundwater extraction on subsidence in the Mekong delta, Vietnam.

  Minderhoud, P.S.J., Erkens, G., Pham, V.H., Bui, V.T., Erban, L., Kooi, H., Stouthamer, E. (2006). Environmental Research Letters 12 (6) #064006

• Double trouble: Subsidence and CO2 respiration due to 1,000 years of Dutch coastal peatland cultivation.

  Erkens, G., Van der Meulen, M.J., Middelkoop, H. (2016). Hydrogeology Journal 24 (3) 551-568

• Global risks and research priorities for coastal subsidence.

  Allison, M., Yuill, B., Törnqvist, T., Amelung, F., Dixon, T.H., Erkens, G., Stuurman, R., Jones, C., Milne, G., Steckler, M., Syvitski, J., Teatini P. (2016). Eos Transactions American Geophysical Union 97(19) 22-27

• : A new soil mechanics approach to quantify and predict land subsidence by peat compaction

  Koster, K., Erkens, G., Zwanenbrug, C. (2016). Geophysical Research Letters 43 (20) 10,792-10,799

• Towards a global land subsidence map

  Erkens, G., Sutanudjaja, E.H. (2015). Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences 372 83–87

• Sinking Cities: An Integrated Approach to Solutions.

  Erkens, G. Bucx, T., Dam, R., De Lange, G., Lambert, J. (2015). In: The Making of a Riskier Future: How Our Decisions Are Shaping Future. Disaster Risk, edited by Global Facility
  for Disaster Reduction and Recovery. Washington, DC: World Bank. Case Study C 90-99
  

• Short Communication: Humans and the missing C-sink: erosion and burial of soil carbon through time.

  Hoffmann, T., Mudd, S. M., van Oost, K., Verstraeten, G., Erkens, G., Lang, A., Middelkoop, H., Boyle, J., Kaplan, J.O., Willenbring, J., Aalto, R. (2013). Earth Surface Dynamics 1 45-52

• Complex fluvial response to Lateglacial and Holocene allogenic forcing in the Lower Rhine Valley (Germany).

  Erkens, G., Hoffmann, T., Gerlach, R., Klostermann, J. (2011). Quaternary Science Reviews 30 (5-6) 611-627

• Sediment dynamics in the Rhine catchment - Quantification of fluvial response to climate change and human impact

  Erkens, G. (2009). Published PhD-thesis, Netherlands Geographical Studies 388 278 pp.

• Trends and controls of Holocene floodplain sedimentation in the Rhine catchment.

  Hoffmann, T., Erkens, G., Gerlach, R., Klostermann, J., Lang, A. (2009). Catena 77 96-106

• Quantification of intra-Holocene sedimentation in the Rhine-Meuse delta: A record of variable sediment delivery.

  Erkens, G., Cohen, K.M. (2009). Nederlandse Geografische Studies 388 117-171

• Fluvial terrace formation in the northern Upper Rhine Graben during the last 20 000 years as a result of allogenic controls and autogenic evolution.

  Erkens, G., Dambeck, R., Volleberg, K.P., Bouman, M.T.I.J., Bos, J.A.A., Cohen, K.M., Wallinga, J., Hoek, W.Z. (2009). Geomorphology 103 (3) 476-495

• Holocene sediment budgets of the Rhine Delta (The Netherlands): a record of changing sediment delivery

  Erkens, G., Cohen, K.M., Gouw, M.J.P., Middelkoop, H., Hoek, W.Z. (2006). IAHS-AISH Publication 306, 406-415.

• Holocene floodplain sediment storage and hillslope erosion within the Rhine catchment.

  Hoffmann, T., Erkens, G., Cohen, K.M., Houben, P., Seidel, J., Dikau, R. (2007). The Holocene 17 (1) 105-118

• Architecture of the Holocene Rhine-Meuse delta (the Netherlands) – A result of changing external controls.

  Gouw, M.J.P., Erkens, G. (2007). Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie en Mijnbouw 86 (1) 23-54

• Salt-marsh erosion associated with hurricane landfall in southern New England in the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries

  van de Plassche, O., Erkens, G., van Vliet, F., Brandsma, J., van der Borg, K., & de Jong, A. F. (2006). Salt-marsh erosion associated with hurricane landfall in southern New England in the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Geology, 34(10), 829-832.

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