Margreet van Marle PhD
Expert on wildfires and climate resilience
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Margreet.vanMarle@deltares.nl LinkedIn profileDr. Margreet van Marle started working at Deltares in 2017 and has experience in wildfires, multi-hazard risk assessments, infrastructure resilience and climate change. She has been involved in projects as climate change and disaster risk expert to increase resilience in (international) projects in Albania, Paraguay, Indonesia, Niger and the Dominican Republic. Currently she is working on i) consulting and leading multi-hazard risk assessment and adaptation projects; ii) developing tools to assess and evaluate the damage and criticality of road networks. She is the product owner of the by Deltares developed tooling for Resilience Assessment and Action perspective on Critical infrastructurE (RA2CE); iii) performing climate change impact assessments on natural hazards and iv) using earth observation techniques in impact near real time impact assessments. During her PhD about deforestation, wildfire hazards and climate change she developed several deforestation and fire emissions datasets based on satellite observations, which acted as forcing data for the AR6 IPCC model runs. Margreet has professional working proficiency in Dutch, English and Spanish.
Working experience
| 2017 - present | Deltares | Researcher Climate Resilient Infrastructure |
| 2012 - 2017 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | PhD on Fire and Deforestation dynamics |
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Wildfire susceptibility mapping in the Netherlands
the Netherlands, 2021
Positions held: Project lead, wildfire expert
Main project features: The Climate Effect Atlas is an atlas with maps of different kind of hazard information which is used by the Dutch municipalities in order to gain insight on climate effects and where measures should be taken.
Activities performed: Development of a nation-wide susceptibility map for wildfires based on vegetation, climate and societal parameters. This is validated with the Dutch Fire Weather Service.
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RA2CE software development
Global, 2020- present
Positions held: Product Owner, Core Development team
Main project features: RA2CE - Resilience Assessment and Adaptation for Critical infrastructurE helps to quantify resilience of critical infrastructure networks, prioritize interventions and adaptation measures and select the most appropriate action perspective to increase resilience considering future conditions.
The platform supports governments, intergovernmental agencies, IFIs and infrastructure owners to gain insight in long-term cost-beneficial investment strategies with the goal to make their infrastructure network resilient to natural and man-made hazards.
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Resilient transport infrastructure in the Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic, 2019-2021
Positions held: Project lead, expert climate change and resilience
Main project features: Support of the government of public works on where and how investments should be made to develop a more resilient transportation network.
Activities performed: Multi-hazard resilience assessment, development of a web-based tool to assess damages and socio-economic climate change impacts of natural hazards. Develop and provide training to the government on how to perform a resilience assessment, how to make decisions under deep uncertainty and how to use the results of the analyses for specific situations.
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Wildfire susceptibility for crisis management
the Netherlands, 2021
Positions held: Project lead, wildfire expert
Main project features: Support of the Dutch ministry of infrastructure and water which locations are most vulnerable for long-lasting high-impact wildfires in the Netherlands.
Activities performed: Development of nation-wide vulnerability maps for potentially large fires to be used by crisis managers.
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Climate Proof Networks
the Netherlands, 2019- present
Positions held: expert climate resilient infrastructure
Main project features: Support of the Dutch ministry of Infrastructure and Water on how they should improve their highway network to become more adapted to climate change in 2050.
Activities performed: Design of the stresstest methodology for conducting a multi hazard resilience assessment of the Dutch highway network, measures identification and assessment for developing adaptation strategy
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Earth Observation for Raw Materials (EO4RM)
European Union, 2019- 2021
Positions held: expert satellite remote sensing
Main project features: The objective of this study is to establish current information needs and best practises for the use of Earth Observation based products and services for the mining sector with a focus on the extraction of raw materials.
Activities performed: The main outputs of the project are:
• To unlock current EO services and products for the mining sector
• To showcase these services and products in an virtual platform
• To build a Roadmap towards EO services best practice guidelines
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Near real-time flood impact assessment on critical infrastructure.
Myanmar, 2020
Positions held: expert climate resilient infrastructure
Main project features: Impact analysis during the Myanmar 2019 floods by identifying the accessibility to health care.
Activities performed: Using satellite-based flood extent in a criticality assessment to estimate near real time the impact of floods on road infrastructure network in Myanmar. To be used in the humanitarian response.
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Climate sensitivity of Dutch highway, railway and inland water transport networks for Integral Mobility Analysis
the Netherlands, 2021
Positions held: expert climate resilient infrastructure
Main project features: a study of climate change and its influence on the Dutch mobility system (roads, railways and waterways).
Activities performed: Mapping the locations where the Dutch main infrastructure of roads, railways and waterways are susceptible to climate change related damages and losses. Identify the locations where adaptation options are available.
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Critical Infrastructure and Cascading Effects
the Netherlands, 2020
Positions held: expert climate change and resilient infrastructure
Main project features: Support the national water and climate knowledge and innovation platform how to protect critical and vital functions in society.
Activities performed: Develop state of the art on risk assessments for multi-hazards on critical infrastructure and cascading effects. Translate these for application by users including public and private companies.
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Brief Communication: Critical Infrastructure impacts of the 2021 mid-July western European flood event
Koks, E., Van Ginkel, K., Van Marle, M., & Lemnitzer, A. (2021). Brief Communication: Critical Infrastructure impacts of the 2021 mid-July western European flood event. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 1-11.
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Climate Change Adaptation of Geo-Structures in Europe: Emerging Issues and Future Steps
Insana, A., Beroya-Eitner, M. A., Barla, M., Zachert, H., Žlender, B., van Marle, M., ... & Löfroth, H. (2021). Climate Change Adaptation of Geo-Structures in Europe: Emerging Issues and Future Steps. Geosciences, 11(12), 488.
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The generation of gridded emissions data for CMIP6
Feng, L., Smith, S. J., Braun, C., Crippa, M., Gidden, M. J., Hoesly, R., ... & Van Der Werf, G. R. (2020). The generation of gridded emissions data for CMIP6. Geoscientific Model Development, 13(2), 461-482.
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Emergent relationships with respect to burned area in global satellite observations and fire-enabled vegetation models
Forkel, M., Andela, N., Harrison, S. P., Lasslop, G., Van Marle, M., Chuvieco, E., ... & Arneth, A. (2019). Emergent relationships with respect to burned area in global satellite observations and fire-enabled vegetation models. Biogeosciences, 16(1), 57-76.
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Historic global biomass burning emissions for CMIP6 (BB4CMIP) based on merging satellite observations with proxies and fire models (1750–2015)
Van Marle, M. J., Kloster, S., Magi, B. I., Marlon, J. R., Daniau, A. L., Field, R. D., ... & Van Der Werf, G. R. (2017). Historic global biomass burning emissions for CMIP6 (BB4CMIP) based on merging satellite observations with proxies and fire models (1750–2015). Geoscientific Model Development, 10(9), 3329-3357.
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Fire and deforestation dynamics in Amazonia (1973-2014)
van Marle, M. J., Field, R. D., van der Werf, G. R., de Wagt, I. A. E., Houghton, R. A., Rizzo, L. V., ... & Tsigaridis, K. (2017). Fire and deforestation dynamics in Amazonia (1973–2014). Global biogeochemical cycles, 31(1), 24-38.
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Global fire emissions estimates during 1997–2016
Van Der Werf, G. R., Randerson, J. T., Giglio, L., Van Leeuwen, T. T., Chen, Y., Rogers, B. M., ... & Kasibhatla, P. S. (2017). Global fire emissions estimates during 1997–2016. Earth System Science Data, 9(2), 697-720.
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Annual South American Forest Loss Estimates (1990-2010) Based on Passive Microwave Remote Sensing
Van Marle, M. J. E., Van Der Werf, G. R., De Jeu, R. A. M., & Liu, Y. Y. (2016). Annual South American forest loss estimates based on passive microwave remote sensing (1990–2010). Biogeosciences, 13(2), 609-624.
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The impacts of recent drought and fire in lowland Bolivia on forest loss and regional smoke emissions
Heyer, J. P., Power, M. J., Field, R. D., & van Marle, M. J. The impacts of recent drought and fire in lowland Bolivia on forest loss and regional smoke emissions.
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Analyzing the vegetation parameterization in the TU-Wien ASCAT soil moisture retrieval
Vreugdenhil, M., Dorigo, W. A., Wagner, W., De Jeu, R. A., Hahn, S., & Van Marle, M. J. (2016). Analyzing the vegetation parameterization in the TU-Wien ASCAT soil moisture retrieval. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 54(6), 3513-3531.
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Comparison of SMOS and AMSR-E vegetation optical depth to four MODIS-based vegetation indices
Grant, J. P., Wigneron, J. P., De Jeu, R. A. M., Lawrence, H., Mialon, A., Richaume, P., ... & Kerr, Y. (2016). Comparison of SMOS and AMSR-E vegetation optical depth to four MODIS-based vegetation indices. Remote Sensing of Environment, 172, 87-100.
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Validation of annual variations in satellite based transpiration and soil moisture using tree ring data
De Jeu, R. A. M., Miralles, D. G., Van Marle, M. J. E., Dorigo, W. A., Wagner, W., & Liu, Y. Y. (2011). Validation of annual variations in satellite based transpiration and soil moisture using tree ring data. In Proceedings, Water Information Research and Development Alliance Science Symposium.
Activities
| 2021 - present | Chair | Young Scientific Council Deltares |
| 2019 - present | Member | ELGIP focus group on Climate Change Adaptation |
| 2020 - present | Technical Secretary | UNESCO Working Group on Land Subsidence (LaSII) |