Projects
Quantifying threshold conditions for landward erosion and seaward expansion of tidal marsh shorelines. University of Antwerp
Ground-Rent, Financialization of Real-Estate and the Production of Space: The Choreography of Urban-Port Configurations around the Manchester Ship Canal and the Port of Antwerp KU Leuven
The mobilisation of land as a financial asset has become a defining feature of sociospatial restructuring in post-industrial European cities. Returning to the neglected literature on land rent, I argue that fundamental contradictions arise from treating land as capital which shape contemporary urban processes in important ways. I explore how these contradictions unfold by analysing the active political role of rentiers in urban restructuring ...
Out of the trenches: towards disentangling gradual and catastrophic changes across the K/T boundary KU Leuven
In a recent synthesis, it was convincingly shown that the impact of a large asteroid in the Gulf of Mexico coincided with the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) boundary, 66 million years ago, and with the sudden biodiversity decline known as the K/T mass extinction when numerous organisms became extinct. This mass extinction set the stage for the development of modern ecosystems and biota on land and in the sea. Yet, extinction patterns of various ...
Understanding the role of clouds in the climate of Greenland. KU Leuven
The Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) is the second largest body of ice on Earth. Holding a potential of 7 m of global mean sea level rise, its rapidly increasing mass loss in response to global climate change will affect the entire planet. This mass loss is partly the result of a strongly decreasing surface mass balance (SMB), predominantly through increased meltwater runoff. Yet, the mechanisms involved in this decreasing SMB remain poorly ...