Chair: Dr. Wim Z. Hoek (Utrecht University)

Wim Hoek (1966) is Lecturer in Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology at Utrecht University, Faculty of Geosciences, Dept. of Physical Geography . He is coordinator of the MSc-track Quaternary Geology and Climate Change. He studied Physical Geography with a specialization in Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology at Utrecht University. He obtained his PhD on the Palaeogeography of Lateglacial Vegetations in 1997 at the Faculty of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Wim is active in the INQUA Palaeoclimate subcommission on Integration of Icecore, Marine and Terrestrial Records (INTIMATE) since 1995. From 1999-2003 as secretary and from 2003-2008 as President of the North Atlantic INTIMATE Project (INQUA04-08).

E-mail:w.hoek@geo.uu.nl

Interests include:

• Correlation of Icecore, Marine and Terrestrial records (INTIMATE)
• Late Quaternary climate change
• Geomorphology, climate and vegetation interactions
• Tephrochronology and other dating techniques

Secretary: Dr. Wim Westerhoff (TNO Geological Survey of the Netherlands)

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Interests include:

• Quaternary Geology of the Netherlands
• Lithostratigraphy
• Early Pleistocene of the North Sea Basin

Prof. Dr. Thijs van Kolfschoten (University of Leiden)

Thijs van Kolfschoten (1952) is director of education of the Faculty of Archaeology and associate professor in mammalian palaeo- and archaeozoology and Quaternary biostratigraphy. He studied Geology and Biology and obtained his Ph.D. in Palaeontology, at the Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Utrecht (The Netherlands). After a research position at the Institute of Palaeontology, University of Bonn (Germany) he moved in 1992 to the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.

He was President of the INQUA-Subcommission on European Stratigraphy (SEQS) 1995-2003 and is Vice-president of the INQUA Commission on Stratigraphy and Chronology (SACCOM) since 2003 and secretary of the ICS/IUGS Subcommision of Quaternary Stratigraphy since 2001. He chairs INQUA-Netherlands since 2003. Thijs van Kolfschoten is founder of the European Quaternary Mammal Research Association (EuroMam) and secretary since 1994.

Interests include:

• Quaternary Mammals
• Pleistocene Stratigraphy
• Paleolithic Archaeology

Prof. Dr. Jef Vandenberghe (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)

Jef Vandenberghe is Quaternary geomorphologist and geologist. He focuses on palaeoclimatology and sedimentary environments and the usage of multidisciplinary approaches including geophysical prospecting methods and sedimentological analyses.

His research themes include:

• Quaternary palaeoclimatology and -ecology,
  focussing on methods of reconstruction of climate parameters, periglacial conditions;
  mainly working in fluvial and aeolian environments.
• Dynamics of fluvial systems:
  morphological, ecological and sedimentary processes and developments;
  mainly in relation to climate and climate changes.

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Prof. Dr. Henry Hooghiemstra (University of Amsterdam)

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Interests include:

• Palynology of South America

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Dr. Jeroen Schokker (TNO Geological Survey of the Netherlands)

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Jeroen maintains the INQUA-NL mailing list.

Interests include:

• Lithostratigraphy and Sedimentology
• Quaternary of the Netherlands
• OSL dating

Dr. Kim M. Cohen (Utrecht University)

Kim Cohen (1973) is employed at Utrecht University, Dept. of Physical Geography, where he studied and obtained his Ph.D. on Neotectonics in the Rhine-Meuse delta between 1993-2003. Kim Cohen has worked for the Max Planck Institute of Biogeochemistry (Jena, Germany) and was a visiting scholar of the University of Cambridge (U.K.) in 2003-2004. He returned to Utrecht University in 2005 to bridge between fluvial and coastal workers within the Utrecht Centre of Geosciences. Since 2008, he bridges between the Fac. of Geosciences and Deltares, the national delta institute. Kim Cohen maintains this INQUA-NL website. Kim chairs the Sedimentological Circle of KNGMG (Royal Netherlands' association for professionals in applied and academic earth Sciences).

Interests include:

• Palaeogeography of the North Sea Basin last 500 ka
• The Rhine-Meuse delta and Holocene eustasy
• Neotectonics and glacio-isostatic adjustment
• Fluvial archives, Sedimentary geometry and palaeodischarge estimation
• Global Quaternary Chronostratigraphy

Jos Deeben (RCE)

Jos Deeben graduated in Human Geography in Nijmegen and Prehistory in Amsterdam. Therafter, he studied the transition from Late Palaeolithic to Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in the low countries (NWO 1988-1992; University of Amsterdam 1992-1995). Since 1995 he was employed as senior researcher at the National Archaeological Survey (ROB, now RCE, a.k.a. RACM inbetween). Since 2002 Deeben is Head of Archaeological Heritage at the National Service for Cultural Heritage (RCE).

Interests include:

• Archaeology of Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers
• Predictive modelling of Archaeological value
• Environment interaction of prehistoric and early historic societies

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Dr. Jan-Berend Stuut (NIOZ)

Jan-Berend Stuut (1971) is employed at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) in the department of Marine Geology. Since his graduate studies in Utrecht University (1996) he has been trying to contribute to a better understanding of modern and past marine sedimentation processes, with main focus on aeolian-marine deposition. Being educated as a sedimentologist he is working with the physical, chemical and mineralogical properties of aeolian dust, both recent and dust found in sedimentary archives. In 2001 he received his PhD from Utrecht University and the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in marine geology and sedimentology. Before returning to NIOZ in 2009 he worked for 7.5 years in Bremen, Germany at the MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences.

Jan-Berend has been actively participating in INQUA GA's since Durban, Reno and Cairns amongst others by organizing scientific sessions on aeolian dust and the environmental history of the southern-hemisphere. Since 2004 he co-chairs (with Peter Kershaw, Monash Univ., Melbourne, Australia) the Palcom project PASH2: "Land-Ocean correlation of long records from the Southern Hemisphere on orbital and sub-orbital timescales".

Interests include:

• Main interest is climate-related sedimentation processes with special attention for aeolian dust.
• The major approach is to study wind-blown sediments from source to sink.
• Archives of aeolian dust: high-resolution Holocene sediment archives (sedimentation rates < 1m/kyr; both lacustrine and marine)
• Late Quaternary marine sediment archives to reconstruct palaeoenvironmental conditions in the source areas of the sediments.
• Present-day meteorological, physical, chemical, and mineralogical characteristics of dust source areas, and changes from source to sink(s).

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