Conference abstracts of Rob Govers

2025

Taco Broerse, Ali Değer Özbakιr, Rob Govers, Did the Mw 7.5 Sürgü-Cardak Event Occur During the 2023 Kahramanmaraș Sequence Without Prior Slip Deficit?, EGU annual meeting, Vienna, 2025.
Caroline van Calcar, Taco Broerse, Io Ioannidi, Tom Breithaupt, David Wallis, Matthias Willen, Riccardo Riva, Wouter van der Wal, Rob Govers, Present-day deglaciation driving transient upper-mantle deformation: modelling fast uplift rates in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, EGU annual meeting, Vienna, 2025.
Caroline van Calcar, Taco Broerse, Io Ioannidi, Tom Breithaupt, David Wallis, Matthias Willen, Riccardo Riva, Wouter van der Wal, Rob Govers, Present-day deglaciation driving transient upper-mantle deformation: modelling fast uplift rates in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Workshop, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada, 2025.
Renato Gutierrez Escobar, Rob Govers, Numerical modelling of stresses and deformation in the Eurasian tectonic plate through Bayesian inversion, EGU annual meeting, Vienna, 2025.
Yuta Hiruma, Tom de Gast, Esther Stouthamer, Ramon Hanssen, Femke Vossepoel, Rob Govers, Modeling (Sub)surface Deformation: Linking Groundwater Dynamics to Precipitation and Land Use, Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres (NAC) 2025, Noordwijk.
Celine Marsman, Femke Vossepoel, Rob Govers, Towards a 3D Earthquake Cycle Model Powered by Data Assimilation for Northeastern Honshu, EGU annual meeting, Vienna, 2025.
Nicolai Nijholt, Rob Govers, Wim Simons, How do plate boundaries talk to each other in North Sulawesi, Indonesia?, EGU annual meeting, Vienna, 2025.
Weilun Qin, Rob Govers, Natasha Barlow, Riccardo Riva, Quantifying Holocene Relative Sea-level Changes in the Cascadia Subduction Zone: Insights from Megathrust Earthquake Cycles and Glacial Isostatic Adjustment, Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres (NAC) 2025, Noordwijk.
Riccardo Riva, Lukas van de Wiel, Taco Broerse, Weilun Qin, Rob Govers, Finite element modelling of GIA with the GTecton package, Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Workshop, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada, 2025.
Lukas van de Wiel and Rob Govers, GTecton 2024.5: Samples From our Benchmarking tests, Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres (NAC) 2025, Noordwijk.
Lukas van de Wiel, Riccardo Riva, Taco Broerse, Weilun Qin, and Rob Govers, Finite element modelling of glacial isostatic adjustment with the GTecton package, Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres (NAC) 2025, Noordwijk.

2024

Renato Gutierrez Escobar and Rob Govers, New steps towards estimating the driving and resistive forces on the Eurasian plate, Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres (NAC) 2024, Utrecht.
Rob Govers, Eva Bijlsma and Sietse Vos, A New View on Interseismic Locking of the Hikurangi Megathrust Along the North Island of New Zealand, Annual Meeting of the Seismological Society of America, Anchorage, Alaska, USA (May 1, 2024).
Yuta Hiruma, Esther Stouthamer, Ramon Hanssen, Femke Vossepoel, Rob Govers, Developing a Data-Constrained Forecasting Model of Surface Deformation in the Groningen Gas Field Region, DeepNL Scientific Meeting, Lunteren, The Netherlands (November 15, 2024).
Marsman C., Vossepoel F., D´Acquisto M., van Dinther Y., van de Wiel L, Govers R., Bayesian Inference of Subduction Processes from Observations Before and After the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, ESC General Assembly, Corfu, 2024.
Celine Marsman, Femke Vossepoel, Mario D´Acquisto, Ylona van Dinther, Rob Govers, Bayesian Inference of Rheological Parameters from Observations Before and After the Tohoku Earthquake, Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres (NAC) 2024, Utrecht.
Celine Marsman, Femke Vossepoel, Mario D´Acquisto, Ylona van Dinther, Rob Govers, Bayesian Inference of Rheological Parameters from Observations Before and After the Tohoku Earthquake, Annual Meeting of the Seismological Society of America, Anchorage, Alaska, USA (May 1, 2024).
Weilun Qin, Rob Govers, Natasha Barlow, Riccardo Riva, Linking Megathrust Earthquakes and Relative Sea-level Changes in the Cascadia Subduction Zone with An Earthquake Cycle Model, AGU Fall Meeting, Washington DC, 2024.
Weilun Qin, Rob Govers, Mario D´Acquisto, Natasha Barlow, Riccardo Riva, Bridging geological and geodetic observations for the 1700 Cascadia earthquake with an earthquake cycle model, EGU annual meeting, Vienna, 2024.
Tiziana Sgroi, Graziella Barberi, Luca Gasperini, Rob Govers, Nicolai Nijholt, Giuseppe Lo Mauro, Andrea Artoni, Luigi Torelli, Marco Ligi, Alina Polonia, Seismogenesis in the Messina Straits area (Southern Italy) and the complex geodynamics and structural development of the Central Mediterranean, ESC General Assembly, Corfu, 2024
Marius Wouters and Rob Govers, A streamlined model to predict subsidence in Groningen due to reservoir compaction, Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres (NAC) 2024, Utrecht.

2023

Taco Broerse, Mario D´Acquisto, Celine Marsman, Alireza Amiri Simlooei, Rob Govers, Realistic interseismic strain rate uncertainties from inherently sparse GNSS-networks (EGU23-6332), EGU annual meeting, Vienna, 2023.
Rob Govers, Matthew Herman, Lukas van de Wiel, Nicolai Nijholt, Probabilistic Assessment of the Causes of Active Deformation in Greece, western Anatolia, and the Balkans Using Spherical Finite Element Models (EGU23-8603), EGU annual meeting, Vienna, 2023.
Renato Gutierrez Escobar, Candela Garcia Sacho, Rob Govers,New steps toward estimating the driving and resistive forces on the Eurasian plate (EGU23-6297), EGU annual meeting, Vienna, 2023.
Matthew W. Herman, Kevin P. Furlong, Rob Govers, Resolving Locked Asperities in Subduction Zones with Onshore and Offshore Geodetic Measurements: Opportunities and Challenges (G43B-0497), AGU Fall meeting 2023, San Francisco, USA.
Celine Marsman, Femke Vossepoel, Ylona van Dinther, Mario D´Acquisto, Rob Govers, Probabilistic estimation of postseismic relaxation parameters and processes following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake (EGU23-7253), EGU annual meeting, Vienna, 2023.
Celine Marsman, Femke C. Vossepoel, Mario D´Acquisto, Ylona van Dinther, and Rob Govers, Bayesian Inference of Rheological Parameters from Observations Before and After the Tohoku Earthquake (G13B-0456), AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, 2023.
Riccardo Riva, Lukas van de Wiel, Taco Broerse, Weilun Qin, Rob Govers, Finite element modelling of GIA with the GTECTON package (C13E-1180), AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, 2023 (retracted).
Wim Simons, Taco Broerse, Lin Shen, Nicolai Nijholt, Olga Kleptsova, Andrew Hooper, Julie Pietrzak, Yu Morishita, Marc Naeije, Stef Lhermitte, Rob Govers, Christophe Vigny, Pieter Visser, and Riccardo Riva, A Tsunami Generated by a Strike-Slip Event: Constraints From GPS and SAR Data on the 2018 Palu Earthquake (EGU23-8291), EGU annual meeting, Vienna, 2023.
Femke Vossepoel, Arundhuti Banerjee, Hamed Diab Montero, Meng Li, Celine Marsman, Ylona van Dinther, Nonlinear Data Assimilation for State and Parameter Estimation in Earthquake Simulation (EGU23-9529), EGU annual meeting, Vienna, 2023.
Weilun Qin, Rob Govers, Mario D´Acquisto, Natasha Barlow, Riccardo Riva, A first step towards separating earthquake cycles´s signals in palaeo sea-level records, INQUA 2023, Rome, 2023.

2022

Taco Broerse, Rob Govers, and Ernst Willingshofer, Delayed lithospheric tearing along STEP faults, EGU meeting GD5.1, Vienna, EGU-5335, 2022 pdf.
Mario D‘Acquisto, Matthew W. Herman, Riccardo, M.A. Riva, Rob Govers, On the cause of enhanced landward motion in adjacent segments of subduction zones after megathrust earthquakes, EGU meeting G3.4, Vienna, EGU-11691, 2022 (retracted).
Mario D‘Acquisto, Matthew W. Herman, Riccardo, M.A. Riva, Rob Govers, On the cause of enhanced landward motion in adjacent segments of subduction zones after megathrust earthquakes, AGU fall meeting, Chicago, 2022.
Mario D‘Acquisto, Taco Broerse, Celine Marsman, Rob Govers, Reconciling the conflicting extent of overriding plate deformation before and during megathrust earthquakes in South America, Sunda, and northeast Japan, (oral) AGU fall meeting, Chicago, 2022.
Rob Govers, Matthew Herman, Lukas van de Wiel, and Nicolai Nijholt, A Probabilistic Assessment of the Causes of Active Deformation in the East Central Mediterranean Using Spherical Finite Element Models, EGU meeting TS4.1, Vienna, EGU-8132, 2022 (retracted)
Rob Govers, Matthew Herman, Lukas van de Wiel, and Nicolai Nijholt, A Probabilistic Assessment of the Causes of Active Deformation in the East Central Mediterranean Using Spherical Finite Element Models, Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, Utrecht, Netherlands, 5-6 September, 2022.
Rob Govers, Matthew Herman, Lukas van de Wiel, Nicolai Nijholt, Searching for Order in the Jungle: A Probabilistic Assessment of the Causes of Active Deformation in the East Central Mediterranean Using Spherical Finite Element Models, AGU Fall Meeting, Chicago, 2022.
Renato Gutierrez Escobar, Candela Garcia, Magdala Tesauro, Wouter van der Wal, Douwe van Hinsbergen, Rob Govers, Quantitative constraints on pre-production reservoir stresses in Groningen: project overview, Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, Utrecht, Netherlands, 5-6 September, 2022..
Samantha Kim, Femke Vossepoel, Marius Wouters, Rob Govers, Wietske Brouwer, and Ramon Hanssen, Optimizing the use of InSAR observations in data assimilation problems to estimate reservoir compaction, EGU meeting TS1.4, Vienna, EGU-11879, 2022, doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-11879.
Marsman, C., Vossepoel, F., van Dinther, Y. and Govers, R., Parameter estimation for interseismic surface deformation using sequential data assimilation, Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, Utrecht, Netherlands, 5-6 September, 2022.
Celine Marsman, Femke Vossepoel, Ylona van Dinther, and Rob Govers, Parameter estimation for interseismic surface deformation using data assimilation, EGU meeting G3.4, Vienna, EGU-6189, 2022 (retracted)
Celine Marsman, Femke Vossepoel, Ylona van Dinther, en Rob Govers, Towards Estimating Postseismic Parameters and Processes Using Ensemble Data Assimilation, AGU Fall meeting, Chicago, 2022.
Marius Wouters, Samantha Kim, Femke Vossepoel, and Rob Govers, On the recoverability of geomechanical model complexities from surface deformation data above the Groningen gas field, EGU meeting TS1.4, Vienna, EGU-11387, 2022 (retracted).
Marius Wouters, Samantha Kim, Femke Vossepoel, and Rob Govers, DeepNL/Subsidence: On the recoverability of geomechanical model complexities from surface deformation data above the Groningen gas field, Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, Utrecht, Netherlands, 5-6 September, 2022.
Marius Wouters, Ramon Hanssen, and Rob Govers, Sensitivity of subsidence data in the northeastern Netherlands to geological complexities, AGU Fall meeting, Chicago, 2022.
Weilun Qin, Riccardo Riva, Natasha Barlow, and Rob Govers, On the GIA and tectonics-induced vertical land motions in the Cascadia Subduction Zone since the last glacial cycle - A PhD research plan, NAC meeting, Utrecht, 2022.
Weilun Qin, Riccardo Riva, Rob Govers, Natasha Barlow, Removing Tectonics-induced Signals from Holocene Sea-level Records Using Finite Element Models, PALSEA-A-0023, PALSEA 2022, Singapore, 2022.

2021

Mario D‘Acquisto, Taco Broerse, and Rob Govers, Presence and significance of backstops in the overriding plate during the megathrust earthquake cycle, EGU e-meeting, EGU21-7344, 2021, doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7344
Mario D‘Acquisto, Taco Broerse, Riccardo Riva and Rob Govers, On the cause of enhanced landward motion of the overriding plate after a major subduction earthquake. G25C-0372, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, doi:10.1002/essoar.10509437.1, 2021.
Mario D‘Acquisto, Taco Broerse, Celine Marsman and Rob Govers, Why is interseismic shortening of the overriding plate largely restricted to the near-trench region? T43C-09, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, DOI: 10.1002/essoar.10509660.1, 2021.
Rob Govers, Candela Garcia, Magdala Tesauro, Wouter van der Wal, Douwe van Hinsbergen, Renato Gutierrez Escobar, Quantitative constraints on pre-production reservoir stresses in Groningen, DeepNL Scientific Meeting, Utrecht, 2021.
Rob Govers, Matthew Herman, Lukas van de Wiel, Nicolai Nijholt, A Probabilistic Assessment of the Causes of Active Deformation in the East Central Mediterranean Using Spherical Finite Element Models, G25C-0380, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, DOI: 10.1002/essoar.10509095.1, 2021.
Rob Govers, Taco Broerse, Matthew Herman, Tectonic Context of the August 2021 South Sandwich Islands Earthquake Sequence: Plate Boundary Geometry and Kinematics at Active STEPs, S45H-2529, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, DOI: 10.1002/essoar.10509096.1, 2021.
Matthew Herman, Kevin Furlong, Kirsty McKenzie, Rob Govers, What is coupled in subduction zones? Quantitative estimates of megathrust asperity distributions from slip deficit maps, T32B-08, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, 2021.
Marsman, C.P., Vossepoel, F.C., van Dinther, Y., and Govers, R., Parameter estimation for interseismic surface deformation using data assimilation, AGU Fall Meeting 2021, New Orleans, LA & online, 13-17 Dec 2021, G25C-0371
Marius Wouters, Rob Govers, The influence of fault slip, compaction variability and lithological layering on surface deformation above the Groningen gas field, Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres (NAC) 2021.
Marius Wouters, Ramon Hanssen, Rob Govers, Using PS-InSar observations to detect aseismic fault slip in the seismically active Groningen gas field, G35D-02, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, 2021, doi: 10.1002/essoar.10509685.2.

2020

Taco Broerse, Ernst Willingshofer, Dimitrios Sokoutis, and Rob Govers, Lithosphere deformation due to tearing at STEPs: an analogue model approach, EGU Vienna, 2020 (pdf).
Rob Govers, Taco Broerse, and Matthew W. Herman, Observations of Backstops in the Overriding Plate During the Megathrust Earthquake Cycle, JpGU − AGU joint meeting 2020, Chiba, Japan, 2020.
Mario D‘Acquisto, Matthew W. Herman, and Rob Govers, On the cause of enhanced landward motion of the overriding plate after a major subduction earthquake, EGU Vienna, 2020 (pdf) doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-18250.
Mario D‘Acquisto, Matthew Herman, Rob Govers, On the cause of enhanced landward motion of the overriding plate after the Tohoku-Oki earthquake, JpGU − AGU joint meeting 2020, Chiba, Japan, 2020.
Mario D‘Acquisto, Matthew Herman, Rob Govers, On the cause of enhanced landward motion of the overriding plate after a major subduction earthquake, AGU Fall meeting, 2020.
Ramon Hansen, Marius Wouters, Ali Amootaghi, Udit Asopa, Marc Bruna, Chayenne Janssen, Samantha Kim, Femke C Vossepoel, Esther Stouthamer, Rob Govers, Monitoring and modeling land subsidence due to hydrocarbon production integrating geodesy and geophysics, AGU fall meeting 2020.
Matthew W. Herman, Rob Govers, Lukas van de Wiel, and Nicolai Nijholt, Probabilistic constraints on lithospheric forces, fault tractions, and rheology in the east Mediterranean region, EGU Vienna, 2020 (pdf).
Matthew W. Herman, Rob Govers, and Kevin P. Furlong, Stress evolution during the megathrust earthquake cycle and its role in triggering extensional deformation in subduction zones, GSA 2020.
Matthew W. Herman, Rob Govers, Lukas van de Wiel, and Nicolai Nijholt, A method for constraining the causes of active tectonic deformation using 2D finite element models in a Bayesian framework, AGU Fall meeting, 2020.
Samantha Kim, Femke Vossepoel, Ramon F. Hanssen, Marius Wouters, Rob Govers, and Esther Stouthamer, A particle method strategy to estimate subsidence induced by a high-dimensional disc-strain model for reservoir compaction, EGU Vienna, 2020 (pdf) doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-22117.
Samantha Kim, Femke Vossepoel, Ramon F. Hanssen, Marius Wouters, Rob Govers, and Esther Stouthamer, A particle method strategy to estimate subsidence induced by a high-dimensional disc-strain model for reservoir compaction, NAC Utrecht, 2020 (pdf).
Marius Wouters, Rob Govers, Samantha Kim, Femke Vossepoel, Esther Stouthamer, Ramon Hanssen, What can we learn from the pattern of subsidence above the Groningen gas field? A study of the sensitivity of the subsidence to the subsurface structure and deformation processes, NAC Utrecht, 2020 (pdf).
Marius Wouters and Rob Govers, Sensitivity of surface deformation to reservoir and overburden characteristics in the Groningen (Netherlands) gas field: first results, AGU fall meeting, 2020 (pdf).

2019

Taco Broerse, Ernst Willingshofer, Dimitrios Sokoutis, and Rob Govers, Lithospheric tearing at STEPs and associated upper plate deformation: an analogue model approach, EGU Vienna, 2019 (pdf).
Mario D‘Acquisto, Rob Govers, and Matthew W. Herman, Insights on the postseismic surface displacement field of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake via 3D viscoelastic seismic-cycle FEM models, EGU Vienna, 2019 (pdf).
Mario D‘Acquisto, Rob Govers, and Matthew W. Herman, Finite element modeling of earthquake-induced enhanced landward motion due to elastic deformation and modulated by viscous relaxation, AGU San Francisco, 2019 (pdf).
Rob Govers, Taco Broerse, and Matthew W. Herman, Observations of Backstops in the Overriding Plate During the Megathrust Earthquake Cycle, EGU Vienna 2019.
Rob Govers and Matthew Herman, Causes of extensional deformation in subduction zones following megathrust earthquakes, AGU San Francisco, 2019 (pdf).
Rob Govers, Taco Broerse, Matthew W. Herman, Mario D’Acquisto, and Kevin P. Furlong, Linking Seismicity and (Paleo)Geodetic Observations to Megathrust Earthquake Cycle Processes, Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres NAC, Utrecht, 2019 (pdf).
Matthew Herman and Rob Govers, The relationship between earthquake cycle processes and normal faulting earthquakes in subduction zone: A case study of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, EGU Vienna, 2019. (pdf)
Matthew Herman and Rob Govers, Resolving locked asperities and slip deficit in unlocked regions: A new inversion method applied in the South America subduction zone, AGU San Francisco, 2019 (pdf).
Nicolai Nijholt, Rob Govers, and Rinus Wortel, The Gibraltar arc: can various (near)surface observations be explained through lithospheric-scale forces? EGU Vienna, 2019 (pdf).
Nicolai Nijholt, Matthew Herman, Rob Govers, Estimating forces and rheology from kinematic observations in the western Mediterranean,, AGU San Francisco, 2019 (pdf).
Ali Değer Özbakιr, Rob Govers, Andreas Fichtner, and Rinus Wortel, The Kefalonia Transform Fault: a STEP in the making, EGU Vienna, 2019 (pdf).
Ali Değer Özbakιr, Rob Govers, and Andreas Fichtner, When does slab fragmentation evolve into a STEP fault? The Kefalonia Transform Fault case study, AGU San Francisco 2019 (pdf).
Marius Wouters, Amy Tuck-Martin, Jürgen Adam, Graeme Eagles, and Rob Govers, Paleo-stress modelling of Africa from plate kinematic reconstructions, EGU Vienna, 2019 (pdf).
Marius Wouters, Amy Tuck-Martin, Jürgen Adam, Graeme Eagles, and Rob Govers, Dynamics of Africa 75 Ma: from plate kinematic reconstructions to intraplate paleo-stresses, AGU San Francisco, 2019 (pdf).

2018

Taco Broerse, Ben Norder, Rob Govers, Dimitrios Sokoutis and Ernst Willingshofer, An analog material for ductile non-linear lithosphere rheology: application to lithospheric tearing, EGU Vienna, 2018.
Taco Broerse, Rob Govers, Dimitrios Sokoutis and Ernst Willingshofer, Plate boundary geometry resulting from lithospheric tearing at active STEPs: an analogue model approach, AGU fall meeting, Washington D.C., 2018.
Kevin Furlng, Matthew W. Herman, and Rob Govers, Linking Paleogeodesy Observations with Geodynamic Models of Megathrust Earthquakes: Implications for Cascadia and Other Megathrust Zones, AGU fall meeting, Washington D.C., 2018.
Kevin Furlong, Matthew W. Herman and Rob Govers, Megathrust Earthquake Cycles: Linking Paleogeodesy Observations with Geodynamic Models, EGU Vienna 2018.
Kevin Furlong, Matthew W. Herman and Rob Govers, Making the Connection Between Paleogeodesy Observations and the Megathrust Earthquake Cycle: the Role of Geodynamic Models, AOGS Honolulu 2018.
Rob Govers, Taco Broerse, and Matthew W. Herman, Observations of Backstops in the Overriding Plate During the Megathrust Earthquake Cycle, AGU fall meeting, Washington D.C., 2018.
Rob Govers, Taco Broerse, and Matthew W. Herman, Megathrust Earthquake Cycle: Observations of Backstops in the Overriding Plate and Their Link With Tectonic Setting, EGU2018-14039, EGU Vienna 2018 (pdf)
Rob Govers, Kevin Furlong, Lukas van de Wiel, Matt Herman, Taco Broerse, Reconciling short and long term observations of megathrust earthquake cycles at subduction zones, NAC Veldhoven (Netherlands), 2018.
Rob Govers, Taco Broerse, Steven van Benthem, Wim Spakman, and Rinus Wortel, Mantle structure of the Caribbean and its geodynamic consequences, invited presentation, Annual Meeting of the Seismological Society of America, Miami, 2018.
Rob Govers, Matthew Herman, Taco Broerse, and Kevin Furlong, Reconciling short and long term observations of megathrust earthquake cycles at subduction zones, Annual Meeting of the Seismological Society of America, Miami, 2018.
Matthew W. Herman and Rob Govers, Overprinting the signal of inter-seismic coupling on subduction megathrusts throughout the earthquake cycle, EGU Vienna, 2018.
Matthew W. Herman, Rob Govers, Modeling the spatial and temporal evolution of normal faulting earthquakes in the upper plate of the Japan subduction zone after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, AGU fall meeting, Washington D.C., 2018.
Nicolai Nijholt, Rob Govers and Rinus Wortel, On the forces that drive and resist deformation of the south-central Mediterranean: a mechanical model study, EGU2018-11914, EGU Vienna, 2018.
Manuel Roda, Rob Govers and Tanja E. Zegers, A multidisciplinary approach to the study of the Chaotic Terrains on Mars, Italian Geological Society, Catania (Italy), 2018.
Wim J. F. Simons, Riccardo Riva, Julie Pietrzak, Matt Herman, Andy Hooper, Christophe Vigny, Susilo, Dina Sarsito, Sofian, Taco Broerse, Olga Kleptsova, Stef Lhermitte, Nicolai Nijholt, Lin Shen, Joni Efendi, Marc Naeije, Harsha Bhat, Rob Govers, Tsunami potential of the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake from GNSS constrained source mechanism, AGU fall meeting, Washington D.C., 2018 (pdf).
Lukas van de Wiel, Rob Govers, Matt Herman, Bob Sluis, Nicolai Nijholt, Benchmarking the massively parallel GTECTON finite element platform, NAC Veldhoven (Netherlands), 2018.
Rinus Wortel and Rob Govers, Modes of nappe emplacement in thrust belts: The Appennines, Italy, EGU Vienna, 2018.

2017

Taco Broerse, Rob Govers, Dimitrios Sokoutis, and Ernst Willingshofer, Tear geometry at active STEPs: an analogue model approach, EGU Vienna, GD5.1, 2017
Candela Garcia, Magdala Tesauro, and Rob Govers, Active tectonics in Indochina and Tibet are a consequence of plate-scale forces on the Eurasian plate (SE02-A0006), AOGS Singapore, 2017
Rob Govers, and Kevin Furlong, Reconciling short and long term observations of megathrust cycles at subduction zones, EGU Viena, TS5.1, 2017
Rob Govers, and Kevin Furlong, Reconciling short and long term observations of megathrust cycles at subduction zones, IAG-IASPEII, Kobe (Japan), 2017 (pdf)
Rob Govers, and Kevin Furlong, Reconciling short and long term observations of megathrust cycles along the Sumatra-Andaman margin and other subduction zones (SE21-A018), AOGS Singapore, 2017
Herman, Matt, Kevin Furlong, and Rob Govers, Implications of loading/unloading a subduction zone with a heterogeneously coupled interface, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, 2017.
Kevin Furlong, Rob Govers, Hidden Earthquake Potential in Plate Boundary Transition Zones, EGU Vienna, TS5.1, 2017
Nicolai Nijholt, Rob Govers, and Rinus Wortel, A slab expression in the Gibraltar arc?, EGU Vienna, TS7.1, 2017
Amy Tuck-Martin, Jurgen Adam, Graeme Eagles, Rob Govers, Tectono-Stratigraphic Framework and Paleostress Modelling of the East African Margin, HGS/PESGB Africa Conference, London, 31st August-1st September 2017
Rinus Wortel, Rob Govers, and Alina Polonia, Nappes, STEPs and the depth-dependence of orogenic arc formation, EGU Vienna, TS7.1, 2017

2016

Taco Broerse, Riccardo Riva, and Rob Govers, Lateral variability in southeast Asia: combining gravity and GPS time series after the 2004 Sumatra megathrust event, EGU Vienna, 2016.
Kevin Furlong, Rob Govers, and Matt Hermann, Building a Framework Earthquake Cycle Deformational Model for Subduction Megathrust Zones: Integrating Observations with Numerical Models, EGU Vienna, 2016.
Candela Garcia-Sancho, Rob Govers, and Magala Tesauro, Eurasia's deformation as a consequence of plate-scale forces: a model study, Netherlands Earth Sciences Conference NAC, Velthoven, 2016
Rob Govers & Kevin Furlong, The signature of the earthquake cycle at subduction zones: insights from simple mechanical models, G31C-04, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2016.
Rob Govers, Kevin Furlong, and Matt Hermann, The signature of the earthquake cycle at subduction zones: comparing geodetic observations with long-term models for Mw>8 events, EGU Vienna, 2016.
Rob Govers, The recent earthquake swarm in Italy, Headline Lecture Graduate School of Geosciences, Utrecht University, November 1 2016.
Rob Govers, The signature of the earthquake cycle at subduction zones, FEST (Earth Sciences department lecture), Utrecht University, November 11 2016.
Matthew H. Herman, Kevin P. Furlong, Rob Govers, Constraining interseismic deformation processes in subduction zones through simple mechanical models, T13A-2669, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2016.
Nicolai Nijholt, Rob Govers, and Rinus Wortel, Lithosphere Dynamics in the South-Central Mediterranean (Sicily-Calabria), T51A-2888, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2016.
Nicolai Nijholt, Rob Govers, and Rinus Wortel, Interplay of plate convergence and arc migration in the central Mediterranean (Sicily and Calabria), EGU Vienna, 2016.

2015

Jeroen Bartol, Rob Govers and Rinus Wortel, Late Cretaceous – recent lithosphere scale evolution of Turkey: linking the crustal surface evolution to the structure of the mantle, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2015.
Kevin Furlong, Rob Govers and Matt Hermann, Time-Varying Upper-Plate Deformation during the Megathrust Subduction Earthquake Cycle, EGU Vienna, April 2015.
Kevin Furlong, Rob Govers and Matt Hermann, Time-Varying Upper-Plate Deformation during the Megathrust Subduction Earthquake Cycle, IASPEI Prague, June 2015.
Kevin Furlong, Rob Govers and Matt Hermann, Implications of Time-Varying Upper-Plate Deformation During the Megathrust Subduction Earthquake Cycle for Hazard Assessment, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society Meeting AOGS 2015 in Singapore, August 2015.
Kevin Furlong, Rob Govers and Matt Hermann, Time-Varying Upper-Plate Deformation During the Megathrust Subduction Earthquake Cycle, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2015.
Candela Garcia-Sancho, Rob Govers, and Magdala Tesauro, Present-day deformation of the intra-Eurasian plate regions, EGU Vienna, 2015.
Candela Garcia-Sancho, Rob Govers, and Magdala Tesauro, Active tectonics in the Tibetan Plateau region as a consequence of plate-scale forces on the Eurasian plate: a model study, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2015.
Rob Govers and Andreas Fichtner, New seismological evidence for fragmentation of the Tethys slab beneath Anatolia, EGU2015-10752 (GD6.3), EGU Vienna, 2015.
Rob Govers, The seismic cycle at subduction zones: insights from simple finite element models (invited key-note lecture), SMPR 2015 conference, Kish Island (Iran), November 23-25, 2015.
Rob Govers, Candela Garcia-Sancho, Karin Warners-Ruckstuhl, Janneke van der Burgt, and Rinus Wortel, A consistent geodynamic model for predicting the velocity and plate-internal deformation of Eurasia (invited), EGU2015-11136 (GD3.3), EGU Vienna, April 2015.
Rob Govers and Jeroen Bartol, A single cause for uplift of the Central and Eastern Anatolian plateau? EGU2015-15234 (TS3.8), EGU Vienna, April 2015.
Rob Govers, Steven van Benthem, and Rinus Wortel, What drives micro-plate motion and deformation in the northeastern Caribbean plate boundary region? 20th Caribbean Geological Conference, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 2015.
Rob Govers and Andreas Fichtner, New seismological evidence for fragmentation of the Tethys slab beneath Anatolia (invited), AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2015.
Rob Govers, Steven van Benthem, and Rinus Wortel, What drives micro-plate motion and deformation in the northeastern Caribbean plate boundary region? (invited), AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2015.
Pete LaFemina, Rob Govers, Hector Mora-Paez, Haldor Geirsson and Eduardo Camacho, The Cocos Ridge drives collision of Panama with northwestern South America, EGU Vienna, April 2015.
Pete LaFemina, Rob Govers, Gorki Ruiz, Haldor Geirsson, Eduardo Camacho, and Hector Mora-Paez, The Effects of Aseismic Ridge Collision on Upper Plate Deformation: Cocos Ridge Collision and Deformation of the Western Caribbean, T33B-05, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2015.
Pete LaFemina, Rob Govers, Andres Ruiz, Haldor Geirsson, Hector Mora-Paez, and Eduardo Camacho, Cocos Ridge Collision, Deformation of the Western Caribbean and Final Closure of the Isthmus of Panama (invited), GSA Baltimore 2015.
Nicolai Nijholt and Rob Govers, On the evolution of Subduction-Transform Edge Propagators (STEPs): inspiration from the Pliny-Strabo ‘trenches’, EGU Vienna, April 2015.
Alina Polonia, Rinus Wortel, Nicolai Nijholt and Rob Govers, Deformation of the Calabria Arc subduction complex and its relation to STEP activity at depth, EGU Vienna, April 2015.
George Marketos, Rob Govers, and Chris Spiers, Hydrocarbon reservoirs with rocksalt caprocks: time dependence of ground-surface settlements and the effect of the rocksalt creep model, EGU Vienna, April 2015.
George Marketos, Rob Govers, Chris Spiers and Tony Mossop, Surface subsidence induced by hydrocarbon extraction, and the potential for time-dependent ground deformation, 49th ARMA Rock Mechanics, San Francisco, U.S.A., June 28-July 1, 2015.

2014

Walter Austmann, Rob Govers, and Evgenii Burov The role of elastic compressibility in dynamic subduction models, EGU2014-13465, EGU Vienna, April 30 2014.
Garcia-Sancho, Govers, Warners-Ruckstuhl, and Tesauro, Present-day intra-plate deformation of the Eurasian plate, EGU2014-6036, EGU Vienna, May 2 2014.
Govers, R., R. Wortel, K. Warners-Ruckstuhl, and J. van der Burgt, Dating the collision of India by tracking the evolution of forces on Eurasia, Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, Veldhoven 2014.
Govers, Warners-Ruckstuhl, Garcia-Sancho, Wortel, A consistent geodynamic model for predicting the velocity and plate-internal deformation of Eurasia, Wegener conference, Leeds (UK), September 1-4 2014.
Govers, R., and J. Bartol, A single cause for uplift of the Central and Eastern Anatolian plateau, TopoEurope 10 meeting, Barcelona, September 17-19, 2014.
Govers, R., van Benthem, S., and R. Wortel, What drives microplate motion and deformation in the northeastern Caribbean plate boundary region? Congres of the Italian Geological Society SGI-SIMP, Milan Italy, September 10-12, 2014.
Govers, R., van Benthem, S., and R. Wortel, What drives microplate motion and deformation in the northeastern Caribbean plate boundary region? abstract 241733, GSA Annual Meeting, Vancouver (Canada), 19-22 October, 2014.
Govers, R., and Nijholt, N., On the evolution of Subduction-Transform Edge Propagators (STEPs): consequences for the Calabrian arc, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A., 15-19 December 2014.
Broerse, T., Riva, R. Govers, R., Simons, W., and Vermeersen, B., Lateral variations in subduction zone rheology from combined GRACE and GPS observations, Wegener conference, Leeds (UK), September 1-4 2014.
Marketos, G., R. Govers and C. Spiers, Modeling the (Sub)surface Deformation Field Evolution Due to Production from a Hydrocarbon Reservoir Overlain by Rocksalt, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A., 15-19 December 2014.
Nicolai Nijholt & Rob Govers, On the evolution of Subduction-Transform Edge Propagators (STEPs): consequences for the Calabrian arc, TopoEurope 10 meeting, Barcelona, September 17-19, 2014.
Plattner, Amelung, Baker, Govers, and Poland, The role of viscous magma mush spreading in volcanic flank motion at Kilauea Volcano, Hawai'i, EGU2014-1645, EGU Vienna, April 28 2014.
Polonia, Torelli, Artoni, Bortoluzzi, Faccenna, Ferranti, Gasperini, Govers, Monaco, Neri, Orecchio, and Worte,l A new plate boundary in the Ionian Sea, EGU2014-11464, EGU Vienna, April 29 2014.

2013

Austmann, W., and R. Govers, The significance of elasticity for a sinking cylinder in a fluid with an Earth-like compressible rheology, EGU, Vienna, April 7-12, 2013 (pdf).
Govers, R., R. Wortel, K. Warners-Ruckstuhl, and J. van der Burgt, Dating the collision of India by tracking the evolution of forces on Eurasia, EGU, Vienna, April 7-12, 2013 (pdf).
Roda, M., R. Govers, and T.E. Zegers, Testing the sub-ice lake model for chaotic terrains on Mars: a numerical simulation, EGU, Vienna, April 7-12, 2013 (pdf).
van Benthem, S., R. Govers, W. Spakman, and R. Wortel, Tectonic evolution and mantle structure of the Caribbean, EGU, Vienna, April 7-12, 2013 (pdf).
van der Burgt. J., R. Govers, P. Webb, G. Stampfli, C. Vérard, C. Hochard, J.H. Davies, and R. Wortel, The dynamics of the Eurasian plate and the intraplate stress field in the Middle-Late Eocene, EGU, Vienna, April 7-12, 2013 (pdf).
Warners-Ruckstuhl, K., R. Govers, and R. Wortel, Dynamics and stress field of the Eurasian plate, EGU, Vienna, April 7-12, 2013 (pdf).
Govers, R., R. Wortel, K. Warners-Ruckstuhl, and J. van der Burgt, Dating the collision of India by tracking the evolution of forces on Eurasia, GSC-GSA joint meeting Roof of the World, Chengdu, China, June 17-19, 2013.
Roda, M., R. Govers and T. E. Zegers - Sub-ice lake scenario for Chaotic Terrains on Mars. European Planetary Science Congress 2013, London.
Roda, M., R. Govers and T. E. Zegers – Testing sub-ice lake scenario for Chaotic Terrains on Mars: A numerical simulation. Geoitalia 2013, Pisa.
Govers, R., Dating the collision of India by tracking the evolution of forces on Eurasia [invited], ETH seminar November 29, 2013.
Roda, M., R. Govers and T. E. Zegers – Melting and mechanical stability of sub-ice lake: a possible scenario for Aram Chaos evolution (Mars). Riunione Annuale Gruppo Italiano di Geologia Strutturale 2013, Milan
George, O., R. Malservisi, R. Govers, C. Connor, and L. Connor, A finite element modeling investigation on the effects of magma underplating on topographic variation and exhumation rates over long time scales, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A., 9-13 December 2013.
Broerse, D.B.T., W.J.F. Simons, R.E.M. Riva, L.L.A. Vermeersen, R. Govers, Lateral variations in subduction zone rheology from combined GRACE and GPS observations, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A., 9-13 December 2013 (pdf).
Govers, R., R. Wortel, K. Warners-Ruckstuhl, and J. van der Burgt, Dating the collision of India by tracking the evolution of forces on Eurasia, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A., 9-13 December 2013 (pdf).
Furlong, K.P., and R. Govers, Reconciling Pre- and Co-Seismic Deformation at Megathrusts: Tohoku Informing Cascadia, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A., 9-13 December 2013 (pdf).
R. Wortel, R. Govers, and S. van Benthem, What drives microplate motion and deformation in the northeastern Caribbean plate boundary region?, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A., 9-13 December 2013 (pdf).
Austmann, W., and R. Govers, The role of elastic compressibility in dynamic subduction models, Abstract T31C-2518 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 9-13 Dec.

2012

Austmann, W.F., and R. Govers, The effect of elastic compressibility in geodynamic models using a benchmark of a sinking cylinder in a bounded medium, EGU, Vienna, April 23-27, 2012 (pdf).
Bartol, J., R. Govers, and M. J. R Wortel, Mantle delamination as the cause for the Miocene-Recent evolution of the Central and Eastern Anatolian Plateau, EGU, Vienna, April 23-27, 2012 (pdf).
Furlong, K.P., and R. Govers, Partitioning subduction deformation throughout the earthquake cycle: Why Pre-earthquake and co-earthquake deformation patterns don’t agree, EGU, Vienna, April 23-27, 2012 (pdf).
Govers, R., K. Warners-Ruckstuhl, C. Hochard, P. Webb, R. Wortel, G. Stampfli, C. van Oosterhout, and J. H. Davies, Evolution of forces on Eurasia since the Miocene, EGU, Vienna, April 23-27, 2012 (pdf).

2011

Baes, Marzieh, Rob Govers, and Rinus Wortel, Study of different lithospheric responses to continental collision: Insight from numerical models, Geoscience society of New Zealand conference, Nelson, New Zealand, 27 November to 1 December, 2011 (pdf).
Bartol, Jeroen, Rob Govers, and Rinus Wortel, The central Anatolian plateau: relative timing of uplift and magmatism, EGU, Vienna, Austria, April 4-8, 2011 (pdf).
Furlong, Kevin P., and Rob Govers, Partitioning deformation in subduction regimes throughout the earthquake cycle, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A., 5-9 December 2011.
Govers, Rob, Rinus Wortel, and Marzieh Baes, Initiation of the post-Oligocene subduction phase in the Western Mediterranean, EGU, Vienna, Austria, April 4-8 2011 (pdf).
Govers, Rob, Karin Warners-Ruckstuhl, Cyril Hochard, Peter J Webb, Sandrine Quere, Marinus J R Wortel, Gérard Stampfli, Cees van Oosterhout, J. Huw Davies, Torque balance evolution of Eurasia since the Miocene, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A., 5-9 December 2011.
LaFemina, P.C., Govers, R., Geirsson, H., Kobayashi, D., 2011. Cocos Ridge Collision as a Driver for Plate Boundary Deformation in the Western Caribbean, Abstract T51A-23, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 5-9 Dec, 2011.
Plattner, Christina, Falk Amelung, Scott Baker, Rob Govers, Mike Poland, Modeling flank motion at Kilauea volcano (Hawai’i): Insights in the dynamic interaction between tectonic and magmatic driving forces for volcano deformation, EGU, Vienna, Austria, April 4-8 2011 (pdf).
Plattner, Christina , Falk Amelung, Scott Baker, Rob Govers, Michael P Poland, Yan Lavallee, Modeling “secular” flank motion at Kilauea Volcano (Hawai’i) during 2000-2003, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A., 5-9 December 2011.
Riva, Riccardo, and Rob Govers, Postseismic deformation following the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake from dedicated post-processing of GRACE data, EGU, Vienna, Austria, April 4-8 2011.
Warners-Ruckstuhl, Karin, Rob Govers, and Rinus Wortel, The Eurasian stress field: important role of topography and mantle flow, EGU, Vienna, Austria, April 4-8, 2011 (pdf).
Wortel, Rinus, Rob Govers, and Marzieh Baes, Plate boundary reorganization in the western-central Mediterranean: Initiation of subduction along the southern boundaries?, EGU, Vienna, Austria, April 4-8 2011.

2010

Baes, Marzieh, Rob Govers, and Rinus Wortel, Subduction initiation along a weakened margin: Insights from numerical models of STEP faults, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2010 (pdf).
Bartol, Jeroen, Rob Govers, and Rinus Wortel, The central Anatolian plateau: new insights from thermal-flexural modeling, GSA meeting Tectonic Crossroads: Evolving Orogens of Eurasia-Africa-Arabia, Ankara, Turkey, 4-8 October 2010 (pdf).
Bartol, Jeroen, Rob Govers, and Rinus Wortel, On the cause of Miocene uplift of the Central Anatolian plateau: new insights from thermal-flexural modeling, 6th TOPO-EUROPE Workshop, 4-7 November 2010 (pdf).
Bartol, Jeroen, Rob Govers, and Rinus Wortel, A possible cause of the Miocene uplift and volcanism in the central Anatolian plateau, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A.,13-16 December 2010 (pdf).
Bartol, J., Rob Govers, and Rinus Wortel, Uplift of the eastern and central Anatolian plateau; New insights from thermal modeling, NAC (Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres) , Veldhoven, The Netherlands, 22-23 April, 2010.
Govers, Rob, Roberta de Franco, and Rinus Wortel, How the subduction contact controls the response to continental collision, GSA meeting Tectonic Crossroads: Evolving Orogens of Eurasia-Africa-Arabia, Ankara, Turkey, 4-8 October 2010 (pdf).
Govers, Rob, Roberta de Franco, and Rinus Wortel, Nature of the plate contact and subduction zone diversity, GSA meeting Tectonic Crossroads: Evolving Orogens of Eurasia-Africa-Arabia, Ankara, Turkey, 4-8 October 2010.
Govers, Rob, Rinus Wortel, and Marzieh Baes, Initiation of the post-Oligocene subduction phase in the Western Mediterranean [invited], AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A.,13-16 December 2010 (pdf).
Govers Rob, Subduction zone diversity and great earthquakes, UU-China Workshop "Dynamics of crustal faulting: from great earthquakes to human-induced seismicity", June 7-9, 2010.
Govers, R., Wortel, R. and Baes, M., On the cause of Miocene opening of the Western Mediterranean, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A.,13-16 December 2010 (invited).
Özbakιr, Ali, Rob Govers and Rinus Wortel, The nature and location of the plate boundary between the Anatolian and African plates, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2010 (pdf).
Özbakιr, Ali, Rob Govers and Rinus Wortel, The nature and location of the plate boundary between the Anatolian and African plates, GSA meeting Tectonic Crossroads: Evolving Orogens of Eurasia-Africa-Arabia, Ankara, Turkey, 4-8 October 2010 (pdf).
Quere, Sandrine, Karin Ruckstuhl, Rinus Wortel, Rob Govers, Cyril Hochard and Gérard Stampfli, Towards modelling the evolution of intra plate stress : the Eurasian plate 20 Ma, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2010 (pdf)
Warners-Ruckstuhl, K.N., Govers, R., and Wortel, R. Imprint of global mantle convection on the intra-plate stress field of Eurasia, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A.,13-16 December 2010.
Wortel, R., Govers, R., and Baes, M., Plate boundary reorganization in the western Mediterranean, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A.,13-16 December 2010.

2009

Bartol, J. and R. Govers, Messinian-Pontian Crisis in the Black Sea: Constraining the magnitude of sea level drop, EGU (SSP17), Vienna, Austria, 2009.
Furlong, K.P., Hayes, G.P., Govers, R., and Malservisi, R.,The 29 September Mw8+ Samoa Earthquake: Tectonic drivers and reactivated detachment faults?, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A., 2009.
Plattner, T., Malservisi, R., and Govers, R., Dynamic effects of micro-plate transfer: Lessons from Baja California (invited), MX, IASPEI (L1), Cape Town, South Africa, 2009.
Plattner, T., Malservisi, R., and Govers, R., Microplate transfer by lithospheric coupling forces at the plate boundary, EGU2009-5040, Vienna, Austria, 2009.
Plattner, T., Amelung, F., Dixon, T., and Govers, R., Surface subsidence induced by the Crandall Mine (Utah) collapse: InSAR observations and anelastic modeling, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A., 2009.
Riva, R.E.M., and R. Govers, Relating viscosities from post-seismic relaxation to a realistic viscosity structure for the lithosphere, EGU (GD7/G21), Vienna, Austria, 2009.
Ruckstuhl, K., P. Th. Meijer, M.J.R. Wortel, and R. Govers, How important is the mantle's fingerprint on the lithospheric stress field?, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A., 2009.
van Benthem, S., R. Govers, and W. Spakman, An evaluation of Neogene tectonic reconstructions for the eastern Caribbean using tomography, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A., 2009.

2008

Baes, M., Govers, R., and Wortel R., Subduction initiation in the western Mediterranean: preliminary results of numerical modeling, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2008 (pdf).
Baes, M., R. Govers, R. Wortel, Geodynamic models of Late Oligocene subduction initiation in the Western Mediterannean, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A., 2008 (html).
Bartol J. and Govers, R. Flexural response of the Black Sea to the Messinian Salinity Crisis, Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, Velhoven, Netherlands, 2008 (pdf).
Van Benthem S. and Govers, R. Dynamics of the Caribbean and Panama plates, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2008 (pdf).
DeFranco, R., Govers, R., and Wortel, R. Nature of the plate contact and subduction zones diversity, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2008 (pdf).
DeFranco, R., Govers, R., and Wortel, R., Subduction Zone Diversity and Nature of the Plate Contact, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A., 2008 (html).
Domzig, A., Govers, R., Wortel, R., Deverchere, J., and Yelles, K., The western Algerian Margin: an Example of a Miocene STEP (Subduction-Transform Edge Propagator)? New constraints for the geodynamic evolution of the Alboran region, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2008 (pdf).
Govers, R. On the Messinian evolution of the western Alboran region, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2008 (pdf).
Govers, R. On the Messinian evolution of the western Alboran region, Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, Veldhoven, Netherlands, 2008 (pdf).
Plattner, T., Malservisi, R., and Govers, R. Do stalled slab fragments drive Baja California?, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2008.
Plattner, C., R. Malservisi, R. Govers, G. Iaffaldano, Baja transfer by partial coupling with the Pacific plate, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A., 2008 (html).
Tirel, C., Wortel, R. Govers, R., Brun, J.-P., Burov, E. Accretion of continental nappes along a convergent plate boundary, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2008 (pdf).
van Benthem S. and Govers, R., The Caribbean plate: Pushed, pulled or dragged?, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A., 2008 (html).
van Benthem S. and Govers, R. Dynamics of the Caribbean and Panama plates, Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, Veldhoven, Netherlands, 2008 (pdf).
Wortel, M.J.R., Govers, R., and Spakman, W., Collisional processes in the Africa-Eurasia convergence zone, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2008 (pdf).
Wortel, M.J.R., R. Govers, W. Spakman, Continental Collision and the STEP-wise Evolution of Convergent Plate Boundaries: The Mediterranean Region, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A., 2008 (html).

2007

Domzig, A., J. Deverchere, K. Yelles, R. Govers, R. Wortel, C. Petit, A. Cattaneo, A. Kherroubi, and the MARADJA Scientific teams, The Algerian Margin: an example of reactivation in compression of a complex Cenozoic passive margin, AGU, San Francisco, U.S.A., 2007 (pdf)
De Franco, R., R. Govers, and R. Wortel, From oceanic lithosphere subduction to continental collision: Influence of the plate contact, AGU, San Francisco, U.S.A, 2007 (pdf)
De Franco, R., R. Govers, and R. Wortel, The impact of having a subduction channel or a subduction fault (invited), EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2007 (pdf)
Govers, R., P. Th. Meijer, and W. Krijgsman, Solid earth response to Messinian Salinity Crisis events, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2007 (pdf).
Malservisi, R., R. Govers and K. Furlong, How does a lithospheric plate boundary adapt to changes in plate motion? An example from South Island of New Zealand EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2007.

2006

De Franco, R., R. Govers, and R. Wortel, Subduction along a subduction fault or along a subduction channel: expected signatures from 2D numerical experiments, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2006 (pdf)
Furlong, K.P., and R. Govers, Topo-Mendocino - The link between topography and lithospheric processes in the wake of the Mendocino triple junction in northern California, USA, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2006 (pdf).
Govers, R., and P. Langebroek, Discriminating between possible causes for active tectonics of the SE Carpathians, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2006 (pdf).
Govers, R., P. Th. Meijer, and W. Krijgsman, Solid earth response to complete dessication of the Mediterranean as predicted from a 3D regional isostasy model, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2006 (pdf).
Govers, R., M.J.R. Wortel, and K. Ruckstuhl, STEP faults and their role in Mediterranean geodynamics, Third EUROMARGINS conference, Bologna, 4th-7th October 2006 (pdf).
Govers, R., P. Th. Meijer, and W. Krijgsman, Solid earth response to MSC events as predicted from a 3D regional isostasy model,R.C.M.N.S. Interim Colloquium "The Messinian salinity crisis revisited-II" Parma (Italy), 7th-9th September 2006 (pdf).
Govers, R., P. Th. Meijer, and W. Krijgsman, Solid earth response to the Messinian salinity crisis, H23, AGU, San Francisco, US, 2006 (pdf).
Lafemina, P., T. Dixon, and R. Govers, Cocos Ridge collision: Tectonic escape and mountain building in Central America, Geological Society of America annual meeting, Philadelphia, U.S., 2006 (html).
Malservisi, R., R. Govers and K. Furlong, How does a lithospheric plate boundary adapt to changes in plate motion? An example from South Island of New Zealand, T22, AGU, San Francisco, US, 2006.
Riva, R.E.M., and R. Govers, Is it possible to constrain a realistic viscosity structure for the crust?, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2006 (pdf).
Ruckstuhl, K., R. Govers, and M.J.R. Wortel, Consequences of STEP's in the Calabrian subduction region, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2006 (pdf).
Wortel, M.J.R., W. Spakman, and R. Govers, Deep structure and evolution of the Cyprus Arc, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2006 (pdf).

2005

De Franco, R., and R. Govers, Subduction following continent-continental fragment collision: insights from two-dimensional numerical experiments (solicited), 06917, EGU, 2005 (pdf).
Govers, R., and P. Langebroek, Geodynamic Models of Active Tectonics in the South-East Carpathians (Romania), U51B-02, AGU, San Francisco, US, 2005 (pdf).
Govers, R., and M.J.R. Wortel, Lithosphere tearing at STEP faults and return flow around slab edges: geodynamic models with possible implications for the eastern Aegean region, International symposium on the Geodynamics of Eastern Mediterranean: active tectonics of the Aegean region, Istanbul, Turkey, 2005.
Govers, R., P. Langebroek, A. van der Hoeven, W. Spakman , and B. Ambrosius , What's moving Vrancea?, 09335 , EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2005 (pdf).
Malservisi, R., K.P. Furlong, and R Govers, Lithospheric-scale plate boundary response to changes in plate motion, T21C-0502, AGU, San Francisco, US, 2005 (pdf).
Ruckstuhl, K., R. Govers, and M.J.R Wortel, Lithosphere tearing at STEP faults: dynamic consequences of slab edges in the Central Mediterranean 07591, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2005 (pdf).
Schmalzle, G.M., P. LaFemina, T. Dixon, R. Malservisi, R. Govers, and J. Oldow, Strain Patterns Across the Eastern California Shear Zone, G21B-1281, AGU, San Francisco, USA, 2005 (pdf).
Schmalzle, G., T. Dixon, R. Malservisi, and R. Govers, Strain Accumulation Across the Central San Andreas Fault: Impact of Laterally Varying Crustal Properties, Joint Assembly of AGU, SEG, NABS and SPD/AAS, New Orleans, USA, 2005 (pdf).

2004

De Franco, R., and R. Govers, A preliminary investigation of the continuity of subduction following terrane accretion, EGU, Nice, France, 2004 (pdf).
Goes, S., S. van der Lee, R. Govers, and P. Vacher, Seismic constraints on the thermal structure of continental lithosphere (invited EGU04-A-04662), Nice, France, 2004 (pdf).
Govers, R., and R. Wortel, Slab-Transform Edge Propagator (STEP) faults: dynamic consequences as inferred from modeling, EGU04-A-06235, EGU, Nice, France, 2004 (pdf).
Govers, R., and R. Wortel, Lithosphere Tearing and Mantle Flow due to Slab Edges in the SW Pacific, Western Pacific Geophysical Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2004 (pdf).
Riva, R., R. Govers, and A. Aoudia, Crustal lateral heterogeneities and postseismic relaxation (invited EGU04-A-00484), EGU, Nice, France, 2004 (pdf).
Ruckstuhl, K., R. Govers, and M.J.R. Wortel, Lithosphere tearing at STEP faults: dynamic consequences of slab edges, EuroMargins, Barcelona, Spain, 2004.
Wortel, M.J.R., and Rob Govers, Dynamic consequences of plate tearing at lateral terminations of subducting slabs: Slab-Transform Edge-Propagator (STEP) faults, IGC, Florence, Italy, 2004.

2003

de Franco, R., and R. Govers, Consequences of different rheologies on numerical models of subduction, 8th Workshop 'Numerical modeling of mantle convection and lithosphere dynamics', Castle of Hruba Skala, Czech Republic, September 13 - 18, 2003.
Govers, R., and R. Wortel, Dynamics of slab-transform plate boundaries: preliminary finite element models of the south-central Mediterranean uppermost mantle and lithosphere, 8th Workshop 'Numerical modeling of mantle convection and lithosphere dynamics', Castle of Hruba Skala, Czech Republic, September 13 - 18, 2003.
Riva, R., R. Govers, A. Aoudia, and B. Vermeersen, Influence of lateral variations in crustal mechanical properties on postseismic deformation, EGU, Nice, France, 2003.

2002

Govers, R., In between strike slip and subduction: lithosphere scale transitional tectonics of the Southern Alps, Invited abstract SE31D-04, EOS Trans. AGU, 83(22), 71, Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Wellington, New Zealand, 2002.

2001

Buiter, S., R. Govers, R. Wortel, and M. van der Meulen, Could slab detachment explain the Late Miocene uplift of Northern Italy?, Annales Geophysicae Supplement, European Geophysical Society Meeting, Nice, France, 2001.
Buiter, S.J.H., R. Govers, and M.J.R. Wortel, A modelling study of vertical displacements at convergent plate margins, 7th Workshop 'Numerical modeling of mantle convection and lithosphere dynamics', Aussois, France, 2001.
Govers, R., and P. Th. Meijer, Is the Juan de Fuca Plate driven by neighbor plates?, Abstract T12C-0924, EOS Trans. AGU, 82(47), Fall Meeting Suppl., 2001.

2000

Govers, R., Lithosphere Scale Geodynamic Simulations of Transpression, Vijfde Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, Veldhoven (Netherlands), 2000.
Govers, R., and P. Th. Meijer, On the Dynamics of the Juan de Fuca Plate, EOS Trans. AGU, 81 (48), F1096, Fall Meeting Suppl., San Francisco (U.S.A.), 2000.
Govers, R., M.J.R. Wortel, and S.J.H. Buiter, Surface expressions of slab break-off: results from 3D numerical models, Annales Geophysicae Supplement, European Geophysical Society Meeting, Nice (France), 2000.
Malservisi, R., K.P. Furlong, and R. Govers, Australian plate flexure int the Fiordland (New Zealand) subduction, Geophysical Research Abstracts, 2, European Geophysical Society Meeting, Nice (France), 2000.

1999

Buiter, S.J.H., R. Govers, and M.J.R. Wortel, Surface motions due to slab detachment, Geophysical Research Abstracts, 1, 65, European Geophysical Society Meeting, The Hague (Netherlands), 1999.
Buiter, S., R. Govers, and R. Wortel, A modelling study of vertical surface displacements at convergent plate margins, EOS Trans. AGU, -, -, Fall Meeting Suppl., San Francisco (U.S.A.), 1999.
Furlong, K.P., and R. Govers, Geodynamics of the Mendocino triple junction, Geophysical Research Abstracts, 1, 67, European Geophysical Society Meeting, The Hague (Netherlands), 1999.
Furlong, K.P., S.Y. Schwartz, and R. Govers, Crustal structure and mantle dynamics in the wake of the Mendocino Triple Junction, EOS Trans. AGU, Fall Meeting Suppl., San Francisco (U.S.A.), 1999.
Goes, S., R. Govers, and P. Vacher, Shallow mantle temperatures under Europe from P and S wave tomography, Geophysical Research Abstracts, 1, 48, European Geophysical Society Meeting, The Hague (Netherlands), 1999.
Govers, R., Lithosphere scale transitional tectonics between strike-slip and subduction: Application to the western Mediterranean, the northeast Pacific, and New Zealand, Geophysical Research Abstracts, 1, 65, European Geophysical Society Meeting, The Hague (Netherlands), 1999.
Malservisi, R., K.P. Furlong, and R. Govers, The role of Australian plate flexure on Fiordland (New Zealand) topography, EOS Trans. AGU, Fall Meeting Suppl., San Francisco (U.S.A.), 1999.

1998

Buiter, S.J.H., R. Govers, and M.J.R. Wortel, Numerical simulations of the surface effects of slab detachment, Abstract en Programmaboek, 4e Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, Veldhoven (Netherlands), 1998.
Buiter, S.J.H., R. Govers, and M.J.R. Wortel, Numerical simulations of the surface effects of slab detachment: The Apennines, Annales Geophysicae Supplement, 16(I), C13, European Geophysical Society Meeting, Nice (France), 1998.
Buiter, S., R. Govers, and M.J.R. Wortel, 2D Simulations of the Surface Effects of Slab Detachment, EOS Trans. AGU, 103, F849, Fall Meeting Suppl., San Francisco (U.S.A.), 1998.
Dillisse, I., S. Goes, R. Govers, and P. Vacher, Imaging upper mantle temperature and composition using seismic velocities: A test for the Mendocino triple junction area., Annales Geophysicae Supplement, 16(I), C35, European Geophysical Society Meeting, Nice (France), 1998.
Dillisse, I., S. Goes, R. Govers, and P. Vacher, Imaging upper mantle temperature and composition using seismic velocities: A test for the Mendocino triple junction area., Abstract en Programmaboek, 4e Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, Veldhoven (Netherlands), 1998.
Furlong, K.P., and R. Govers, Geodynamics of the Mendocino Triple Junction: Implications for Crustal Structure and Mantle Fabric, EOS Trans. AGU, 103, F859, Fall Meeting Suppl., San Francisco (U.S.A.), 1998.
Goes, S., R. Govers, P. Vacher, H. Bijwaard, W. Spakman, H. Marquering, R. Snieder, and I. Dillisse, Shallow Mantle Temperatures Under Europe From P and S Wave Tomography, EOS Trans. AGU, 103, F664, Fall Meeting Suppl., San Francisco (U.S.A.), 1998.
Govers, R., Numerical simulations of transpression, Annales Geophysicae Supplement, 16(I), C45, European Geophysical Society Meeting, Nice (France), 1998.
Govers, R., Crustal thickening and deformation resulting from transpression: Results from numerical simulations, Abstract en Programmaboek, 4e Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, Veldhoven (Netherlands), 1998.
Govers, R., Lithosphere Scale Geodynamic Simulations of Transpression, EOS Trans. AGU, 103*, F903, Fall Meeting Suppl., San Francisco (U.S.A.), 1998.
Kreemer, C., S. Goes, R. Govers, and W. Holt, Active deformation of eastern Indonesia and the Philippines inferred from seismicity and geodetic data, Annales Geophysicae Supplement, 16(I), C46, European Geophysical Society Meeting, Nice (France), 1998.
van Wijk, J.W., and R. Govers, 3-D thermal modeling of the southern Californian upper mantle; the tectonic history of microplates, Abstract en Programmaboek, 4e Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, Veldhoven (Netherlands), 1998.
van Wijk, J.W., and R. Govers, 3-D thermal modeling of the southern Californian upper mantle; the tectonic history of microplates, Annales Geophysicae Supplement, 16(I), C50, European Geophysical Society Meeting, Nice (France), 1998.

1997

Govers, R., K.P. Furlong, and J. van Wijk, Subduction of Ridges and Very Young Lithosphere: Modeling Derived Constraints on its Occurrence During the Cenozoic in the Northeast Pacific, Abstracts book, AGU Chapman conference on the history and dynamics of global plate motions, Marshall, California, June 17-22, 1997.
Kreemer, C., R. Govers, S. Goes, and B. Holt, Seismic Strain and Displacements in South-East Indonesia, EOS Trans. AGU, 78, 719, Fall Meeting Suppl., San Francisco (U.S.A.), 1997.

1996

Buiter, S.J.H., M.J. van der Meulen, R. Govers, M.J.R. Wortel, and J.E. Meulenkamp, The role of subduction in foreland basin evolution: The Apennines, Annales Geophysicae Supplement, 14(1), 80, The Hague (Netherlands), 1996.
Goes, S., R. Govers, S. Schwartz, and K. Furlong, Thermal modeling and seismicity of the Mendocino Triple Junction, Annales Geophysicae Supplement, 14(1), 51, The Hague (Netherlands), 1996.
Govers, R., K.P. Furlong, and K.M.M. Rohr, Oceanic plate fragmentation resulting from attempted subduction of ridges: the Explorer Plate, Abstract en Programmaboek, #76, 3e Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, Veldhoven (Netherlands), 1996.
Govers, R., K.P. Furlong, and K.M.M. Rohr, Oceanic plate fragmentation resulting from subduction of ridges: The Explorer Plate, Annales Geophysicae Supplement, 14(1), 107, The Hague (Netherlands), 1996.
Passier, M.L., R. Snieder, and R. Govers, Intermediate and small-scale upper mantle structure, Abstracts book, 58, Conference on Mathematical Geophysics, Santa Fe (New Mexico, U.S.A.), 1996.
Prims, J., K.P. Furlong, R. Govers, and K.M.M. Rohr, 3d flexural modeling in a transpressional regime: The Queen Charlotte Fault system in western Canada, Annales Geophysicae Supplement, 14(1), 109, The Hague (Netherlands), 1996.

1995

Goes, S., S. Schwartz, R. Govers, and K.P. Furlong, Thermal modeling and seismicity of the Mendocino Triple Junction, EOS Trans. AGU, 76(46), F627, Fall Meeting Suppl., San Francisco (U.S.A.), 1995.
Govers, R., and D. van der Wal, Imprints in peridotites of mantle processes in the western Mediterranean, Terra abstracts, 121, EUG VIII, Strasbourg (France), 1995.
Govers, R., and D. van der Wal, Mantle processes of the western Mediterranean recorded in the Ronda peridotite, IUGG XXI, Boulder, Colorado (U.S.A.), 1995.
Govers, R., K.P. Furlong, and K.M.M. Rohr, Dynamic evolution of the Explorer Plate, Annales Geophysicae Supplement, 13(1), 17, Hamburg (Germany), 1995.
Govers, R., K.P. Furlong, and K.M.M. Rohr, Dynamics of a subduction-spreading-transform triple junction: the Explorer Plate, GAC/MAC Abstracts, 20, A-38, Victoria, B.C. (Canada), 1995.
Govers, R., K.P. Furlong, and K.M.M. Rohr, The Explorer Plate as a consequence of the evolution of a subduction-spreading-transform triple junction, IUGG XXI Abstracts volume B, 334, Boulder, Colorado (U.S.A.), 1995.
Meijer, P.T., R. Govers, and M.J.R. Wortel, Stress field of the South American plate, Terra abstracts, 41, EUG VIII, Strasbourg (France), 1995.
Meijer, P.Th., R. Govers, and M.J.R. Wortel, Forces controlling the current state of stress in the Andes, EOS Trans. AGU, 76(46), F373, Fall Meeting Suppl., San Francisco (U.S.A.), 1995.

1994

Govers, R., and D. van der Wal, Implications of grain growth observations for the evolution of the Western Mediterranean upper mantle, EOS Trans. AGU, 75(44), 648-649, Fall Meeting Suppl., San Francisco (U.S.A.), 1994.
Govers, R., and M.J.R. Wortel, Relation of the uplift of rift flanks to the mechanical properties of continental lithosphere during extension, EOS Trans. AGU, 75 (16), 333, Spring Meeting Suppl., Baltimore, Maryland (U.S.A.), 1994.
Govers, R., and M.J.R. Wortel, Physical conditions leading to symmetric or asymmetric continental extension; results from finite element modeling, Terra Nostra, 117, 1994.
Meijer, P.Th., M.J.R. Wortel, and R. Govers, Tectonic force distribution and stress field of the South American Plate, C15 , Annales Geophysicae Supplement, Grenoble (France), 1994.

1993

Govers, R., and M.J.R. Wortel, Extension of continental lithosphere and initiation of lithosphere-scale faults, Terra abstracts, 5, 237, EUG VII, Strasbourg (France), 1993.
Govers, R., and M.J.R. Wortel, Causes for Asymmetric extension and initiation of lithosphere-scale faults, EOS Trans. AGU, 74(43), 614, Fall Meeting Suppl., San Francisco (U.S.A.), 1993.

1992

Govers, R., Initiation of detachment faults in lithospheric extension: results from dynamic modeling, Abstract en Programmaboek, 8, 1e Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, Veldhoven (Netherlands), 1992.
Govers, R., and M.J.R. Wortel, Initiation of lithosphere-scale faults: extension of stable continental lithosphere, EOS Trans. AGU, 73(43), 561, Fall Meeting Suppl., San Francisco (U.S.A.), 1992.

1991

Govers, R., Intraplate stress and strain rate as a function of depth and time, Terra Abstracts, 3, 263, EUG VI, Strasbourg (France), 1991.
Wortel, M.J.R., M.J.N. Remkes, R. Govers, and S.A.P.L. Cloetingh, Dynamics of the lithosphere and the intraplate stress field, Program and Abstracts volume, 5, Royal Society Discussion Meeting on "Origin and distribution of tectonic stress in the lithosphere", London, London (U.K.), 1991.

1990

Wortel, M.J.R., M.J.N. Remkes, R. Govers, and S.A.P.L. Cloetingh, Dynamics, stress field and seismicity of oceanic lithosphere, Program and abstracts volume, Symposium "Evolution of the oceanic lithosphere", Adler (USSR), 1990.

1989

Govers, R., R. Wortel, and S. Cloetingh, A method for estimating average differential stresses from focal depths, Annales Geophysicae Supplement, 10, European Geophysical Society Meeting, Barcelona (Spain), 1989.
Wortel, R., R. Govers, S. Cloetingh, and C. Stein, Stress level in the Indian plate: new constraints from the depth distribution of oceanic intraplate earthquakes, Abstract Volume 28th IGC Washington, part 3, 382-383, 28th International Geological Conference, Washington D.C., 1989.

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