Maarten Kleinhans
Physical Geography
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
physical geographer Maarten Kleinhans, Professor of Process sedimentology of river-dominated systems in the Faculty of Geosciences does. Remarkably, he usually manages to keep his feet dry. In his lab, he and his research group recreate meandering rivers, in order to study effects of natural environmental factors as well as human intervention on the pattern and course of rivers. The new insights gained from the experiments form the basis for better computer simulations. The resulting models predict the present and future of natural and affected rivers.
Research Interest
geomorphology of rivers
Publications
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De Haas, T., Hauber, E., Conway, S.J., Van Steijn, H., Johnsson, A. & Kleinhans, M.G. (23.06.2015). Earth-like aqueous debris-flow activity on Mars at high orbital obliquity in the last million years. Nature Communications, 6.
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Bolla Pittaluga, Michele, Coco, Giovanni & Kleinhans, Maarten G. (2015). A unified framework for stability of channel bifurcations in gravel and sand fluvial systems. Geophysical Research Letters, 42, (pp. 7521–7536).
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van de Lageweg, W.I., Schuurman, F., Cohen, K.M., van Dijk, W. M., Shimizu, Y. & Kleinhans, M.G. (2016). Preservation of meandering river channels in uniformly aggrading channel belts. Sedimentology, 63 (3), (pp. 586-608) (23 p.).
