The Paper Trail
"The Paper Trail" is a series of interviews with researchers who published in the Netherlands Journal of Geosciences. We ask them to tell us a bit about the background to their work, the relevance to science and society and just how it was to write the piece!
Episodes
18 episodes
Een unieke vondst op het Nederlandse strand
Het is niet ongebruikelijk om op het strand restanten van mammoeten aan te treffen die meer dan tienduizend jaar geleden het gebied waar zich nu de Noordzee bevindt onveilig maakten. Dit gebeurt vooral op plekken waar zandsuppletie heeft plaats...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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23:23
Fault reactivation in hydrocarbon and geothermal reservoirs - differences and similarities
In a recently published paper, Loes Buijze and her co-authors meticulously describe the characteristics of onshore hydrocarbon-bearing and geothermal reservoirs in the Netherlands. Here, Loes talks about the main implications of these findings ...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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38:02
Jogs and steps along fault planes in the Groningen gas field might have helped prevent stronger earthquakes
In this interview, Rick Wentinck talks about a new modelling approach that simulates movement along fault planes in the Groningen gas field. The results are important, because for the first time, it has been shown that fault plane irregularitie...
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Episode 16
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44:06
Turtles and seagrass - the Late Cretaceous seas were much more than just coccoliths
Master student Jelle Heere tells the story about the discovery of a mandible from a Late Cretaceous sea turtle in the Maastrichtian of Limburg. By doing so, Jelle demonstrates that the Chalk seas were much more diverse than some people may thin...
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Episode 15
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27:39
Climate and stratigraphy - Predicting sand by looking at depositional cycles
Climate change is known to affect the sedimentary response of depositional systems. This has particularly been shown for lacustrine and marine environments where there is generally a lack of internal sediment dynamics that can obscure a paleo c...
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Episode 14
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26:46
Scour holes and geology - a close couple
Scour holes are depressions in the riverbed that can pose a significant risk to bank stability. For that reason, a better understanding of the distribution of scour holes in the biggest rivers of the Dutch lowlands is important. In this podcast...
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Episode 13
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30:05
Warm conditions during the Middle Pleistocene in the North Sea Basin
Did you know that the shells you pick up on the beach in the Netherlands are about 5,000 years old? "It is because shells are continuously reworked by waves and transported from one place to the other", says Frank Wesselingh from Naturalis Biod...
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Episode 12
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29:30
Induced seismicity and seismic risk management – a showcase from the Californië geothermal project
In 2018, two doublets producing hot water from Lower Carboniferous limestones in the south of the Netherlands were told to stop operations. Induced seismicity observed in the area was the main driver behind the decision. In this podcast, we tal...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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39:57
How biogenic silica can help reconstruct landscape changes in the Netherlands
Until recently, little work was done using biogenic silica or phytoliths for palaeoecological reconstructions in the Netherlands. This is because most studies rely on pollen or macrofossil remains. However, phytoliths are potentially quite powe...
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Episode 10
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28:48
Decoding the Chalk seas using a paleontological approach
The Maastricht area in the Netherlands is famous for its Upper Cretaceous Chalk deposits. In this podcast, Iris Vancoppenolle tells the story about her research project during which she tried to find evidence of an extinction event in the fossi...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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34:51
Waar heeft het Drusus kanaal gelegen?
Na een jarenlange loopbaan in het onderwijs besloot Jan Verhagen het roer om te gooien en archeologie te gaan bedrijven. Dit mondde al snel uit in een promotieonderzoek bij de VU naar de kanalen die de Romein Drusus volgens historische teksten ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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38:19
What we know and don't know about induced seismicity in the Netherlands
Induced seismicity is a much-discussed phenomenon in the Netherlands, especially with regards to gas production from the Groningen field. However, induced seismic events are not restricted to the north of the Netherlands only, and can have a va...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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32:14
Unravelling the glacial history of eastern England
In this episode we talk to Phil Gibbard about the Pleistocene glacial history of eastern England and how to date the multiple glacial advances that took place over time. Phil has spent a long career working on glaciations across England and fur...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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39:09
How to make sense of a new and unknown fossil found in the Winterswijk quarry in the Netherlands?
In this episode we talk to Stephan Spiekman about a recent fossil find in the famous Winterswijk quarry in the Netherlands. Stephan is a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London and together with Nicole Klein from the University o...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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24:14
Quaternary landscape changes of the island of Norderney - German Wadden Sea
The Quaternary geological history of the Wadden Sea is fascinating, as landscapes changed from warm shallow seas to glacial environments scoured by ice. Robin Schaumann, master student earth sciences at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Univers...
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Episode 4
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35:30
The tale of the oldest recovered sedimentary strata from the Netherlands
Sander Houben and co-author Geert-Jan Vis recently published a paper in which they discuss the age and depositional environment of the oldest sedimentary strata recovered from a couple of wells drilled in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. Lear...
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Episode 3
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27:21
Landschapsveranderingen en de invloed van de mens hierop tijdens het eerste millennium AD in Nederland
Harm Jan Pierik vertelt over zijn onderzoek naar landschapsveranderingen in Nederland gedurende de eerste duizend jaar van onze huidige jaartelling. In deze periode krijgt de mens steeds meer invloed op het landschap door toenemende ontwatering...
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Episode 2
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31:00
Induced seismicity and geothermal energy production; what are the risks for the Netherlands?
Loes Buijze and co-authors recently won the Netherlands Journal of Geosciences publication prize 2019-2020 for a review paper they wrote about induced seismicity related to geothermal energy production. In this podcast, Loes explains the backgr...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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