Een herstelde beek is geen slingerend kanaal : Herziene uitgave Handboek Geomorfologisch Beekherstel

De afgelopen decennia hebben waterschappen een groot aantal beekherstelprojecten uitgevoerd. De resultaten worden de laatste jaren steeds beter, door de kennis en inzichten dievanuit onderzoek hun weg vinden naar de praktijk. Onder meer via het door STOWA uitgegeven‘beekfeuilleton’: drie praktische handboeken voor beekherstel. Onlangs verscheen een herziene uitgave van deel 1, Het Handboek Geomorfologisch Beekherstel. Maar wat is het eigenlijk:geomorfologie

NCR days 2017, Book of abstracts : February 1-3, 2017 Wageningen University & Research

The Netherlands Centre for River Studies (NCR), established in 1998, is a collaboration of eight Dutch research institutes with the goal to promote co-operation between scientific institutes in The Netherlands where river research is carried out. Members of the NCR gather during the yearly NCR days, a conference organized in rotation by the NCR member institutes. In 2016 it was decided to change the season in which the NCR Days take place from autumn to winter. This explains why 2016 was a year without NCR days. The first edition in the new winter format is organized by Wageningen University & Research, as a joint effort of the Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group

The landscape setting of bog bodies: Interdisciplinary research into the site location of Yde Girl, The Netherlands

Past studies of archaeological bog finds, such as bog bodies, wooden trackways and a wide variety of other materials, are characterized by a strong focus on material culture. Their original environmental and cultural context has received far less attention. This paper centres on the original landscape setting of bog bodies. Interdisciplinary reconstructions of the physical and cultural landscape at the time of deposition can lead to significant new and more detailed insights into the context and meaning of this remarkable phenomenon. We aim to show the value of such interdisciplinary research by reconstructing the original physical and cultural landscape setting of the most iconic bog body of The Netherlands: Yde Girl. This approximately 16-year-old girl was killed about 2000 years ago and deposited in a bog south of the modern-day village of Yde (province of Drenthe). Our interdisciplinary research team used a combination of research methods from physical geography, geomorphology, palynology and archaeology to analyse both the site itself and its wider environment. This kind of integrated, detailed landscape research on bog bodies has hardly been done yet. We expect that our research design, methodology and results may also be applied in future research of other bog bodies. Furthermore, they may inspire research on other types of archaeological find categories from peatlands

Next steps in palaeogeographic mapping of the Lower Meuse Valley to unravel tectonic and climate forcing

In the Netherlands the Meuse terrace sequence has been studied in detail since the 1960ies. The youngest, lowest levels of terraces are shown to hold remnants of glacial-stage braided plains from the Weichselian Late Pleniglacial and Younger Dryas stadials, but also of meandering channel belts of Allerød interstadial and Holocene interglacial stages. Whereas geological-geomorphological reconstructions, in principle, allow to identify interaction between river morphology and forcing factors such as climate change and tectonics, and to explore and explain temporal and spatial changes herein. In practice, however, the many studies in this area so-far each covered restricted parts of the Meuse valley and/or restricted time periods. A truly integrated reconstruction of Lower Meuse geomorphological activity since the Weichselian Last Glacial Maximum, is lacking. Because a river’s response to the same external forcing may vary along the river system, with hindsight, some regional differences along the river Meuse may have been insufficiently considered in the maps produced so far. In addition, a wealth of new data, mainly from archaeological exploration, has become available in the past years. For unravelling of tectonic (active and passive) from climatic controls in the Meuse valley an updated, consistent and detailed palaeogeographical reconstruction is needed, which this study aims at

Next steps in palaeogeographic mapping of the Lower Meuse Valley to unravel tectonic and climate forcing

In the Netherlands the Meuse terrace sequence has been studied in detail since the 1960ies. The youngest, lowest levels of terraces are shown to hold remnants of glacial-stage braided plains from the Weichselian Late Pleniglacial and Younger Dryas stadials, but also of meandering channel belts of Allerød interstadial and Holocene interglacial stages. Whereas geological-geomorphological reconstructions, in principle, allow to identify interaction between river morphology and forcing factors such as climate change and tectonics, and to explore and explain temporal and spatial changes herein. In practice, however, the many studies in this area so-far each covered restricted parts of the Meuse valley and/or restricted time periods. A truly integrated reconstruction of Lower Meuse geomorphological activity since the Weichselian Last Glacial Maximum, is lacking. Because a river’s response to the same external forcing may vary along the river system, with hindsight, some regional differences along the river Meuse may have been insufficiently considered in the maps produced so far. In addition, a wealth of new data, mainly from archaeological exploration, has become available in the past years. For unravelling of tectonic (active and passive) from climatic controls in the Meuse valley an updated, consistent and detailed palaeogeographical reconstruction is needed, which this study aims at