SG - Reflection by Martine van der Ploeg
21:15 to 21:30, 4 June - Impulse
About Martine van der Ploeg
Martine van der Ploeg is chair and professor of the Hydrology and Environmental Hydraulics group at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. The Hydrology and Environmental Hydraulics group aims to advance fundamental understanding and prediction of hydrological processes in river basins, aquifers, and deltas in support of water management. In her own research and education, Martine wants to understand how global warming, and related, the intensification of the water cycle impacts the various processes in the soil, including the carbon and nutrient cycle. While soil water represents only 0.05% of the total amount of fresh water, all terrestrial life depends on it. A change in wetting and drying cycles can have lasting impact on the amount of water soil can store. To study these interactions Martine uses a combination of lab and field studies, remote sensing data and computational models, and she collaborates with various other fields, such as soil biology, biochemistry, and machine learning.
