Dr. Maarten A. Prins

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Phone: +31 (0)20 5983635; Fax +31 (0)20 5989941; Room WN-F454

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I am a sedimentologist with research focus on the impact of Late Quaternary climate changes on various sedimentary systems. Most attention is directed towards marine sedimentary systems (turbidite-, aeolian-, hemipelagic- and glacio-marine systems), but also includes selected terrestrial sedimentary systems (loess-paleosol sequences, lacustrine systems). I have been working in various regions, including the Arabian Sea, the North Atlantic, Greenland, Svalbard and China. The main interest is the inversion ('end-member modelling') of sediment grain-size distribution data and its application to paleoclimatology and paleoceanography.