2019-2024

PhD project:
“Towards reconciling geodynamic models with kinematic reconstructions of slab sinking and plate motion” (Vici project ‘TRIGGER’) – supervised by Douwe van Hinsbergen, Cedric Thieulot, Wim Spakman

MSc project: “Paleolatitudinal evolution of the Farallon plate based on paleomagnetic analyses of the Jurassic-Cretaceous volcano-sedimentary record of western Costa Rica”

Supervisors: Lydian Boschman, Douwe van Hinsbergen

Publications

1. van der Wiel, E.**, Thieulot, C., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2024, Quantifying mantle mixing through configurational entropy, Solid Earth 15, 861–875
2. van der Wiel, E.**, Pokorný, J., Čížková, H., Spakman W., van den Berg, A.P., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2024, Slab buckling driving rapid oscillations in Indian plate motion rate, Communications Earth and Environment 5, 316
3. van der Wiel, E.**, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Thieulot, C., and Spakman, W., 2024, Linking rates of slab sinking to long-term lower mantle flow and mixing, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 625, 118471
4. Vaes, B.**, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., van de Lagemaat, S.H.A.**, van der Wiel, E.**, Lom, N.*, Advokaat, E.L., Boschman, L.M., Gallo, L.C., Greve, A., Guilmette, C., Li, S., Lippert, P.C., Montheil, L.**, Qayyum, A.*, and Langereis, C.G., 2023, A global apparent polar wander path since 320 Ma calculated from site-level paleomagnetic data, Earth-Science Reviews 245, 104547
5. Boschman, L.M.**, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Langereis, C.G., Flores, K.E., Kamp, P.J.J., Kimbrough, D.L., Ueda, H., van de Lagemaat, S.H.A.**, van der Wiel, E.**, Spakman, W., 2021, Reconstructing lost plates of the Panthalassa Ocean through paleomagnetic data from circum-Pacific accretionary orogens, American Journal of Science 321, 907-954
6. Boschman, L.M.**, van der Wiel, E.***, Flores, K., Langereis, C.G., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2019, The Caribbean and Farallon plates connected: constraints from stratigraphy and paleomagnetism of the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, Journal of Geophysical Research 124, 6243–6266

Outreach

1. Traveling Geologist (Canada) – Paleomagnetic fieldwork in Switzerland with Dieke Gerritsen
2. Traveling Geologist – Paleomagnetism of Costa Rican Pensinsulas with Erik van der Wiel

Fieldwork

1. Switzerland 2021
2. Costa Rica 2016