Episode 7 - Maarten Van Daele

The Into the Core team returns once again to the IPA-IAL conference in Aix-les-Bains for this seventh episode, where we sit down with Maarten Van Daele.

In this episode, we explore how sediments can be key to understanding past events such as paleotsunamis and paleoearthquakes. We also talk about Maarten’s experience during the ICDP Lake Challa drilling campaign and share some memorable field stories — including the time he and his team lost the platform’s floats while drilling a lake in Chile.

Curious to know how they solved it? Join us to find out.

Maarten Van Daele is an associate professor at Ghent University in Belgium, specializing in sedimentology, geohazards, and limnogeology. His research focuses on lake and marine sediment archives, particularly turbidites as records of past earthquakes, tsunamis, and other extreme events. He is involved in ICDP projects such as DeepCHALLA. In addition, he has worked on unique sites like Iceberg Lake in Alaska, which drained in 1999 through an outburst flood, exposing sedimentary deposits that allow the study of historical earthquakes and other past events in outcrops.

Host: Rodrigo Martínez-Abarca
Guest: Maarten Van Daele
Edition: Romina Achaga

Into the Core is supported by the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) and is an initiative of the Early Career Researchers Network. Original idea by Marta Marchegiano.

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