Maarten Wynants

12/2021- Current: 

PostDoctoral researcher in Water Quality Modelling at the Department of Soil and Environment, SLU. 

• Understanding of the dynamics and pathways of nutrient and sediment transport in catchments.
• Disentangle the effects of land use and climatic variability as drivers of nutrient and sediment concentrations in streams.
• Evaluate methods and pinpoint areas for mitagative actions to improve water quality. 
• Model nutrient and sediment transport under future climate and land use scenarios, with emphasis on extreme events.

• Sediment and nutrient flux modelling
• Land cover reconstruction
• Sediment source tracing (geochemical and biochemical)
• Sediment dating and sedimentation reconstruction (Fallout radionuclides)
• Water- and soil quality

• 08/2020 – 11/2021: Environmental Consultant, RSK Benelux. Monitoring soil & water quality following Flemish Environmental Regulations. 
• 02/2020 - 07/2020: PostDoctoral researcher, University of Plymouth. -          SoilSCAN project: Soils, Science and Community Action. Evaluating the potential of a handheld soil scanner as a citizen science tool for soil quality assessment in rural Tanzanian communities.
• 01/2016 - 01/2020: PhD researcher / Research Assistant, University of Plymouth. Assessing the dynamics of soil erosion and sediment transport under increasing land use pressures in East African Rift Catchments. 
• 09/2014 - 12/2015: Research assistant, KULeuven. Contribution to a Decision Support System for the sustainable development of the Lake Manyara basin, Tanzania: environmental water requirements of a lake with high socio-economic importance.

02/2020 – 12/2021: Co-supervision of PhD student Aloyce Amasi, hosted at NM-AIST, Tanzania. Investigation of sediment source and transport dynamics in the Nymba Ya Mungu Reservoir, Tanzania.

• Taylor, A., Wynants, M., Munishi, L., Kelly, C., Mtei, K., Mkilema, F., Ndakidemi, P., Nasseri, M., Kalnins, A., Patrick, A., Gilvear, D. & Blake, W. 2021. Building Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Through Soil Organic Carbon Restoration in Sub-Saharan Rural Communities: Challenges and Opportunities. Sustainability 13 (19), 10966. DOI
• Wynants, M., Patrick, A., Munishi, L., Mtei, K., Bodé, S., Taylor, A., Millward, G., Roberts, N., Gilvear, D., Ndakidemi, P., Boeckx, P. & Blake, W.H. 2021. Soil erosion and sediment transport in Tanzania: Part II‐sedimentological evidence of phased land degradation. Earth Surf. Proc. Land. DOI
• Wynants, M., Munishi, L., Mtei, K., Bodé, S., Patrick, A., Taylor, A., Gilvear, D., Ndakidemi, P., Blake, W.H. & Boeckx, P. 2021. Soil erosion and sediment transport in Tanzania: Part I‐sediment source tracing in three neighbouring river catchments. Earth Surf. Proc. Land. DOI

• Amasi, A.I.M., Wynants, M., Kawala, R.A., Sawe, S.F., Blake, W.H. & Mtei, K.M. 2021. Evaluating Soil Carbon as a Proxy for Erosion Risk in the Spatio-temporal Complex Hydropower Catchment in Upper Pangani, Northern Tanzania. Earth 2021, 2(3), 485-514. DOI

• Blake, W.H., Kelly, C., Wynants, M., Patrick, A., Lewin, S., Lawson, J., Nasolwa, E., Page, A., Nasseri, M., Marks, C., Gilvear, D., Mtei, K., Munishi, L. & Ndakidemi, P. Integrating land-water-people connectivity concept across disciplines for co-design of soil erosion solutions. Land Degradation and Development 2020: 3415-3430.  DOI

• Wynants, M., Millward, G., Patrick, A., Taylor, A.,  Munishi, L.,  Mtei, K.,  Brendonck, L.,  Gilvear, D.,  Boeckx, P.,  Ndakidemi, P. &  Blake, W. H. 2020. Determining tributary sources of increased sedimentation in East-African Rift Valley Lakes.  Sci. Total Environ. 717: 137266. DOI
• Wynants, M., Kelly, C., Mtei, K., Munishi, L.,  Patrick, A.,  Rabinovich, A.,  Nasseri, M.,  Gilvear, D.,  Roberts, N.,  Boeckx, P.,  Wilson, G.,  Blake, W. H. & Ndakidemi, P. 2019. Drivers of increased soil erosion in East-Africa’s agro-pastoral systems: changing interactions between the social, economic and natural domains. Reg. Environ. Change 19: 1909-1921. DOI
• Blake, W.H., Rabinovich, A., Wynants, M., Kelly, C.,  Nasseri, M., Ngondya, I., Patrick, A., Mtei, K., Munishi, L., Boeckx, P., Navas, A., Smith, H. G., Gilvear, D., Wilson, G.,  Roberts, N. & Ndakidemi, P. 2018. Soil erosion in East Africa: an interdisciplinary approach to realising pastoral land management change. Environ. Res. Lett. 13(12): 124014. DOI
• Wynants, M., Solomon, H., Ndakidemi, P. & Blake, W. H. 2018. Pinpointing areas of increased soil erosion risk following land cover change in the Lake Manyara catchment, Tanzania. Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinf. 71: 1-8. DOI

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