VAES BRAM
Biografia
Bram works as a full-time researcher in the Coupled Earth Systems research group led by Prof. Pietro Sternai. His research focuses on the interactions between plate tectonics and the Earth's climate and falls under the international research project MATRICs: MAgmatic TRIggering of Cenozoic Climate Changes. The main objective of the project is to quantify how changes in magmatic CO2 emissions have influenced the Earth's climate during the last 66 million years. To this end, Bram uses numerical geodynamic and climate carbon cycle models, integrating geological and paleoclimate records of magmatism and climate changes in the geological past.
Bram obtained his PhD (with honors) in June 2023 at Utrecht University. During his PhD, he developed a new approach to using paleomagnetism for tectonic and paleogeographic applications. The main result of his project is a new paleomagnetic reference frame, which - for the first time - incorporated temporal and spatial uncertainties.
Pubblicazioni
Vaes, B., Sternai, P., Licht, A., Maffre, P., Chalk, T., Pineau, E., et al. (2025). The impact of paleogeographic boundary conditions on early Cenozoic climate simulations. In Abstract EGU25 [10.5194/egusphere-egu25-16077]. Dettaglio
Vaes, B., van Hinsbergen, D. (2025). Reconstructing paleogeography using site-level apparent polar wander paths. In Abstract EGU25 [10.5194/egusphere-egu25-16299]. Dettaglio
Vaes, B., van Hinsbergen, D. (2025). Slow True Polar Wander Around Varying Equatorial Axes Since 320 Ma. AGU ADVANCES, 6(2) [10.1029/2024av001515]. Dettaglio
Vaes, B., van Hinsbergen, D., Paridaens, J. (2024). APWP-online.org: a Global Reference Database and Open-Source Tools for Calculating Apparent Polar Wander Paths and Relative Paleomagnetic Displacements. TEKTONIKA, 2(1), 174-189 [10.55575/tektonika2024.2.1.44]. Dettaglio
Vaes, B., van Hinsbergen, D., van de Lagemaat, S., van der Wiel, E., Lom, N., Advokaat, E., et al. (2023). A global apparent polar wander path for the last 320 Ma calculated from site-level paleomagnetic data. EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS, 245(October 2023) [10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104547]. Dettaglio