Marten enjoys the application of knowledge in practice, bringing clarity in complex matters and creation of realistic steps to achieve ambitions. He is a process facilitator with extensive project management experience. He enjoys working in a multi disciplinary environment and building bridges.
He is passionate about the application of knowledge, data and technology to enable caring for nature. He has experience with data and information processes, standardisation and visualisation. And how these can lead to user-friendly applications, communication products and insights for decision making in policy and society. He co-founded the honeybee data platform 'BEEP' for citizen science research on bee health.
Marten is a bioprocess engineer, learning about the wonders of biodiversity every day. He has worked in industry and in the development aid sector including a social enterprise.
Keywords
Biodiversity, Pollinators, Pollinator ecology, Collaboration, Theory of change, Technology, Data, Tools, Planning and strategy
Projects
Marten works on the following projects and programmes:
- Dutch National Dashboard on Biodiversity (Google translate version here with, multiple translations available)
- Biodiversity management model with Alliander and Impact Institute
- Dutch collective nature inclusieve: monitoring team
- Deltaplan biodiversity restoration: monitoring team
- International pollinator strategies with Promote Pollinators
- Knowledge impulse on pollinators, lead by Wageningen University and Research
- Biodiversity planning tool, lead by RIVM
- and:
Biodiversity Opportunity Map Green Nets
KANO Opportunity analysis for nature development
Knowledge Naturally! Green knowledge made useful
Dutch nature data analysis
National Bee Strategy
Flowering Arches
