Jil van Etten

GM Geomorphology

The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Jil van Etten for the poster/PICO entitled:

Periglacial puzzles: Unravelling environmental controls on solifluction lobe morphometry (van Etten, J.S.; Eichel, J.; Draebing, D.)

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Jil van Etten is a first-year PhD student at Utrecht University (UU), The Netherlands. Under supervision of Dr. Tjalling de Haas, Dr. Jana Eichel and Prof. Dr. Maarten Kleinhans, she investigates the interaction between forests and debris flow runout. Her studies include a wide range of  research methodologies including fieldwork, laboratory experiments, remote sensing and modelling. 

The research Jil presented at EGU25 was based on her master thesis that she conducted under supervision of Dr. Daniel Draebing and Dr. Jana Eichel (UU). In this research she determined the environmental controls on solifluction lobe geometry in the Turtmann Valley in the Swiss Alps, and demonstrated how lobe geometry and controlling factors in this study area differ from lobes in previous (Arctic) studies. Jil’s findings shows that alpine solifluction lobes deserve separate attention, as their difference in morphometry and environmental controls could, for example, indicate a different response to climate change as well.