Dr Douwe van der Meer
Douwe van der Meer is geological advisor to HHGS and has been a member since 2016.
Douwe is a geophysicist by background and a subject matter expert in plate tectonic processes and tectono-stratigraphic evolution of basins. Following his graduation as MSc. at the tectonophysics group of Utrecht University, Netherlands in 2002, he continued research on mantle structure and plate tectonic reconstructions. After a sabbatical at the geodynamics group at the Norwegian Geological Survey in Trondheim in 2009, publications followed on global subduction and causal effects on earth’s climate and sea level, culminating in a PhD. cum laude in 2017. Over the past 20+ years he has worked in various roles in the energy industry, based in the Netherlands, U.K. and U.S.A. As an explorationist and Earth system-enthusiast his work and research has covered all continents and time-spans from the Archean to Cenozoic. Currently he is Senior Manager for New Ventures at CNOOC International in London and guest researcher at Utrecht University. In his spare time he trains for triathlons.
Douwe has given several lectures to the Society:
14 November 2018
"Atlas of the Underworld: frontier exploration of the mantle to constrain palaeogeography & biogeography"
6 February 2023
"Earth’s changing temperature and sea level over the past 540 million years leading to novel insights for sequence-stratigraphy"
11 February 2026
"A billion years of sea level change due to changes in plate tectonics and ice caps”
Watch on YouTube: part 1, part 2, part 3,
Douwe van der Meer is geological advisor to HHGS and has been a member since 2016.
Douwe is a geophysicist by background and a subject matter expert in plate tectonic processes and tectono-stratigraphic evolution of basins. Following his graduation as MSc. at the tectonophysics group of Utrecht University, Netherlands in 2002, he continued research on mantle structure and plate tectonic reconstructions. After a sabbatical at the geodynamics group at the Norwegian Geological Survey in Trondheim in 2009, publications followed on global subduction and causal effects on earth’s climate and sea level, culminating in a PhD. cum laude in 2017. Over the past 20+ years he has worked in various roles in the energy industry, based in the Netherlands, U.K. and U.S.A. As an explorationist and Earth system-enthusiast his work and research has covered all continents and time-spans from the Archean to Cenozoic. Currently he is Senior Manager for New Ventures at CNOOC International in London and guest researcher at Utrecht University. In his spare time he trains for triathlons.
Douwe has given several lectures to the Society:
14 November 2018
"Atlas of the Underworld: frontier exploration of the mantle to constrain palaeogeography & biogeography"
6 February 2023
"Earth’s changing temperature and sea level over the past 540 million years leading to novel insights for sequence-stratigraphy"
11 February 2026
"A billion years of sea level change due to changes in plate tectonics and ice caps”
Watch on YouTube: part 1, part 2, part 3,
Douwe sits on the HHGS committee and runs the Society's Facebook page: