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Marten Schoonman

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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.

Marten is passionate about the application of 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.

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. He is beekeeper and co-founded the BEEP foundation which builds open source tools to help beekeepers in taking care of honey bee colonies.

Keywords

Biodiversity, Pollinators, Pollinator ecology, Collaboration, Theory of change, Technology, Data, Tools, Planning and strategy

Projects

A selection of projects Marten is working on

bulb cultivation in connection with the landscape

Samen naar een circulaire Bollenstreek

In this project, entrepreneurs, companies, local authorities and research organizations collaborate to contribute to a profitable, nature-inclusive bulb cultivation.

Biodiversity Opportunity Map Groene Netten

In this project, Naturalis Biodiversity Center is working with Groene Netten on the mapping of opportunities to enhance biodiversity.

DIOPSIS camera v2

DIOPSIS Insect Camera

Better insect counting methods are desperately needed, given the recent observations that insect populations have declined dramatically in recent decades, with all the consequences that this entails in ecosystems. Since the beginning of 2019, EIS…

Nationale Bijenstrategie

As Naturalis Biodiversity Center we are an advising partner of the Dutch National Pollinator Initiative which brings together all of the bee supporting initiatives. For more information see: https://www.bestuivers.nl/nationalebijenstrategie

Eucera longicornis

Bloeibogen

Makes information about bees and their food plants publicly available to improve and enrich wild bee research all over the world.

Groene cirkels

Groene Cirkels

New way of working together with companies and local governments combined in one big network. Working together to achieve a circulair and sustainable economy.