Sustainable long term coastal protection and development based on sand nourishments

The study presents an assessment of sustainable practices for applying sand nourishments aiming long term coastal protection and development. Such concepts are applied in three study cases: Sylt (Germany), S'Abanell (Spain) and Ghanaian coast.

An intrinsic sediment tracing method using natural quartz- and feldspar luminescence

The goal of a sediment tracer is to give quantitative or relative feedback on (coastal) morphological changes or track either sediment or other particles (e.g. contaminations) in sediment dynamic environments. A sediment tracer is a visible or invisible marked (sediment) grain that is artificially injected or is present in-situ. This Master...