Sediment bypassing at Ameland inlet: And the role of an ebb-tidal delta nourishment

A large part of the Dutch coast, the barrier islands in the Wadden Sea included, would be eroding if the deficit in the total sediment budget was not compensated for through nourishments. Ebb-tidal deltas have an important function within the coastal system that make them of interest for coastal defence as a source and transport path for sand to...

Sediment transport during the execution of the pilot nourishment Ameland Inlet: Development of a tool for analysing bathymetric surveys, applied on the pilot nourishment Ameland inlet

Within the KustGenese 2.0 research project a 5Mm3 pilot nourishment is created on the ebb-tidal delta of Ameland. For this thesis I was involved in the parties; Van den Herik, the contractor who executed the work, Deltares and Rijkswaterstaat. A tool is created to quickly analyse new surveys in combination with the ships deposit data. The tool...