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Colina Alonso, A. (author)The world’s coasts and deltas offer a multitude of valuable ecosystem services, providing safety against flooding and economic benefits. Many of these systems are, however, under pressure by climate change and increasing human activities. Protecting these systems and preservation of their multiple functions requires a thorough understanding of...doctoral thesis 2024
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Colina Alonso, A. (author), van Maren, D.S. (author), Oost, Albert Peter (author), Esselink, Peter (author), Lepper, Robert (author), Kösters, Frank (author), Bartholdy, Jesper (author), Bijleveld, Allert (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author)The world’s coasts and deltas are progressively threatened by climate change and human activities. The degree at which coastlines can adapt to these changes strongly depends on the sediment availability. The availability of muddy sediments is however poorly known. This study aims at developing a mud budget for the world’s largest system of...journal article 2024
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Cipriani, L. (author)Lagoons, wetlands, islands, and their inland areas struggle between two opposing forces, permanence, and transformation.<br/>Coastal lagoons are constantly evolving dynamic natural ecosystems, shaped over the centuries by natural phenomena and ongoing anthropic interventions. The war between man and nature is waged on various fronts: geo...abstract 2023
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van Kouwen, Niels C. (author), Ton, A.M. (author), Vos, S.E. (author), Vijverberg, Thomas (author), Reniers, A.J.H.M. (author), Aarninkhof, S.G.J. (author)Many sand spits are morphodynamically complex landforms, that are either analysed with complex and expensive computational models or at a conceptual level. Therefore, most case studies on spits in different environments are descriptive. A novel method based on the use of polar coordinates was devised to quantitatively analyse spit...journal article 2023
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Pearson, S.G. (author)In an era of rising seas and other challenges posed by climate change, coastal regions like the Netherlands are facing ever graver threats. Strategic sand nourishments could mitigate the threat of coastal erosion and sea level rise on barrier island coasts while limiting ecological impacts. However, insufficient knowledge of sediment transport...doctoral thesis 2022
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Elias, Edwin P.L. (author), Pearson, S.G. (author), van der Spek, A.J.F. (author), Pluis, Stefan (author)For successful and sustainable management of barrier islands, a thorough understanding of the ebb-tidal delta dynamics and interactions with the adjacent shorelines are of the utmost importance. Such understanding requires detailed observations and interpretations of the morphodynamics of smaller-scale features such as the individual channels...journal article 2022
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Vreugdenhil, H.S.I. (author), Janssen, Stephanie (author), Hermans, L.M. (author), Slinger, J (author)The increasingly active role of stakeholders in the development of innovative nature-based solutions calls for appropriate instruments to support and realise added value from their involvement. In this paper we apply a newly developed instrument “Cooperation for Added Value” (Co-Add) to a study area on the Dutch coast. The instrument draws on...journal article 2022
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Huismans, Y. (author), van der Spek, A.J.F. (author), Lodder, Q.J. (author), Zijlstra, Robert (author), Elias, Edwin (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author)The Wadden Sea is a unique intertidal wetland area, forming an important hub for migratory water birds. A feared effect of accelerated sea-level rise (SLR) is the gradual loss or even disappearance of the ecologically valuable intertidal flats. To date, the effect of SLR on the time-evolution of the intertidal areas in the Dutch Wadden Sea...journal article 2022
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Lodder, Q.J. (author), Huismans, Y. (author), Elias, Edwin (author), de Looff, Harry (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author)The sediment exchange between the Dutch Wadden Sea and the North Sea coastal zone is of key importance to Dutch coastal management. Net sediment import from the coastal zone to the Wadden Sea results in coastal erosion which needs to be compensated through nourishments. At the same time net sediment import is the source of sediment for the...journal article 2022
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Colina Alonso, A. (author), van Maren, D.S. (author), Herman, P.M.J. (author), van Weerdenburg, R.J.A. (author), Huismans, Y. (author), Holthuijsen, S. J. (author), Govers, L. L. (author), Bijleveld, A. I. (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author)The sediment composition of the seabed governs its mobility, hence determining sediment transport and morphological evolution of estuaries and tidal basins. Bed sediments often consist of mixtures of sand and mud, with spatial gradients in the sand/mud content. This study aims at increasing the understanding of processes driving the sediment...journal article 2022
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Colina Alonso, A. (author), van Maren, D.S. (author), Elias, E. P.L. (author), Holthuijsen, S. J. (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author)Human interventions and climate change can heavily influence the large-scale morphological development of tidal basins. This has implications on sediment management strategies, as well as ecological and recreational purposes. Examples of heavily impacted tidal basins are those in the Western Dutch Wadden Sea. The closure of a large sub-basin...journal article 2021
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van Loon-Steensma, J.M. (author), Goldsworthy, Christopher (author)In this paper, we introduce and test a framework to qualitatively assess the environmental impact of climate adaptation innovations with the ambition to facilitate the implementation of these adaptations. The framework was designed to enable continuous environmentally conscious benchmarking based on three environmental performance indicators:...journal article 2021
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van Weerdenburg, R.J.A. (author), Pearson, S.G. (author), van Prooijen, Bram (author), Laan, Stendert (author), Elias, Edwin (author), Tonnon, Pieter Koen (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author)Multiple tidal inlet systems like the Wadden Sea have long been considered as separated basins, bordered by so-called tidal divides. Recently, it was however shown that fluxes of water and sediment occur over the borders of these basins, especially during wind events. In this paper, the wind-driven fluxes over these borders and the residual...journal article 2021
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Gaida, T.C. (author), van Dijk, T.A.G.P. (author), Snellen, M. (author), Vermaas, Tommer (author), Mesdag, Chris (author), Simons, D.G. (author)Natural and man-induced coastal erosion endanger life and environment in coastal areas worldwide. For sedimentary barrier coasts, beach and underwater nourishments are an efficient coastal protection strategy. To optimize nourishments and to understand their impact on the marine environment, monitoring strategies are required. In this study,...journal article 2020
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Lodder, Q.J. (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author), Elias, Edwin P.L. (author), van der Spek, A.J.F. (author), de Looff, Harry (author), Townend, Ian (author)Climate change, and especially the associated acceleration of sea-level rise, forms a serious threat to the Wadden Sea. The Wadden Sea contains the world’s largest coherent intertidal flat area and it is known that these flats can drown when the rate of sea-level rise exceeds a critical limit. As a result, the intertidal flats would then be...journal article 2019
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Elias, Edwin P.L. (author), van der Spek, A.J.F. (author), Pearson, S.G. (author), Cleveringa, Jelmer (author)Ameland inlet is centrally located in the chain of West Frisian Islands (the Netherlands). A globally unique dataset of detailed bathymetric charts starting in the early 19th century, and high-resolution digital data since 1986 allows for detailed investigations of the ebb-tidal delta morphodynamics and sediment bypassing over a wide range of...journal article 2019
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Vermeersen, L.L.A. (author), Baart, F. (author), Cohen, Kim M. (author), Frederikse, T. (author), Kiden, Patrick (author), Kleinherenbrink, M. (author), Riva, R.E.M. (author), Slobbe, D.C. (author), van der Wegen, M. (author)Rising sea levels due to climate change can have severe consequences for coastal populations and ecosystems all around the world. Understanding and projecting sea-level rise is especially important for low-lying countries such as the Netherlands. It is of specific interest for vulnerable ecological and morphodynamic regions, such as the...journal article 2018
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Fokker, Peter A. (author), van Leijen, F.J. (author), Orlic, Bogdan (author), van der Marel, H. (author), Hanssen, R.F. (author)Ground surface dynamics is one of the processes influencing the future of the Wadden Sea area. Vertical land movement, both subsidence and heave, is a direct contributor to changes in the relative sea level. It is defined as the change of height of the Earth's surface with respect to a vertical datum. In the Netherlands, The Normaal Amsterdams...journal article 2018
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Reef, Koen RG (author), Lipari, Giordano (author), Roos, Pieter C. (author), Hulscher, Suzanne J.M.H. (author)We present an idealized network model for storm surges in the Wadden Sea, specifically including a time-dependent wind forcing (wind speed and direction). This extends the classical work by H.A. Lorentz who only considered the equilibrium response to a steady wind forcing. The solutions obtained in the frequency domain for the linearized shallow...journal article 2018
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Wang, Zhengbing (author), Elias, Edwin P.L. (author), van der Spek, A.J.F. (author), Lodder, Q.J. (author)The Wadden Sea is a unique coastal wetland containing an uninterrupted stretch of tidal flats that span a distance of nearly 500 km along the North Sea coast from the Netherlands to Denmark. The development of this system is under pressure of climate change and especially the associated acceleration in sea-level rise (SLR). Sustainable...journal article 2018