Future Relics: About Doel's de-polderisation and eventual destruction in the Post-Anthropocene era

Within the main geographical contexts of the North Sea and the Scheldt estuary, the Doelpolder area stands out for the conflictual relationships between human settlements, environmental crisis, and man-made infrastructures, which are all paradigms of the so-called Anthropocene era. The site comprises the village of Doel, the natural reserve of...

Modelling the transport and fate of buoyant macroplastics in coastal waters

As a result of the unabated growth in plastic usage worldwide, their abundance in the marine environment has steadily increased over the last few decades. Nowadays, plastic litter is observed across all oceans and shores. Due to their wide spread and adverse effects on ecology, economy and potentially human health, plastic pollution has been...

Familiarising the unknown: How to interact with a changing water environment and (re)embrace its natural power

The story about the relationship of human with water has been always linked with the fear of the hidden, natural power of water. By identifying the historical position of the North Sea, it is confirmed that the sea has been perceived as “the edge of the world” in its past. The sea and its cold northern waters was seen as an evil in itself, as a...

Episodic density-induced current velocities at the Gemini offshore wind park

This thesis investigates the origin of observed current velocities at the Gemini offshore wind farm in 2015. Currents have been measured of 1.2 m/s while, based upon tidal and storm predictions, currents of only 0.7 m/s were expected. The aim of this research is to gain insight into the origin of these higher currents, taking into account the...

DMMS-ZEETOETS

KSENOS: Aanpassing en uitbreiding van het modelinstrumentarium MANS voor toxische stoffen en eutrofiering in de Noordzee en de Nederlandse kustwateren

Gegevensbehoefte van Noordzee- en Waddenzeemodellen

Beheer en onderhoud MANS-instrumentarium: Fase 1

De kalibratie van de Cd-koefficient in ZUNOWAK

Effects of sea level rise on coastal evolution

Using the Dutch coastal evolution in the Holocene upto the present as an example and a test case, a coastal evolution concept is proposed and materialized with which shoreline position changes for different sea level rise scenarios are predicted. The (more generally applicable) model applies to (quasi-)uniform coastal stretches. It accounts for...

Data Report of Current, Temperature and Pressure Observations: Stratified Central North Sea 1980-1982

During springs, summers and autumns of 1980,1981 and 1982 a collaborative study on the seasonal stratification of the Central North Sea was performed by the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, the Institute of Meteorology and Oceanography Utrecht and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute. This report lists mooring positions, local...

Hydrography of the Dutch Wadden Sea

In this paper an attempt has been made to describe for the Dutch Wadden Sea water movement, transport of suspended matter and the cycle of suspended organic matter. Stress has been laid on the fact that these are related subjects, which therefore ought to be studied in combination. The discussion was based on observations made in the years 1949...