Fietsen Noord-Pasadena
Omdat ik niemand heb om tegen te praten, heb ik maar eens geprobeerd om tegen de camera te praten. Ik maak natuurlijk vaak filmpjes, maar dit is echt mijn eerste vlog!
Rubicon granted!
Hallo allemaal! Super goed nieuws! Ik heb een Rubicon beurs gekregen om onderzoek te doen naar deltas op planeet Mars. Dit onderzoek ga ik uitvoeren aan de California Institute of Technology. Beter bekent als Caltech. Read More …
5th Brunings Lecture
The annual Christiaan Brunings Lecture is an annual event that brings together the scientists, practitioners and managers of rivers and estuaries. Yesterday the 5th Brunings Lecture took place and will probably also be the last Read More …
The Deep: Aquarium Hull (UK)
Yesterday me and my colleagues and friends Jana Cox and William McMahon visited a friend and former colleague of ours (Anne Baar) at the University of Hull, UK. We stayed with her for two days Read More …
Symposium: Experiences of Gender in Academia
The Young Women Of Geosciences (YWOG) organised an excellent symposium on experiences of gender in academia to promote diversion and inclusion at universities. The symposium consisted of a talk on the importance of gender diversity Read More …
Digital flipbook of my thesis
Below you can find a digital flipbook of my thesis. You can also open it here: https://bit.ly/2VasX1D. Feel free to share! 4022_196_71761
PhD defence comming up
In two weeks I will defend my thesis ‘Morphodynamics and Sedimentology of Estuaries with Sand and Mud’. This is the last and final part of my PhD. I’m a bit sad that this part of Read More …
Nieuw Zeeland
Na het indienen van mijn thesis ben ik samen met mijn partner Bas en vriendin/collega Anne naar nieuw Zeeland geweest. We wilde hier alle drie altijd al heel graag een keer naartoe en nu was Read More …
Dissertation approved!
This week my dissertation was approved by my reading committee. This committee consists of 6 professors outside my own university. This means I can finally work on the last details and layout. I plan to Read More …
AGU 2018
As you might know I have been making a lot of videos recently, so I also decided to make a short video of my AGU experience this year. The video is not only about the Read More …
NCK themeday
Last monday several people of our research group went to the NCK themeday at the Art Centre in Delft. The themeday was focussed on research related to the Scheldt estuary and consisted of 16 presentations Read More …
New paper published with Metronome experiments!
Today the final version of my new article became available on the ESPL website! The paper is on the effects of estuarine mudflats on tidal prism and large-scale morphology. This article is based on results Read More …
Mississippi Tour + AGU movie
This movie is a bit late (from last december), but I had some other movies that I had to finish editing first. This movie belongs to my posts of 22 and 30 december. I hope Read More …
Veldwerk Frankrijk filmpje 2016
Dit jaar ben ik voor de vierde keer mee als begeleider op het 1e jaars studenten veldwerk in Frankrijk. Twee jaar geleden heb ik veel gefilmd tijdens dit veldwerk, maar het bewerken nooit afgemaakt. Hier Read More …
Bifurcation – Hydralab+ (2)
As promised, an update on our progress in the Fast Flow Facility (although I did managed to post it on Friday, sorry!). Today I am in the lab on my own. Michele left on Friday Read More …
Bifurcations – Hydralab+
Two days ago I travelled to the UK to do experiments at HR Wallingford for two weeks. We are working with a group in the Fast Flow Facility on a Hydralab+ project on bifurcation stability. Read More …
Ice skating on the Catharijnesingel, Utrecht
It has been freezing for a few days now. Only yesterday, the ice got thick enough to stand on and the thaw will start soon. However, this small window this morning was enough for us Read More …
Mississippi Tour, Louisiana
In my previous post I talked about the AGU conference in New Orleans. The week before this conference me and three colleagues (Jasper Leuven, Wout van Dijk and Sanja Selakovic) went on a excursion along Read More …
AGU fall meeting 2017
After presenting during the European Geophysical Union last year, I thought I might better also try presenting at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting. The AGU fall meeting is the biggest conference in our field Read More …
Making Laqcuer peels!
Thanks to an excellent explanation from Janrik van den Berg, me and Wietse van de Lageweg were able to make some nice laqcuer peels from the cores were brought back from the Walsoorden Fieldwork. It Read More …
Looking for mud! (Fieldwork Walsoorden)
Yesterday we went for Fieldwork in the Western Scheldt on the tidal bar of Walsoorden. This was not an easy task, not only did we have to get up at five to be there in Read More …
Hackathon
Als onderdeel van het MIRT-onderzoek ‘Duurzame Bodemligging Rijntakken’ organiseerde Arcadis een Hackathon (zie definitie onderaan deze pagina) om young professionals te betrekken in het bedenken van creatieve oplossingen voor dit probleem. De opdracht komt van Read More …
First paper published!
Inbetween all the drama this week I recieved this awesome email: “We are pleased to inform you that your following manuscript has been published in Earth Surface Dynamics”. The first first-author paper of my PhD Read More …
RCEM pictures
Many representative at the RCEM (10th symposium on river, coastal and estuarine morphodynamics) in Italy from our group from Utrecht. Two nice excursions durings this conference to the the venice lagoon by boat and the Read More …
Department day
About half the Physical Geography department of Utrecht University joined the department day to the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). During this day we had the opportunity to get a tour through the Read More …
Mini-Metronome Terschelling
Since a few weeks the Metronome has a new baby brother (or sister?) on Terschelling, a wadden island of the Netherlands. Together with Jan Mulder (pensioner and friend of Terschelling) I visited Teschelling twice to Read More …
Experiments with cohesive seidments at Bangor University
On my way to Manchester airport from Bangor, Wales, UK. This weekend I joined a workshop on cohesive sediments in flumes, which was great and very relevant for my research! We got to see different types Read More …
PhD-day in the dunes
A short (5min) movie of the PhD-day from our department. During this day, we went on an excursion to the Noordwest Natuurkern where we learned about dune blowouts. In the afternoon we went blokarting and lasergaming in Read More …
Status paper: online discussion paper (ESurfD)
My first paper as first author is now online available as a discussion paper in Earth Surface Dynamics. This means that the first part of my PhD research is now under review. Special about this journal Read More …
River research conference (NCR-days)
Recently I went to the NCR-days with some collegues. This is a conference in the Netherlands about river research. At this conference I presented my modelling study about the effect of fluvial mud supply on Read More …
A day at the Metronome
I made a short movie about a day at the Metronome. This movie shows the last day of my first experiment of an estuary with nutshell as mud simulant. You’ll see me making pictures from which Read More …
Nutflats
At the moment we are working on the first experiment in which we use nutshell grains as mud simulant. Nutshell grains are light weight and become a little be cohesive after some time in the flume. Read More …
DUB de werkplek: de estuaria van Lisanne Braat
An article was published about my workplace in the magazine of the university called the DUB. This is the link to the article: www.dub.uu.nl/de-werkplek/2016/09/27/estuaria-lisanne-braat.html
SIESD2016
I had an amazing time the past two weeks at the Summer Institute on Earth-Surface Dynamics (SIESD) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. During our time there we got many interesting lectures from i.a. Garry Parker, did physical Read More …
Nog een jaar Veldwerk Frankrijk
Ook dit jaar ging ik (en een hoop zelfde collega’s als vorig jaar) weer mee naar Frankrijk om de nieuwe eerste jaars bachelor studenten te leren hoe veldwerk er aan toe gaat. Ze leren hoe ze Read More …
EGU
Me and my poster at my first conference outside the Netherlands.
Fieldwork in Vietnam
This April, me and Jasper went to Vietnam to help our collegue, Sepehr, with his fieldwork on the Mekong delta. The project is about the salt intrusion in the Mehkong delta. Together with Jasper, Sepehr, Read More …
Opening of the Metronome!
Official opening of The Metronome tidal laboratory facility during the Christiaan Brunings lecture. This will become a yearly event at Utrecht University with every year a speaker from a foreign university and dutch speaker from Read More …
The Metronome is moving!
Water, check! Electricity, check! Pumping, check! Walls, check! Roughness, check! Sand, check! Movement, check! Cameras, …check?? Well, all but one. Safety, …uhm. Access card? … Of course there are still a few bugs to be Read More …
Earth scientist don’t get holidays
A few days ago I came back from a small holiday at the Lauwersmeer near the Wadden Sea, North Frisia (the Netherlands). I just looked back at my photos and realized for the 100th time, Read More …
Distributing sand in the Metronome
The experimental setup for tidal experiments, The Metronome, is almost finished. Electrical wiring, laying water pipes, installing camera’s etc. is all done. At the moment the Metronome is covered with artificial grass for roughness. Increased roughness will Read More …
Supervisor Fieldwork France
As part of my appointment as a PhD researcher at Utrecht University I am required to spent 10% of my time on student education. This year I spent this time supervising students on their first year fieldwork Read More …
Visit annular flume Delft
Today me and Jasper visited Anne at Delft University of Technology. We helped her, together with two master students, changing the sediment in the experimental setup she is currently using. This was also a nice opportunity to Read More …
Field excursion Dovey (Dyfi) estuary
Our Vici-research-group visited Willem Toonen (PhD from Utrecht University) at Aberystwyth University where he is currently working. With his connections we set up some collaborations between our universities for estuarine research. Aberystwyth University has a lot Read More …
Western Scheldt excursion
Today I went on a small excursion to the ‘plaat van Walsoorden’, a shoal in the Western Sheldt. With thanks to Rijkswaterstaat I was able to look at the variation in mud content at different locations on the Read More …
NCK-days, my first conference as a PhD
Together with my several colleagues from the department, we went to the NCK Days at Schoorl near the Hondsbossche and Pettemer Sea Defence. The NCK days are a very friendly start-up in the world of scientific Read More …
Arrival experimental setup ‘The Metronome’
Before my PhD even started the brand new setup for our experiments (The Metronome) arrived by truck. It was pretty impressive, especially when the flume was lifted of the truck and needed to be maneuvered through the Read More …