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 …
Category: Research
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …