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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …