This project aims to reconstruct the transgression of the fluvial valley, with emphasis on the interlinked response of the coastal and fluvial to rapid sea-level rise. To do so, beside collecting new data, existing subsurface data from many different sources are integrated in a single database. With this data, past sea levels and the development of the study area are reconstructed. Using the results, sequence stratigraphic models will be tested. read more

The objective of this project is to understand the short- to long-term behavior of bar and rip patterns on the beach. This is done by monthly surveying the beach morphology, describing and doing morphometric analysis of the intertidal bar morphology using the ARGUS video images of Noordwijk and Egmond aan Zee in the Netherlands. read more

Study of the estuarine and sediment dynamics in the downstream branch of the Ba Lat river, Vietnam, and adjacent delta system. read more

Nearshore sandbars often exhibit remarkable alongshore-periodic undulations in their height and cross-shore position. These so-called crescentic sandbars are characterised by horizontal flow patterns with rip currents. During storm periods, the sandbars are almost immediately straightened again due to strong undertow currents. In double-barred systems, the shape of the outer bar may govern the evolution of the inner bar, introducing coupled patterns. In this project field observations (video images) and numerical models are combined to determine the conditions under which the outer crescentic sandbar (a) controls the morphology of the inner bar and (b) is reshaped into a shore-parallel linear bar. read more

The wave and current flume of the laboratory for physical geography is a flume for studying waves and currents in a controlled environment. The flume is available for educational purposes and research. Academic research experiments can be performed at low costs, and secondary school experiments are free of charge. read more