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We seek a PhD candidate for the SOURCE programme: Sand nOUrishment strategies for sustainable Coastal Ecosystems. In this programme we study how carefully planned sand nourishments in the present may create the required and desired resilient and dynamic multifunctional coastal landscapes of the future. SOURCE aims to deliver the scientific knowledge, models and design tools to develop and evaluate nourishment strategies in a multi-stakeholder co-creation process.
Our Living Labs are two sand nourishments along the Dutch coast, which will be co-designed, monitored and evaluated by the SOURCE consortium. There will be 12 PhD candidates and postdoc researchers at 8 academic institutes in total, collaborating closely with 25 partners from government organizations, research institutes, nature organizations and industry. In this PhD project you will focus on the sediment pathways and sediment connectivity within (future) nourished coastal systems.
Large-scale sand nourishment has been essential in the Dutch government’s strategy to sustainably maintain flood protection levels along the Dutch coast for more than 30 years. Nourishment volumes will have to increase to keep up with the expected acceleration in sea level rise. Currently, however, there is a lack of fundamental knowledge on how the nourished sand finds its way through the coastal system, and what the long-term, cumulative effects are for the coast as an ecosystem. Long-term (50+ years) datasets and satellite imagery of the nourished Dutch coast, combined with novel data from dedicated SOURCE Living Labs, provide the opportunity for learning how coastal zones respond to repeated and large-scale nourishment.
Your main task will be to develop the understanding and approaches for quantifying sediment pathways of nourished sand along the sandy Dutch North Sea coast. Current maintenance of flood safety and nature functions along the Dutch coast involves adding sand at erosive cross-shore transects and placing the sand as shoreface nourishments within sandbar systems. You will combine extensive data analyses, sediment sampling and field experiments, supported by numerical modelling, to investigate:
Through close collaboration with your TU Delft counterpart you will bridge the gap between the processes that drive nourishment-scale morphodynamics and sediment pathways at the scale of the Dutch coast.
You will be based at the Physical Geography department at Utrecht University, where you will be part of a vibrant PhD community and research group with renown expertise in coastal systems. As a project team we will collectively gain system understanding, be relevant in the application of our work, and communicate in an open and constructive way. You will gain skills in science communication for interdisciplinary collaboration and for explaining your results to partners that intend to use the knowledge. You will present your work at meetings and (inter)national scientific conferences.
To support academic and personal development, PhD candidates follow courses and assist in teaching Earth Sciences at Bachelor's and Master's level. Together these activities amount to twenty percent of the contracted time.
We look forward to your application if you have the following qualifications:
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