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| Title | Human impact on aeolian sediment transport on a beach |
| Group | Soil Physics and Land Management group |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 24-39 |
| Supervisor(s) | Michel Riksen, Dirk Goossens |
| Examiner(s) | Michel Riksen |
| Contact info | Michel.Riksen@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2021/05/25 |
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| Description | The Nature Based Solutions the Sand Engine (NBS) near Den Hague aims to maintain the coastal safety by functioning as a sediment source for wind and water erosion. The sediment transported by wind is needed to maintain the current foredunes and create new dunes. Higher dunes are needed to keep up with the sea-level rise in the upcoming decades. It has shown that the Sand Engine also attracts large number op people. However little is known their impact on the sediment transport. Surface roughness is one of the parameters in wind erosion that determines the sediment transport.
Research Objective/Question The objective of this research project is to improve the effect of large scale NBS along the coast by investigating the effect of human activity on surface roughness and sediment transport. In other words, What is the effect of human activity on the surface conditions on a beach? And what is the (temporal) impact of this on the sediment transport. What is expected from the student (type of research) Design and execute a field experiment in which you test the effect of different intensities of recreation pressure on the surface roughness and sediment transport. |
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| Requirements | Knowledge on (wind) erosion processes, good in handling data in excel |