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| Title | Modeling of overland transport of water and veterinary pharmaceuticals into surface water |
| Group | Soil Physics and Land Management group |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 24-39 |
| Supervisor(s) | Peter Schaap, Nikola Rakonjac |
| Examiner(s) | Sjoerd van der Zee |
| Contact info | peter1.schaap@wur.nl, nikola.rakonjac@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2021/05/25 |
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| Description | Veterinary pharmaceuticals (VPs) in manure end up in agricultural fields and threaten surface water quality. The most important and fastest route by which VPs could reach the surface water is probably the overland flow. In this case, the VPs present in soil-applied manure have limited time to degrade, thus significant VPs portions could end up in surface water. But overland flow/runoff in flat areas has received little attention so far. Currently, we combine GIS, data, and a simple leaching model for VPs in GeoVPmodel, so we can calculate VP-leaching for each field in the Netherlands. This yields maps of VP leaching that depend on e.g. adsorption coefficient (similar as for pesticides in maps on the right). Now we intend to pre-process data and develop a simple overland flow model, so that we can calculate the major transport route of VPs into surface water for all of the Netherlands.
What is expected from the student (type of research) You will study literature, work with GIS and combine data bases (AHN-soil surface elevation; land use; etc) and develop a model for overland flow and transport of VPs. Work with GIS and flow/transport models will be main activities. |
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| Requirements | affinity with modelling; GIS & R or Matlab |