former projects

Coastal Dynamics and Human Impact

Constructional impacts on bedform dynamics

With sophisticated new instrumentation, especially a high-resolution multibeam echosounder and an acoustic Doppler current profiler, significant new insights into the dynamic behavior of dunes in tidal channels have been achieved.
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Suspended sediment flux in engineered estuaries

In some estuaries suspended matter occurs as "fluid mud" a highly concentrated sediment suspension of cohesive fine grained particles. This project aims at a process based description of suspension, transport and settling dynamics. The combined use of state-of-the-art acoustic instrumentation gives insight in the complex interactions between the suspended matter dynamics within the water column und the formation of fluid mud at the river bed.
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Geotechnical and geophysical seabed characterisation

With a special focus on assigned offshore construction sites (e.g. harbours or wind energy parks), the correlation of survey information with soil strength data, and the study of local offshore structure-seabed interactions in a morphodynamic and micromechanical sense is investigated.
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Morphodynamics and sediment budgets in coastal seas

This project explores the sediment transport mechanisms driving the morphodynamic evolution of near-coastal environments.
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