Student already contribute a number of years to our projects on fresh and salt groundwater in the coastal area. Sometimes with nice reports, sometimes with great results, article worthy! As such, this made that we are a strong supporter of guiding students through internships or thesis (both MSc and PhD)! We have already had students from Dutch universities (WUR, UU, VU), Universities of Applied Sciences (Zeeland, Larensteijn) and institutions like UNESCO-IHE. Foreign (PhD) students were welcome (Universities of Aachen, Ghent, Firenze, Bologna, Roma (La Sapienza)).

We have quite a few new topics, from numerical modeling to water system analysis using monitoring techniques. Just contact us, or the students below via e.g. LinkedIn!

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New topics:

• Freshwater management techniques as a bridge between water demand and supply in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam (including fieldwork provinces Ben Tre or Tra Vinh)

• Analysis of upconing of saline groundwater under deltaic areas (numerical study)
• Effect of model parameters (e,g. solute solvers, grid convergence) on variable-density groundwater and salt transport benchmark cases (e.g. Henry, Hydrocoin, upconing; numerical analysis using iMOD-SEAWAT)
• Fresh groundwater resources management at a farmers level in the province of Zeeland, The Netherlands: setting up robust web-based clipping tools; a modelling study
• Assessing submarine groundwater discharge along coastal stretches: a global analysis
• Setting up a 3D variable-density groundwater flow model simulating salt water intrusion in a deltaic area: possible cases: the Bengal, Indus, Po, Yangtze, Pearl river deltas

info: gualbert dot oudeessink at deltares dot nl

Examples past studies since 2005:

2019

• Lars Geitenbeek, Utrecht University, Saline groundwater extraction as a measure to increase the freshwater availability; A case study for the western parts of the Netherlands

2018

• Lars Geitenbeek, Utrecht University, Saline groundwater extraction as a measure to increase the freshwater availability; A case study for the western parts of the Netherlands
• Hugo Hagendoorn, Delft University of Technology, Measuring and modelling to optimise a salinity monitoring network for use in the optimal control of flushing: Case study: Lissertocht catchment
• Tobias Mulder, Utrecht University, Constructing 3D variable-density groundwater flow models for six deltas using global data sets

2017

• Wayangi Lakshani Weerasekera, IHE-Delft, 3D Variable-density Groundwater Modelling of the Red River Delta, Vietnam

2016

• Lubna Badi, Utrecht University, BSc, Securing freshwater supply with measures to diminish the effect of sea-level rise by climate change (Literature review on state-of-art SWI research and a case study on SIDS in the Pacific)

• Björn Bolhuis, Utrecht University, Developing an automated open source system for coastal multi-hazard assessment and management of water resources in a changing climate (Based on the Coastal Hazard Wheel system)

2015

2014

• Jan Snel, Wageningen UR, Oplossingen ten behoeve van zoetwatervoorziening voor de landbouw op Schouwen-Duiveland
• Mieke Hulshof, Wageningen UR, Spatial scales in salinity modeling, case Waterdunen, Zeeland (Folkert Hellinga Award 2014)
• Daniel Zamrsky, Wageningen UR, Coastal vulnerability to tsunami impacts and modelling SWI in aquifers situated in the most vulnerable areas
• Carlos Rosado de Palacio, Utrecht University, Water system analysis and numerical modelling of a coastal aquifer in western Mexico: a case study

2013

• Marjan Sommeijer, Wageningen UR, Identifying suitable locations for infiltration of fresh water in creek ridges
• Thomas Boerman, Utrecht University, Fresh water lenses under creek ridges: a pilot study in Zeeland to increase fresh water supply
• Pieter Winters, Universteit Gent, Belgie, Estimating flow patterns to an agricultural ditch by inverse modeling of temperature and salinity measurements

2012

• Maitri Fischer, Utrecht University, Managing freshwater lenses in a Dutch coastal setting - increasing freshwater availability by aquifer storage and recovery.
• Martijn Visser, Utrecht University, Aquifer storage and recovery in a fossil creek bed - managing droughts in a brackish environment
• Irene Lugten, Utrecht University, The effects of salt water intrusion from the Dintel into the surface and groundwater in the regio
• Kyra Hu-A-Ng, Utrecht University, Understanding Holocene coastal development and the resulting evolution of groundwater chloride distribution in the North-West coastal region of the Netherlands - a historical modelling approach

2010

• Bernard Voortman, Utrecht University, Impact of climate change on the region properties and thickness and form of rainwater lenses in the Province of Zeeland (in Dutch), contribution to Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 15, 3659-3678
• Aileen Mirasol-Robert, Utrecht University, Analysis of Submarine Groundwater Discharge to Manila Bay - 3D Density Dependent Hydrogeological Modeling of the South-eastern coastal zone of Bataan, Philippines

• Dagmar Schnitzer, Utrecht University, Response of a fresh-brackish groundwater system to hydrological management in and around the Naardermeer wetland, the Netherlands (in Dutch)

2008

• Tommaso Letterio, Uni of Firenze, Italy

2007

• Bas de Veen en Sjors Stevens, VU Amsterdam, Monitoring campaign rainwater lenses in the province of Zeeland (in Dutch)
• Corne Prevo, HZ University of Applied Sciences, Aquatische Ecotechnologie: Rainwater lenses in the province of Zeeland (in Dutch)
• Francesco Sergi, La Sapienza, Roma, Italy, Salinisation processes in the Province of Zeeland, the Netherlands, contribution to Near Surface Geophysics, 401-412, 2007
• Marian Koskamp, Wageningen UR, Model study of chloride concentration in soil moisture and shallow groundwater in a saline seepage system (in Dutch)
• Valentina Marconi, Uni of Bologna, Italy, Characterization of shallow fresh groundwater lenses in the Province of Zeeland with 2D geo-electrical surveys
• Vesna Tripkovics, UNESCO-IHE, Salt water intrusion in The Province of Zeeland, the Netherlands - water system analysis and numerical modeling

2006

• Elles Bader, VU Amsterdam, Salinisation and freshening processes in the Netherlands, with special attention to the Wieringermeerpolder (in Dutch)
• Piet Maljaars en Runa Wils, Larenstein University of Applied Sciences, Rainwater lenses in saline seepage systems (in Dutch)

2005

• Beatrice Giambastiani, Uni of Bolgona, Italy, Saltwater intrusion and water management in the unconfined coastal aquifer of Ravenna (Italy): a numerical model J. Hydrol. 340, 1-2, 91-104, 2007