Session 1: Foreshores for Climate Risk Reduction
TransCoastal Adaptations is hosting a three-part Managed Dyke Realignment workshop series as part of our project Making Room for Wetlands: Implementation of Managed Realignment for Salt Marsh Restoration and Climate Change Adaptation in Nova Scotia.
This workshop will focus on three components of Managed Dyke Realignment and will bring together key researchers and practitioners from Europe and North America. The purpose of this workshop is to connect practitioners and share Managed Realignment Best Practices, lessons learned, and innovations in design and monitoring. Through knowledge sharing with European counterparts, we hope to establish managed realignment as a key nature-based adaptation strategy.
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Speakers
Dr. Iris Möller - The Empirical Evidence Base for Salt Marsh Resilience, Water Level, and Wave Reduction
Prof Iris Möller is Head of Department of Geography within the School of Natural Sciences at Trinity College, where she leads a coastal research group. She is internationally recognised for her research on the buffering function of coastal wetland environments with a strongly applied focus on improving coastal flood and erosion risk management. Prior to taking up her current position late in 2019, she was Deputy Director of the University of Cambridge’s Coastal Research Unit (CCRU) and University Lectureship in Physical Geography (Coastal Processes) at the Department of Geography at Cambridge. She collaborates across the EU, UK, China, Australia, and the USA on projects that aim to develop a better understanding of how coastal wetlands function and deliver a range of ecosystem services.
Dr. Bas Borsje - Pushing Boundaries: Realizing Resilient and Climate-Proof Coastal Protection
Dr. ir. Bas Borsje is an expert in the field of Building with Nature, more specifically in nature-based coastal protection. Bas holds a master in Civil Engineering (cum laude), a PhD in Ecological Engineering (cum laude), a VENI grant in Nature-based flood protection, was nominated as New Scientist young research talent (top 5) in 2016 and is PI of the NWA-ORC project "Living Dikes" from 2020 onwards.
Bas' research group consists of 10 PhD students (3 finalised, 4 ongoing and 3 vacant) and 6 postdocs (3 finished, 2 ongoing and 1 vacant). For all positions, he was (co-)applicant and/or member of the core writing team (see projects). Moreover, he supervised 40 MSc students and 11 BSc students.
In 2016, Bas became an elected member and in 2019 he became chair of the Young Wadden Academy (YWA). The YWA consists of 5 excellent young Dutch and German scientists with outspoken views about science and scholarship and related policies. The YWA’s main tasks are (i) to encourage young researchers to study the Wadden Sea region through the organization of a yearly conference, (ii) to stimulate interdisciplinary Wadden-related research via joint MSc projects and (iii) to develop a vision with regards to science and governance of this UNESCO world heritage site.
Dr. Vincent Vuik - Vegetated Foreshores in Hydraulic Engineering Practice
Vincent Vuik is a coastal engineer specialized in flood risk and nature-based solutions. He performed his PhD research at Delft University of Technology. He investigated the flood risk reduction potential of vegetated foreshores, such as salt marshes and mangrove forests. At such foreshores, waves, sediment, vegetation and the interactions between these components are of main importance. Vincent has measured wave propagation over vegetated foreshores in the field during severe storms. Further, he has modelled the dominant hydrodynamic and morphological processes, and applied state-of-the-art probabilistic methods for extreme value analysis. Currently, he is part-time employed at HKV Consultants, a Dutch company focusing on water-related consultancy, and part-time at Delft University of Technology.
