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Next Generation Researchers Training Course: Processes and Modelling in Coastal and Estuarine Environments

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DHI, Denmark is organising a training cour for next generation researchers on the subject of Processes and Modelling in Coastal and Estuarine Environments.  The course will take place in week 26, 2019. It will cover 6 days from Monday 24 June with arrival on Sunday before. The course will conclude on Saturday 29 June 2019 at 13:00 at the Danhotel, Havnegade 2, Rødbyhavn, Denmark. 

 
This course for PhD-students and early career researchers will use the non-tidal coastal lagoon Rødsand in Southern Denmark as a case study. The area serves as a working laboratory and facilitates study of a wide range of subjects including:

  • Cohesive and non-cohesive sediment properties
  • Sediment spill from dredging operations
  • Field survey techniques
  • System understanding
  • Numerical modelling of estuarine areas
  • Sediment transport in estuarine areas

The course has its focus on natural and man-made sediment dynamics in the lagoon, including possible effects coming construction of the nearby submerged Femern Tunnel between Denmark and Germany.

If you are interested and would like to sign up, please contact Anders Wedel Nielsen, awn@dhigroup.com, phone +45 4516 9299. Deadline for signing up is 13th of May 2019. Use the online application form to apply for the course. Travel costs up to EUR 400 per person can be reimbursed.

You can also download the full programme below.


CORIOLIS II platform: key research infrastructure for the celebration of the CNRS 80th anniversary

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For 365 days, the CNRS will celebrate, through events in France and abroad, the values at the foundation of the institution: the freedom of research, the advancement of knowledge, the team work, the scientific excellence, innovation and knowledge transfer, social progress and dissemination of scientific culture. 

The CORIOLIS II platform has been selected as one of the key research infrastructure for the celebration of the CNRS 80th anniversary, under: http://80ans.cnrs.fr/le-tour-de-france-en-80-jours

A virtual visit of the Coriolis platform as the worldwide largest turntable dedicated to Environmental Fluid Mechanics, has been created for that purpose.

The link to the visit is: http://www.legi.grenoble-inp.fr/web/spip.php?article1421 


Internship on model scale testing in ice

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A new internship on model scale testing in ice is offered at HSVA (The Hamburg Ship Model Basin), Hamburg, Germany. The internship will run preferably from November 12th to 23rd 2018 or alternatively in early 2019 for a duration of 2 weeks. Key skills to be acquired will include experimental methods in ice research; model scale tests in ice; measurement techniques; practical experience in testing; data acquisition and basic processing.

For more information as well as contact details and information on how to apply, please visit the HYDRALAB+ website dedicated page on http://hydralab.eu/taking-part/new-researcher-internships/


'Procedure for the 3-D reproductionof a physical model structure using Microsoft® Kinext 2.0' Video published to the Virtual Learning Community

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A new video from the Hydralab+ Virtual Learning Community is now available on our Youtube channel (click here) and on the Hydralab website (click here). The video shows Procedure for the 3-D reproductionof a physical model structure using Microsoft® Kinext 2.0. More videos on new technologies, good practice in experimentation, instrumentation and data analysis in the physical modelling community will be made available as the Hydralab+ project progresses.


'3D surface mapping with Photogrammetry using Agisoft Photoscan' Video published to the Virtual Learning Community

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A new video from the Hydralab+ Virtual Learning Community is now available on our Youtube channel (click here) and on the Hydralab website (click here). The video shows 3D surface mapping with Photogrammetry using Agisoft Photoscan. More videos on new technologies, good practice in experimentation, instrumentation and data analysis in the physical modelling community will be made available as the Hydralab+ project progresses.


Experimental Study of an Ecosystem Engineer Species: Crepidula Fornicata

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A new video on the Ifremer Dyneco Experimental Study of an Ecosystem Engineer Species: Crepidula Fornicata has been published on the website on page http://hydralab.eu/research--results/morphodynamics-and-protective-structures/JRA2-COMPLEX---Results/ 


UPC: Armour layer stability tests results published on the website

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Under TASK 8.2: INNOVATIVE APPROACHES FOR REPRESENTING VARIABILITY AND UNSTEADINESS IN FLUME FACILITIES, UPC ran armour layer stability tests in the Wave Flume.

The objective of this study is to understand the laboratory effects of storm representation and test repeatability on damage measurements in the armour layer of a breakwater. For that, we study in a small-scale wave flume the effects of storm duration and storm sequencing on the stability of a two-layer cubic block breakwater. We start by simulating a real storm measured in the Mediterranean Sea.  Then three different representation models of the real storm are simulated: the classical model (Melby & Kobayashi, 1998) and two ‘Equivalent Magnitude Storm’ (EMS) models with triangular and trapezoidal shapes (Martín-Hidalgo et al., 2014; Soldevilla et al., 2015). All the four methodologies are repeated at least ten times. For the assessment of the damage in the armor layer of the breakwater, the damage parameter  (relative damage) proposed by Van der Meer is used.

Results can be found on page http://hydralab.eu/research--results/jra1-recipe/JRA1-RECIPE---Results/UPC-Armour-layer-stability-tests/ of the website.


Deltares Individual Wave Overtopping Tests

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UnderTASK 8.2: INNOVATIVE APPROACHES FOR REPRESENTING VARIABILITY AND UNSTEADINESS IN FLUME FACILITIES, Deltares ran Individual Wave Overtopping Tests in the Scheldt Flume at Deltares.

A series of 27 tests in the Scheldt Flume at Deltares were used in this study. The tests were characterized by a breakwater with a smooth slope that was exposed to approximately 1000 waves. Between the different tests the water levels (3), wave height (3) and wave steepness (3) varied. In addition, the same series of 27 tests (and 6 repetitions) with the same wave forcing and similar breakwater shape, but with a rubble mount slope and crest wall, was used to broaden the applicability of the automated semantic segmentation techniques to more turbulent waves. These tests were used for model training, but model testing focused on the smooth slope tests since a better model/data comparison was possible. Data were acquired from 150 Hz high-speed video footage through the glass flume wall using a single camera mounted on a tripod approximately 1 m from the flume. A flow depth measurement at the breakwater crest is used to order the waves on impact. From the top 100 waves with largest flow depth in each test 50 waves are used in the analysis. Figure 1 shows an overtopping wave.

Results can be found on page http://hydralab.eu/research--results/jra1-recipe/JRA1-RECIPE---Results/Deltares-Individual-Wave-Overtopping-Tests/ of the website.


HYDRALAB+ Next Generation Researchers’ Workshop

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Second Training Workshop for Next Generation to be done at iCIEM infrastructure at LIM/UPC (Barcelona): Representing environmental complexity in experimental design and acoustic measurement techniques

Fifteen of the best early career researchers coming from 12 countries have met in Barcelona from 6th to 8th Febraury 2018 in the facilities of the Maritime Engineering Laboratory of the Catalonia University of Technology (LIM/UPC) for a high-level 3 days’ workshop on the topic of the hydro-morphodynamic measurement techniques representing the environmental complexities.

Special focus has been given to acoustic measurements used both in the laboratory and in the field. Velocity structures, sediment concentration, free surface elevation and bed forms were the main topics reviewed during the workshop. The spokesmen were recognized professionals from the scientific and commercial world who made their knowledge available to the next generation researchers.

They have been able to see firsthand different sensors and to participate in masterclasses on the measuring principles, the instrumental deployment, both in laboratory and in the field, an application case and the systems commercially available. They also had the unique opportunity to work both in the large and small scale wave flumes of LIM/UPC setting up different pieces of equipment and collecting data-sets.

The last day the students worked on the collected data performing data analysis under the guidance of the professors and applying all the knowledge acquired in the previous days. The final keynote has been given by the professor and director of the LIM/UPC, Agustin Sanchez-Arcilla on how important are these measurements for climate change and adaptation for coastal processes. 

We would like to take this opportunity to tahnk all the people involved in the preparation and organisation of this event and in particular, staff at the Catalonia University of Technology and all the speakers on these 3 day event.


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