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Rocks in the landscape tell a story of course you have to be able to understand their language but then they no longer keep their secrets. On the contrary theyre full of stories and they can hardly wait to tell them. This is dora. With the help of Greenland Rock Rosing estimated that life on earth began Three Hundred Million years earlier than previously thought winning him worldwide acclaim now hes collecting glacial mud instead of rocks as he searches for a new story a story that could benefit...

Our coasts are increasingly under pressure. To protect them, we need to work with nature.

There is growing interest in the adoption of Engineering with Nature or Nature Based Solutions for coastal protection including large mega-nourishment interventions. However, there are still many unknowns on the variables and design features influencing their functionalities.

Do boast erections six hundred thousand to wouldnt just north and four hundred thousand cubic meters in southern direction so nature has been doing its job dispersing the sand up and down the coast. every two months the scientists mapped the sand engine and the adjacent coastline. they chant the movements of the masses of sand and record depth changes in the lagoon created behind the sand bar. and. radar and sensors mounted on boys track waves and currents. a fourteen meter tall mast was built f...

North sea coast much of the beach sand bar that bulges out into the sea is manmade it was created in twenty eleven and designed to serve as a sand engine to counter coastal erosion. marcel stever a professor at the delft university of technology is the mastermind behind the project. the basic idea project. we wanted to make this coastal stretch over here we want wanted to make it safe for the next fifty years in the light of climate change so instead of making a. norris mint every four years so ...

In that way we can observe development of the geometry of the send engine we can look at such a day should. we can look at. the way the lagoon feels an empty set and how it changes so its a burman and observation. the data collected over the years demonstrate that a sand engine that is a single mega nourishment designed to last for decades can indeed work. the wind waves and currents help to replenish the receding coastline. plants are taking root on a sandbar. grass growing on the dunes helps t...

Ecosystem all the time. it took eight months to build the sand engine. dredges brought up material from the seabed ten kilometers offshore and spat it out here to create a huge depth of sediment as a peninsula in front of the original slender beach. twenty one and a half million cubic meters of sand what dumped here five times as much as would be usual in a standard shorter term sand replenishment operation. the plan is for the wind waves and currents to disperse the sand from here up and down t...

To put a large amount of sediment that would last for twenty years that would distribute itself. through natural forces along the coast so we dont have to disturb the ecosystem all the time. it took eight months to build the sand engine. dredges brought up material from the seabed ten kilometers offshore and started out here to create a huge depth of sediment as a peninsula in front of the original slender beach. twenty one and a half million cubic meters of sand what dumped here five times as m...

A fourteen metre tall mast was built for the project as a mount for cameras that monitor the landscape and seascape in all directions. the way we can observe development of the geometry of the send engine we can look at such a day shouldnt. we can look at. the way to look who feels an empty set and how it changes so its a permanent servatius. the data collected over the years demonstrate that a sand engine that is a single mega nourishment designed to last for decades can indeed work. the wind w...

Ecosystem all the time. it took eight months to build the sand engine. dredges brought up material from the seabed ten kilometers offshore and spat it out here to create a huge depth of sediment as a peninsula in front of the original slender beach. twenty one and a half million cubic meters of sand were dumped here five times as much as would be usual in a standard shorter term sand replenishment operation. the plan is for the wind waves and currents to disperse the sand from here up and down t...