Information
- Type
- Organization
- Type
- https://marineinfo.org/ns/institutes/levelnames#Department
- Type
- https://marineinfo.org/ns/institutes/types#Scientific
- Name
- Departement voor Fysische Geografie, Coastal and River System
- Name
- Department of Physical Geography@en
- Acronym
- UU-UU-FG
- Parent institute
-
Universiteit Utrecht
- Address
- Pobox 80.115, 3508 TC Utrecht, Netherlands
- Contact numbers
-
- Telephone
- +31-(0)30-25 32 749
- Email
- p.hoekstra@geo.uu.nl
- Location
-
- latitude
- 52.0915376
- longitude
- 5.1192476
- Description @en
- The group combines process-geomorphological, geographical and Quaternary geological approaches, bridging between measurement timescales of seconds to days and depositional record timescales of years to millennia, up to glacial cycles. Through measurements, modelling and geological and historic reconstructions, we study: (1) River valleys and river mouths: deltas, lagoons and estuaries, fluvial processes and sedimentology, morphological and depositional evolution of fluvial landscapes, under natural and human managed conditions. (2) Coastal zones: Coasts and the continental shelf bed at the interface of land and ocean, shallow marine sediment transport and coastal geomorphology. (3) Recent and Past Climate Change from field measurements and sedimentary records in active depositional landscapes.
Expertise
- Basal peat
- Beach nourishment
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 826
- Beach survey
- Beaches
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 835
- Bedforms
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 854
- Clays
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 1584
- Climate change
- defined term set: CSA Technology Research Database Master Thesaurus
- term code: 68517
- Climate change
- defined term set: Transportation Research Thesaurus
- term code: 95977
- Coastal barrier
- Coastal dunes
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 1633
- Coastal peat
- Compaction
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 1732
- Currents
- defined term set: CSA Technology Research Database Master Thesaurus
- term code: 79379
- Dunes
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 2533
- Eemian
- Estuaries
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 2895
- Estuary
- Eustacy
- Glacial
- Gradient
- Groundwater
- defined term set: CSA Technology Research Database Master Thesaurus
- term code: 61265
- Groundwater
- defined term set: Transportation Research Thesaurus
- term code: 99615
- Groundwater
- defined term set: CAB Thesaurus
- term code: 141951
- Holocene
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 4023
- Hydraulics
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 4087
- Ice ages
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 4167
- Interglacial
- Isostacy
- Lagoons
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 4590
- Mud
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 5376
- Neotectonics
- Peat
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 6052
- River mouth
- Roughness
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7062
- Saalian
- Sand
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7154
- Sea level
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7262
- Sea level rise
- Sedimentation
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7401
- Silt
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7663
- Storm surges
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 9693
- Storms
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 8055
- Subsidence
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 8156
- Teaching
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 8378
- Tidal flats
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 8580
- Tidal inlets
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 8584
- Tides
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 8613
- Training
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 8690
- Transgressions
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 8705
- Velocity
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 8953
- Waves
- defined term set: CSA Technology Research Database Master Thesaurus
- term code: 63037
- Waves
- defined term set: Transportation Research Thesaurus
- term code: 101262
- Weichselian
- geographic terms
- ANE, France, Nord, Dunkerque
- ANE, France, Nord, Pas-de-Calais
- ANE, Netherlands, Egmond
- ANE, Netherlands, IJsselmeer L.
- ANE, Netherlands, Meuse estuary
- ANE, Netherlands, Noordwijk
- ANE, Netherlands, Oosterschelde
- ANE, Netherlands, Rhine estuary
- ANE, Netherlands, Rhine R.
- ANE, Netherlands, Texel
- ANE, Netherlands, Westerschelde
- ANE, North Sea
- ANE, Scheldt Estuary
- ANE, Wadden Sea
- Belgium, Meuse R.
- Netherlands
- Netherlands, Zeeland