Jaap Nienhuis
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Jaap Nienhuis
@changing-shores.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Utrecht University. Interested in coastal morphodynamic models and hazards such as sea level rise, erosion, and flooding.
Come share your #delta news at the @agu.org annual meeting! Abstracts due July 30th.

w/ Alex Christensen, Yiyang Xu, Marisa Repasch, and myself.
July 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The global response of deltas to river sediment supply changes is 6 years.

Cool new delta paper in @nature.com Communications, led by postdoc Jie Wang!

open access link here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A pebble of geomorphologists
A mantle of geodynamicists

A wave of seismologists
A plate of tectonophyscists

A stratum of sedimentologists…
June 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Join us tomorrow Thu. May 8 at 16:00 CEST for a talk by Jaap Nienhuis @changing-shores.bsky.social :

Global Delta Morphodynamics: why and how?

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Landscapes Live is a weekly online seminar series freely accessible to the international scientific community interested in various aspects of geomorphology. Our talks take place on Zoom every Thursda...
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May 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Turns out there's a #river here! 😆 OCB workshops are more fun with field trips - great tour of LSU Ctr for River Studies & impressive lower #MissRiver physical model #LeakyDeltas
March 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
#PhD and #postdoc openings at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social ! Come join our group to study the life expectancies of river deltas across the globe!

Apply here: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
February 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A couple more days to apply for the PhD position in our lab, closing December 13!

Come join us! Utrecht is a wonderful city and we have an amazing team on coastal geomorphology and adaptation, with @marjolijnhaasnoot.bsky.social, Frances Dunn, Hans Middelkoop, and others!

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
PhD Position on Coastal Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise
Join our team as a PhD-candidate and work on coastal adaptation of the Dutch-German-Danish Wadden Islands!
www.uu.nl
December 9, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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The application window for ESPIn 2025 opens today!
🌎 Are you an early career researcher keen on Earth surface processes? Want to learn about numerical modeling & software development?

Apply for the *free* @csdms.bsky.social ESPIn immersive training experience May 5-12, 2025 in Boulder Colorado. Apply starting 02 Dec buff.ly/40Uefwu
December 2, 2024 at 5:39 PM
yes a great opportunity to join our team and be in Europe (and not the USA) in the coming 4 years!
November 20, 2024 at 2:17 AM
what does the future hold for river deltas? we have 3(!) PhD positions open at UU to work on delta adaptation. Come work with me, Frances Dunn, Marjolijn Haasnoot, and Hans Middelkoop.

uu.nl/en/organisat...

I'm very excited about it, please spread the news!
April 10, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Calling PhD students!!
NSF International Research Experience in the Netherlands. 2 weeks of hands-on classroom, modeling (Delft3D), laboratory, and field training + enrichment activities on Dutch coastal management. App is due Jan 26! t.co/aeZea8NNZe
December 15, 2023 at 5:22 PM
Arrived in San Francisco and very happy to be at AGU again, talking about deltas!
December 10, 2023 at 10:11 PM
Grant funded! #finally
November 17, 2023 at 2:12 PM
check out this new paper from Laura Portos-Amill, from when she was an MSc student working with me and Huib de Swart at UU.

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

She put really nice new inlet physics in the barrier island model BRIE, to study how inlets expand from SLR.
November 9, 2023 at 11:06 AM