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Jaap Nienhuis
Assistant Professor, Utrecht University
Professional Experience
Utrecht University
Assistant Professor
2019 - Present
Tulane University
Postdoc
2016 - 2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Graduate Student
2012 - 2016
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Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctorate
2016
Current Roles
Associate Editor
JGR Earth Surface Section
Honors & Awards
Publications
Gradual Inlet Expansion and Barrier Drowning Under Most Sea Level Rise Scenarios
The expected increase in rates of sea level rise during the 21st century and beyond may cause barrier islands to drown. Barrier drowning occurs due...
November 06, 2023
First‐Order River Delta Morphology Is Explained by the Sedim...
November 17, 2022
Increasing Wave Energy Moves Arctic Continental Shelves Towa...
September 07, 2022
AGU Abstracts
"Background rates" of Holocene deltaic shoreline change and potential implications for delta futures
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
coastal and estuarine hydrodynamics and sediment processes | 19 february 2024
Torbjorn E. Tornqvist, Melinda Quock, Jaap Nienhui...
Despite increasing concerns about the sustainability of delta plains due to global sea-level rise, relatively little effort has been made to mine the ...
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River deltas and sea-level rise
PREDICTING THE FATE OF RIVER DELTAS AND COASTAL WETLANDS: OBSERVATIONS, MODELING, AND EXPERIMENTATION II ORAL
earth and planetary surface processes | 13 december 2023
Jaap Nienhuis, Wonsuck Kim, Glenn A. Milne, Melind...
Sea-level change is a first-order control on delta morphodynamics, however, quantifying delta change under future sea-level rise remains difficult. He...
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Summertime sediment-transport dynamics on an arctic continental shelf
SEDIMENT DELIVERY, TRANSPORT, AND DEPOSITION IN COASTAL AND MARINE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS POSTER
ocean sciences | 13 december 2023
Emily Eidam, Caroline Cooper, Adrian Heath, Jaap N...
Sediment transport across continental shelves is routinely impacted by storms (which generate wave-driven resuspension and wind-driven currents), tide...
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Volunteer History
2019 - 2024
Associate Editor
JGR Earth Surface Section
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