Barend van Maanen

University of Exeter | UoE · Department of Geography

Mapping of subtidal banks in mud-dominated coastal systems is crucial as they influence not only shoreline and ecosystem dynamics but also economic activities and livelihoods of local communities. Due to associated spatiotemporal variations in suspended particulate matter concentrations, subtidal mudbanks are often confined by diffuse and rapidly c...

Mangrove forests are valuable coastal ecosystems that have been shown to persist on muddy intertidal flats through bio-morphodynamic feedbacks. However, the role of coastal conditions on mangrove behavior remains uncertain. This study conducts numerical experiments to systematically explore the effects of tidal range, small wind waves, sediment sup...

Coastal wetlands fulfil important functions for biodiversity conservation and coastal protection, which are inextricably linked to typical morphological features like tidal channels. Channel network configurations in turn are shaped by bio-geomorphological feedbacks between vegetation, hydrodynamics and sediment transport. This study investigates t...

For the development of climate‐resilient coastal management strategies, which focus on challenges in the decades to come, it is critical to incorporate spatial and temporal variability of coastline changes. This is particularly true for the mud‐dominated coastline of Suriname, part of the Guianas, where migrating subtidal mudbanks cause a cyclic in...

Worldwide, many tidal basins associated with barrier coasts have infilled over the past millennia due to the combination of sediment supply, wave‐tidal sediment transport, and eco‐engineering effects of vegetation. However, the biogeomorphological interactions between saltmarsh and the morphodynamics of an entire coastal barrier system are poorly u...

Mangroves play an important role in protecting coasts against wave energy and storms. Mangrove ecosystems provide important habitats for fauna and flora and are an important carbon sink. Loss of mangroves forest may lead to enhanced coastal erosion. Mangroves are complex ecosystems and processes of settling and development are not fully understood....

Mangrove forests are valuable ecosystems, but their extent and diversity are increasingly threatened by sea-level rise and anthropogenic pressures. Here we develop a bio-morphodynamic model that captures the interaction between multiple mangrove species and hydro-sedimentary processes across a dynamic coastal profile. Numerical experiments are cond...

In coastal systems occupied by large clusters of pond aquaculture farms, hydro-sedimentary processes may be impacted by the combination of water management strategies that are individually performed by each cultivation unit. In this study, a numerical model was used to evaluate 100-year morphological alterations in two different idealized coastal l...

Many of the world’s major river systems seemingly have one or a few disproportionally large meanders, with tight bends, in the fluvial-tidal transition (e.g., the Thames in the UK, and the Salmon River in Canada). However, quantitative studies on meanders have so far primarily focused on rivers without tidal influence or on small tidal meanders wit...

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The presence of mangrove-belts has been critical towards reducing flooding risk and maintaining valuable ecosystem services. However, anticipated sea-level-rise (SLR) scenarios pose questions on the resilience of mangrove-belts and the vulnerability of associated coastal environments. This study aims to fundamentally determine the bio-physical proc...

Understanding estuarine hydrodynamics and sediment dynamics is of key importance to provide the foundation for sound management of these coastal systems. Turbidity maxima, which are zones of elevated suspended sediment concentration (SSC), are of particular interest as they control biogeochemical cycling and affect the overall environmental quality...

Vegetated foreshores, e.g. mangroves and salt marshes, are critical towards reducing flooding risk. • They maintain valuable ecosystem services. • They allow for a flexible and adaptive response to climate change by: • Attenuating wave energy, • Stabilizing and heightening the foreshore at a rate that matches or exceeds that of SLR. • However over...

The aim of this study is to understand the tidal characteristics in the radial sand ridges area (South Yellow Sea, China) considering the most adverse metrological and hydrodynamic condition. Based on data analysis, at least 30% of the annual highest tidal levels in the South Yellow Sea are caused by the combination of storm surge and astronomical...

Estuaries and tidal embayments are partly enclosed coastal bodies of water with a free connection to the open sea at their tidal inlet and with minimal (tidal embayments) or substantial fluvial input (estuaries). Their tidal inlets can only remain open over multiple centuries to millennia when (1) the formation of accommodation space exceeds infill...

Coastal and shoreline management increasingly needs to consider morphological change occurring at decadal to centennial timescales, especially that related to climate change and sea-level rise. This requires the development of morphological models operating at a mesoscale, defined by time and length scales of the order 101 to 102 years and 101 to 1...

As geomorphologists embrace ever more sophisticated theoretical frameworks that shift from simple notions of evolution towards single steady equilibria to recognise the possibility of multiple response pathways and outcomes, morphodynamic modellers are facing the problem of how to keep track of an ever-greater number of system feedbacks. Within coa...

The iCOASST project is developing new and improved methods to predict decadal coastal geomorphic evolution with the overall aim to improve erosion and flood risk management. The approach is based on a framework that develops a system-level understanding of the coast and combines: (1) new methods for system-level analysis and mapping of coast, estua...

An ecomorphodynamic model was developed to study how Avicennia marina mangroves influence channel network evolution in sandy tidal embayments. The model accounts for the effects of mangrove trees on tidal flow patterns and sediment dynamics. Mangrove growth is in turn controlled by hydrodynamic conditions. The presence of mangroves was found to enh...

The iCOASST project is developing new and improved methods to predict decadal geomorphic evolution for coastal erosion and flood risk management. The project is based on a framework that links several components to develop a system-level understanding of this change as follows:: (1) new methods for system-level analysis and mapping of coast, estuar...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports reflect evolving attitudes in adapting to sea-level rise by taking a systems approach and recognizing that multiple responses exist to achieve a less hazardous coast.

La modélisation 3D de la turbidité en estuaire et les applications à des systèmes réels se sont beaucoup développées ces dernières années. Toutefois, si la validation du calcul hydrodynamique 3D est relativement aisée, la calibration sédimentaire est beaucoup plus compliquée. Pour ces raisons, encore peu de modélisations ont tenté de quantifier les...

Sea-level rise has a strong influence on tidal systems, and a major focus of climate change effect studies is to predict the future state of these environmental systems. Here, we used a model to simulate the morphological evolution of tidal embayments and to explore their response to a rising sea level. The model was first used to reproduce the for...

We present a numerical model that simulates morphological change as a result of the interactions between hydrodynamics, sediment transport and bed elevation change. Numerical simulations indicate that these morphodynamic interactions can lead to the initiation of tidal channels and potentially give rise to large-scale channel networks. We perform a...

An artificial neural network (ANN) was developed to predict the depth-integrated alongshore suspended sediment transport rate using 4 input variables (water depth, wave height and period, and alongshore velocity). The ANN was trained and validated using a dataset obtained on the intertidal beach of Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands. Root-mean-square...

The performance of two well-known equations to predict the depth-averaged alongshore suspended sediment flux [Van Rijn, L.C., 1984. Sediment transport, part II: suspended load transport. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 110, 1613–1641; and Bailard, J.A., 1981. An energetics total load sediment transport model for a plane sloping beach. Journal of G...

We observed the onshore migration (3.5 m/day) of a nearshore sandbar at Tairua Beach, New Zealand during 4 days of low-energy wave conditions. The morphological observations, together with concurrent measurements of waves and suspended sediment concentrations, were used to test a coupled, wave-averaged, cross-shore model. Because of the coarse bed...

Biomorphodynamic interactions, the feedback loops that operate between physical processes, biology and morphology, affect the long-term evolution of estuaries. This paper outlines how consideration of such interactions and implementation through innovative modelling techniques can become the next crucial step needed to advance understanding of estu...