Reposted by Stuart G. PearsonJGR: Oceans @jgroceans.bsky.social · 17/11/2025The seabed rarely consists solely of bare sand: often other materials, such as shells are present. Kooistra et al., show shells have marked effects on bed roughness and sand transport 🐚 🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... 054
Stuart G. Pearson @coastallycurious.bsky.social · 17/11/2025She tells [us about] seashells [and how they affect sediment transport] on the seashore! 🐚🌊⛏️ Congratulations to @tjkooistra.bsky.social on her latest PhD paper in @jgroceans.bsky.social ! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.comHow Shells of Different Shapes Affect Current‐Driven Sand TransportSandy seabeds with shells require higher depth-averaged flows for initiation of motion of the sand than a bare sandy seabed Both round and elongated shells decrease bedload transport of sand up t... 032
Reposted by Stuart G. PearsonEos @eos.org · 28/09/2025You’ve heard that beavers are “nature’s engineers.” But Cretaceous dinosaurs might have engineered their ecosystems, too.eos.orgMove Over, Beavers. Dinosaurs Might Also Have Been Nature’s Engineers - EosLate Cretaceous dinosaurs may have cut back vegetation, creating large floodplains. When the asteroid hit, those floodplains became forests, a new study argues. 0144
Reposted by Stuart G. Pearsonamy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like 36191718726
Stuart G. Pearson @coastallycurious.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Is your reservoir full of sediment? Patricia Buffon has a solution for you! Take a look at her awesome new paper, which uses lab experiments to investigate scour and sediment transport by jets: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.comEvolution of Erosion and Deposition Induced by an Impinging Jet to Manage SedimentDirect and indirect transport modes for suspended sediment from the scour hole were identified and quantified Self-similarity of longitudinal bed profiles is demonstrated for the erosion and depo... 011
Stuart G. Pearson @coastallycurious.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Check out Tjitske Kooistra's first PhD paper! 020
Stuart G. Pearson @coastallycurious.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Where do the sand grains from a beach nourishment go? Check out Bart van Westen's latest paper on the application of our SedTRAILS model to the Sand Engine: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @deltares.bsky.social @tudelftceg.bsky.socialnature.comLagrangian modelling reveals sediment pathways at evolving coasts - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Lagrangian modelling reveals sediment pathways at evolving coasts 031
Reposted by Stuart G. PearsonTjitske Kooistra @tjkooistra.bsky.social · 26/03/2025We had lots of fun recording for our project TRAILS at Wageningen University (and on a “real” mudflat!), with my lovely project colleagues Anna-Maartje de Boer, Natascia Pannozzo and @coastallycurious.bsky.social 041
Reposted by Stuart G. PearsonTjitske Kooistra @tjkooistra.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Last week, I showed our research on sediment mixing by benthic animals at the Dutch Earth Sciences conference (NWO-NAC). I had interesting chats with geologists, learned a lot (amongst others about dinosaurs and plate tectonics😂) and won the second price with my poster! 051
Reposted by Stuart G. PearsonKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/03/2025The election has just been called for April 28. If you are a Canadian living outside the country, get your mail-in ballot here ASAP: travel.gc.ca/travelling/l...bbc.comCanada election live: Canadian PM Mark Carney calls snap electionCarney has asked the governor general to dissolve Parliament, launching an election campaign amid a trade war with the US. 18670402545
Stuart G. Pearson @coastallycurious.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Extremely proud of Gijs Hendrickx for successfully defending his PhD on Nature-based Solutions to Mitigate Salt Intrusion! resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:12e2617... 040
Stuart G. Pearson @coastallycurious.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Where does my sandcastle go when it washes away? In my favourite paper we see coasts as a connected network of sandy pathways. This approach helps us better understand and manage the sand that builds ecosystems and protects us against flooding! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.comSediment Connectivity: A Framework for Analyzing Coastal Sediment Transport PathwaysConnectivity schematizes sediment transport pathways as a directed graph (series of nodes and links) We present a novel application of graph theory and network analysis to characterize complex coas... 1103
Stuart G. Pearson @coastallycurious.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Hello to all the new folks on Bluesky! My name is Stuart and I'm a beach nerd! As a coastal engineer I try to keep people safe from coastal flooding using sand. Here is a silly little video explaining my research using only the 1000 most common words: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdJF...youtube.comKeeping our feet dry and safe from the big water by using lots of very tiny rocksYouTube video by Stuart Pearson 061
Reposted by Stuart G. PearsonJaap Nienhuis @changing-shores.bsky.social · 10/04/2024what 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! 021
Stuart G. Pearson @coastallycurious.bsky.social · 25/10/2023How can we ensure that vulnerable coasts and deltas stay robust to climate change? We need sediment! Come help us understand networks of coastal sediment pathways and connectivity as a PhD at TU Delft!! www.tudelft.nl/over-tu-delf...tudelft.nlJob details 010