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Stuart G. Pearson

@coastallycurious.bsky.social
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I like beaches. A lot. Canadian coastal researcher 🇨🇦 🌊 loving life in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 🚲 and following sand around🔎 Assistant prof @ TU Delft

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JGR: Oceans @jgroceans.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The 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/...
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Stuart G. Pearson @coastallycurious.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
She 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/...
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How Shells of Different Shapes Affect Current‐Driven Sand Transport
Sandy 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...
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Eos @eos.org · 28/09/2025
You’ve heard that beavers are “nature’s engineers.” But Cretaceous dinosaurs might have engineered their ecosystems, too.
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Move Over, Beavers. Dinosaurs Might Also Have Been Nature’s Engineers - Eos
Late Cretaceous dinosaurs may have cut back vegetation, creating large floodplains. When the asteroid hit, those floodplains became forests, a new study argues.
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025
this 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
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
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Stuart G. Pearson @coastallycurious.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Is 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/...
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Evolution of Erosion and Deposition Induced by an Impinging Jet to Manage Sediment
Direct 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...
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Stuart G. Pearson @coastallycurious.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Check out Tjitske Kooistra's first PhD paper!
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Stuart G. Pearson @coastallycurious.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Where 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.social
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Lagrangian modelling reveals sediment pathways at evolving coasts - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Lagrangian modelling reveals sediment pathways at evolving coasts
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Tjitske Kooistra @tjkooistra.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We 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
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Tjitske Kooistra @tjkooistra.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Last 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!
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/03/2025
The 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...
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Canada election live: Canadian PM Mark Carney calls snap election
Carney has asked the governor general to dissolve Parliament, launching an election campaign amid a trade war with the US.
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Stuart G. Pearson @coastallycurious.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Extremely proud of Gijs Hendrickx for successfully defending his PhD on Nature-based Solutions to Mitigate Salt Intrusion! resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:12e2617...
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Stuart G. Pearson @coastallycurious.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Where 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/...
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Sediment Connectivity: A Framework for Analyzing Coastal Sediment Transport Pathways
Connectivity 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...
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Stuart G. Pearson @coastallycurious.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Hello 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...
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Keeping our feet dry and safe from the big water by using lots of very tiny rocks
YouTube video by Stuart Pearson
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Jaap Nienhuis @changing-shores.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
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!
Belem, Brazil,  Photo credit: Eduardo Brondizio
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Stuart G. Pearson @coastallycurious.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
How 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...
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