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New paper in PLoS ONE

We investigated the impact of 40 years of land reclamation projects in Doha Bay (Qatar) on the currents dynamics and on water residence time. Some particular projects, like The Pearl, significantly increased the time needed to flush the Bay.

New paper in Ocean Modelling

We investigated ocean models sensitivity to spatial resolution in coral reef environments. For accuracy, use resolutions finer than the reef scale, typically 250-500m.

New paper in Scientific Reports

We investigated the sensitivity of coral connectivity estimates to the underlying biophysical model resolution and show that reef‑scale recommendations can only be made with models not exceeding ~500 m resolution.

New paper in Nature Sustainability

We investigated the vulnerability of Qatar's desalination and LNG export facilities to oil spills and identified a sea area covering ~15% of Qatar's territorial waters from where an oil spill has a high probability of reaching a sensitive coastal infrastructure.

New paper in Nature Climate Change

We investigated how global warming is changing connectivity between coral populations. By increasing larval mortality and reducing competency duration, it will reduce inter-reef connectivity, hampering recovery after disturbances and reducing the spread of warm-adapted genes.

SLIM - A multi-scale model of the land-sea continuum

SLIM is our in-house unstructured-mesh hydrodynamic model. It can seamlessly simulate flows from the river to the coastal ocean. It relies on the Discontinuous Galerkin finite element method to achieve unprecedented accuracy, even for very complex coastlines and bathymetry.

SeaLab - Coastal modeling in the cloud

SeaLab is a web platform that allows you to run state-of-the-art open-source models of the ocean circulation, waves, oil spills, sediments in the cloud.