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New paper in Frontiers in Marine Science

We investigated how global warming and ocean acidification will alter the dispersal of stone crab larvae on the West Florida Shelf. We show that projected climate change will result in stone crabs moving north or into deeper waters. Crab populations will become more fragmented and less resilient, hence impacting the fishing industry.

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.

New paper in Marine Pollution Bulletin

We estimated the environmental impact of a major open-cut coal mine project located 10 km away from the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. We show that sediments released by mining activities could have a profound and long-distance effect on nearby marine ecosystems such as seagrass meadows and a dugong sanctuary.

New paper in Ocean Modelling

We coupled our multi-scale ocean model SLIM with the coastal wave model SWAN to investigate wave-flow interactions during hurricane Irma (Sept. 2017) and their impact on transport processes. Coral reefs along the Florida Keys offered great (and cheap!) coastal protection by strongly reducing the wave energy.

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.

My group is interested in mathematical modelling of complex systems, with applications in marine ecology, coastal oceanography, biomedicine and more! We develop a range of different models including multi-scale hydrodynamic models and high-order models of fractional diffusion. These models allow us to achieve unprecedented accuracy to bring new insight into the physical and biological processes at play.

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Publications

Google Scholar bibliometric data: 1852 citations; h-index = 26.

Sampurno, J., Vallaeys, V., Ardianto, R., & Hanert, E. (2022). Integrated hydrodynamic and machine learning models for compound flooding prediction in a data-scarce estuarine delta. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 29(3), 301–315. https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-29-301-2022 Download
Alaerts, L., Dobbelaere, T., Gravinese, P. M., & Hanert, E. (2022). Climate Change Will Fragment Florida Stone Crab Communities. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 839767. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.839767 Download
Sampurno, J., Vallaeys, V., Ardianto, R., & Hanert, E. (2022). Modeling interactions between tides, storm surges, and river discharges in the Kapuas River delta. Biogeosciences, 19(10), 2741–2757. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2741-2022 Download
Saint-Amand, A., Grech, A., Choukroun, S., & Hanert, E. (2022). Quantifying the environmental impact of a major coal mine project on the adjacent Great Barrier Reef ecosystems. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 179, 113656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113656 Download
Dobbelaere, T., Holstein, D. M., Muller, E. M., Gramer, L. J., McEachron, L., Williams, S. D., & Hanert, E. (2022). Connecting the Dots: Transmission of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease From the Marquesas to the Dry Tortugas. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 778938. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.778938 Download
Farhadi, A., & Hanert, E. (2022). Front Propagation of Exponentially Truncated Fractional-Order Epidemics. Fractal and Fractional, 6(2), 53. https://doi.org/10.3390/fractalfract6020053 Download
Lopez‐Gamundi, C., Dobbelaere, T., Hanert, E., Harris, P. M., Eberli, G., & Purkis, S. J. (2022). Simulating sedimentation on the Great Bahama Bank – Sources, sinks and storms. Sedimentology, 69(7), 2693–2714. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13020 Download
Dobbelaere, T., Curcic, M., Le Hénaff, M., & Hanert, E. (2022). Impacts of Hurricane Irma (2017) on wave-induced ocean transport processes. Ocean Modelling, 171, 101947. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2022.101947 Download
Figueiredo, J., Thomas, C. J., Deleersnijder, E., Lambrechts, J., Baird, A. H., Connolly, S. R., & Hanert, E. (2022). Global warming decreases connectivity among coral populations. Nature Climate Change, 12, 83–87. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01248-7 Download
Farhadi, A., & Hanert, E. (2022). A fractional diffusion model of CD8+ T cells response to parasitic infection in the brain. Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena, 17, 3. https://doi.org/10.1051/mmnp/2022003 Download
Gonay, L., Spourquet, C., Baudoin, M., Lepers, L., Lemoine, P., Fletcher, A. G., Hanert, E., & Pierreux, C. E. (2021). Modelling of Epithelial Growth, Fission and Lumen Formation During Embryonic Thyroid Development: A Combination of Computational and Experimental Approaches. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2021.655862 Download
Vallaeys, V., Lambrechts, J., Delandmeter, P., Pätsch, J., Spitzy, A., Hanert, E., & Deleersnijder, E. (2021). Understanding the circulation in the deep, micro-tidal and strongly stratified Congo River estuary. Ocean Modelling, 101890. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2021.101890 Download
Duquesne, F., Vallaeys, V., Vidaurre, P. J., & Hanert, E. (2021). A coupled ecohydrodynamic model to predict algal blooms in Lake Titicaca. Ecological Modelling, 440, 109418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109418 Download

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