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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 Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

We applied our multiscale ocean model SLIM to the Persian/Arabian Gulf and show how it can seamlessly bridge the gap between the circulation in the entire Gulf and its interactions with artificial structures down to a scale of a few tens of meters. Our model has the potential to greatly improve the environmental impact assessment of coastal developments in the Gulf area.

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 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 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.

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 the development and application of multiscale coastal ocean models to simulate the dynamics of currents and waves, and the transport of oil, sediments, larvae and other biological materials. These models allow us to achieve unprecedented accuracy to bring new insight into the physical and biological processes at play. We are particularly interested in marine connectivity, environmental impact assessment and coastal vulnerability. 

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Recent publications

Google Scholar bibliometric data: 2047 citations; h-index = 26.

Purkis, S. J., Oehlert, A. M., Dobbelaere, T., Hanert, E., & Harris, P. (Mitch). (2023). Always a White Christmas in the Bahamas: temperature and hydrodynamics localize winter mud production on Great Bahama Bank. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 93(3), 145–160. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2022.066 Download
Anselain, T., Heggy, E., Dobbelaere, T., & Hanert, E. (2023). Qatar Peninsula’s vulnerability to oil spills and its implications for the global gas supply. Nature Sustainability, 6, 273–283. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-01037-w Download
King, S., Saint-Amand, A., Walker, B. K., Hanert, E., & Figueiredo, J. (2023). Larval dispersal patterns and connectivity of Acropora on Florida’s Coral Reef and its implications for restoration. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 1038463. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1038463 Download
Sampurno, J., Ardianto, R., & Hanert, E. (2023). Integrated machine learning and GIS-based bathtub models to assess the future flood risk in the Kapuas River Delta, Indonesia. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 25(1), 113–125. https://doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2022.106 Download
Hanert, E., Mohammed, A. V., Veerasingam, S., Dobbelaere, T., Vallaeys, V., & Vethamony, P. (2023). A multiscale ocean modelling system for the central Arabian/Persian Gulf: From regional to structure scale circulation patterns. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 282, 108230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2023.108230 Download
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
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
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

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