Emmanuel Hanert – Professor of Environmental Modelling

New paper in Marine Pollution Bulletin

We explicitly represented the nearly 2000 pillars of the Jaber Al-Ahmad causeway in our ocean model SLIM to assess their impact on the ocean circulation and water residence time in Kuwait Bay.

New paper in Marine Pollution Bulletin

10 years ago, the stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) was first observed off Miami, devastating coral reefs in Florida and the Caribbean. Our study suggests that improper dredging at the Port of Miami may have contributed to the onset of this devastating epidemic.

New paper in Global Change Biology

We investigated the impact of hurricane Irma on coral connectivity and coral disease dispersal in Florida. While being brief events, hurricanes deeply change the ocean circulation patterns, strongly increase the probability of long-distance exchanges and accelerate the spread of coral diseases.

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.

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.