Anouk Blauw, prediction and monitoring of (harmful) algal blooms

Anouk Blauw works at the department Aquatic Microbiology on a PhD study titled: "Integrated Monitoring of Carrying Capacity in Coastal Waters". The aim of this study is to provide guidelines for an optimal monitoring strategy for Dutch coastal waters, based on understanding of the ecosystem. Research questions include:

• What are the typical temporal and spatial scales of phytoplankton dynamics and related environmental parameters?

• How can information from different sources be integrated to reconstruct trends and natural variability in phytoplankton and carrying capacity. Information sources of interest include ship-based monitoring, remote sensing, buoy data, ferryboxes and numerical models.

Before starting this PhD project, she worked for 11 years at Deltares (formerly WL | Delft Hydraulics) as researcher and consultant on a wide range of projects: model studies on eutrophication, harmful algal bloom prediction and microphytobenthos modeling.

Publications

• Blauw AN, Beninc à E, Laane RWPM, Greenwood N, Huisman J (2012) Dancing with the Tides: Fluctuations of Coastal Phytoplankton Orchestrated by Different Oscillatory Modes of the Tidal Cycle. PLoS ONE: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049319
• Blauw AN, Los FJ, Huisman J and Peperzak L (2010) Nuisance foam events and Phaeocystis globosa blooms in Dutch coastal waters analyzed with fuzzy logic. J. Mar. Syst. 83: 115-126
• Blauw AN, Los HFJ, Bokhorst M, Erftemeijer PLA (2009) GEM: a generic ecological model for estuaries and coastal waters. Hydrobiologia 618: 175-198
• Blauw AN, Anderson P, Estrada M, Johansen M, Laanemets J, Peperzak L, Purdie D, Raine R, Vahtera E (2006) The use of fuzzy logic for data analysis and modelling of European harmful algal blooms: results of the HABES project. African Journal of Marine Science 28: 365-369
• H.J. van der Woerd, A. Blauw, L. Peperzak, R. Pasterkamp, S. Peters (2011). Analysis of the spatial evolution of the 2003 algal bloom in the Voordelta (North Sea). J. Sea Res. 65: 195 - 204
• Li H, Arias M, Blauw A, Los H, Mynett AE and Peters S (2010) Enhancing generic ecological model for short-term prediction of Southern North Sea algal dynamics with remote sensing images. Ecol. Mod. 221: 2435-2446
• Salacinska K, El Serafy GY, Los FJ, Blauw A (2010) Sensitivity analysis of the two dimensional application of the Generic Ecological Model (GEM) to algal bloom prediction in the North Sea. Ecological Modelling 221:178-190
• Widdows J, Blauw A, Heip CHR , Herman PMJ, Lucas CH, Middelburg JJ, Schmidt S, Brinsley MD, Twisk F, Verbeek H (2004)Role of physical and biological processes in sediment dynamics of a tidal flat in Westerschelde Estuary, SW Netherlands. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 274:41-56

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