About Marieke Eleveld
Marieke Eleveld (PhD MSc) is a senior advisor-researcher at Deltares since 2016. Currently at the department of Data Science and Water Quality. She is specialised in Remote Sensing and Modelling of Delta and Coastal Systems. From a wealth of satellite observations, Marieke Eleveld is rendering earth system information, which she combines with insights from modelling. Her work contributes to the Deltares missions on Healthy water systems and Flood safety.
Marieke advances climate-resilient, healthy water systems, by:
- Characterising cohesive sediment transport processes from satellite derived suspended matter concentrations in shelf seas, river plumes (ROFIs), estuaries and shallow lakes
- Classifying observations of colour and deriving chlorophyll concentrations, and quantifying the phenology of phytoplankton and cyanobacteria blooms in coastal waters and lakes to assess trophic state, carrying capacity and biodiversity
- Mapping and tracking floating layers and materials, such as plastics.
Marieke improves flood safety by:
- Monitoring and modelling of marine and aeolian sediment transport
- Assessments of satellite derived bathymetry, topography, waves and water levels
- Modelling of extreme sea levels and storm impact on coastal erosion and flood hazards
- Investigating the vulnerability of subsiding deltas, resilience of beach-dune coasts, and river ice monitoring for flood early warning
Marieke Eleveld was previously a senior research scientist at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) - VU Amsterdam, and postdoc at JRC – the European Commission’s Science Service. She studied physical geography at the University of Amsterdam (MSc, PhD). During her MSc, she did a traineeship in hydrology and geomorphology at the University of Strasbourg. During her PhD, she worked on coastal remote sensing, dynamic modelling with spatial data and geo-information technology at ITC – University of Twente.
Marieke Eleveld supervises MSc thesis students and PhD candidates on topics such as coastal satellite oceanography and geodata science as adjunct research scientist (guest) at Delft University of Technology.
Publications
Projects
MSFD-Eutro
A demonstration of the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) for Region European North-West Shelf Seas and Area of benefit Coastal and Marine Environment – Water quality.
21 September 2017JMP-EUNOSAT: Coherent eutrophication assessments for the North Sea, using satellite data.
The JMP-EUNOSAT project has developed a new method for monitoring and assessment of pollution with nutrients (eutrophication). Excess nutrients stimulate algal growth, which can result in lack of oxygen and light under water for plants and animals. EU member states need to report every 6 years on the water quality of their seas for the Marine…
9 April 2019Detecting plastic waste from space
Deltares is working with the European Space Agency (ESA) and guest researchers from all over Europe to see whether plastics can be traced with microwave sensors that can be integrated in satellite instruments.
Spanjaards Duin dune area
Spanjaards Duin (40ha) is a new dune area, constructed in 2008/9 in front of the existing dunes of the Delfland coast near The Hague (the Netherlands). The area will compensate for predicted quality loss of rare and vulnerable dune habitats due to the extension of the Port of Rotterdam (Maasvlakte 2). Deltares has acted as advisor for…
10 August 2021New coastal elevation model
Scientists at Deltares have developed a cutting-edge global coastal Digital Terrain Model (DTM) at 1 arc-second (~30 m) resolution. In our work, we extensively use elevation models as input for our numerical models, but we noticed that current, freely available elevation models are not accurate enough for our purposes.