We describe a novel biotope at 633 to 762 m depth on a vertical wall in the Whittard Canyon, an extensive canyon system reaching from the shelf to the deep sea on Ireland's continental margin. We explored this wall with an ROV and compiled a photomosaic of the habitat. The assemblage contributing to the biotope was dominated by large limid bivalves, Acesta excavata (mean shell height 10.4 cm), ...

Pumped groundwater sampling evaluations often assume that horizontal head gradients predominate and the sample comprises an average of water quality variation over the well screen interval weighted towards contributing zones of higher hydraulic conductivity (a permeability-weighted sample). However, the pumping rate used during sampling may not always be sufficient to overcome vertical flows in...

I would like to thank my graduation committee for their supervision, advice and support. I would also like to thank prof.dr.ir. L.C. van Rijn and dr.ir. J.C. Winterwerp for their valuable advices and dr.ir. M. van Koningsveld for providing the frame work of the model and for his comments and suggestions. Further I would like to thank my colleagues from the environmental department of Van Oord f...

Knowledge of Suspended Sediments Dynamics (SSD) across spatial scales is relevant for several fields of hydrology, such as eco-hydrological processes, the operation of hydrotechnical facilities and research on varved lake sediments as geoarchives. Understanding the connectivity of sediment flux between source areas in a catchment and sink areas in lakes or reservoirs is of primary importance to...

The objective of this study was to examine the interaction of cardiopulmonary bypass venous air with assisted venous drainage, focusing on its production of gaseous microemboli in the arterial line. An in-vitro recirculating cardiopulmonary bypass circuit containing fresh whole bovine blood was monitored with a pulsed-doppler microbubble detector. Air of specific amounts was injected into the v...

We have built a vertical seismometer that works based on the moiré technique. One grating is attached to the suspended mass and one to the frame of the instrument. The two gratings are in relative motion, and the resulting moiré pattern magnifies this motion. The intensity of a light beam passing through the moving moiré fringes changes with time, and a light detecting syst...

Due to the periodic movement of the piston in the reciprocating pump, the fluid will cause 8 pressure pulsation, and the vibration of the pipeline will lead to instrument distortion, pipe failure 9 and equipment damage. Therefore, it is necessary to study the vibration phenomena of the 10 reciprocating pump pipeline based on the pressure pulsation theory. This paper starts from the 11 reciproca...