My name is Jana Cox and I undertook my PhD at UU from 2018-2022. I worked with the NKWK Rivers2Morrow (https://ncr-web.org/projects/rivers2morrow/) at Utrecht University project studying the response of the lower Rhine and Maas rivers to climate change and sea level rise. I am now continuing as a post doctoral researcher on the Rivers2morrow project focusing on upstream fluvial sediment distribution and the ultimate decline in sediment delivery to the delta over time. 

During my PhD I worked on the urban Rhine-Meuse delta, studying how dredging has created a negative sediment budget and how that will persist in the future. I focused on the role of sediment and sediment management and how sediment can be used to protect the Dutch coast against climate change impacts and the influence of ongoing dredging activites on sediment budgets. I looked at how sea-level rise will influence estuaries using the Metronome (Metronome Tidal Facility) . We also looked to solutions for urban deltas to raise land in the face of sea-level rise, so-called sedimentation enhancing strategies (WCFD Sedimentation Enhancing Strategies). I was also a member of Young Women of Geosciences (https://ywog.sites.uu.nl/) and Young Netherlands Centre for River Research (https://ncr-web.org/)

See a video about my PhD research here: