Stuart G. Pearson

Move Over, Beavers. Dinosaurs Might Also Have Been Nature’s Engineers - Eos Late Cretaceous dinosaurs may have cut back vegetation, creating large floodplains. When the asteroid hit, those floodplains became forests, a new study argues.

You’ve heard that beavers are “nature’s engineers.” But Cretaceous dinosaurs might have engineered their ecosystems, too.

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Evolution of Erosion and Deposition Induced by an Impinging Jet to Manage Sediment Direct and indirect transport modes for suspended sediment from the scour hole were identified and quantified Self-similarity of longitudinal bed profiles is demonstrated for the erosion and depo...

Is your reservoir full of sediment? Patricia Buffon has a solution for you! Take a look at her awesome new paper, which uses lab experiments to investigate scour and sediment transport by jets: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Check out Tjitske Kooistra's first PhD paper!

Lagrangian modelling reveals sediment pathways at evolving coasts - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Lagrangian modelling reveals sediment pathways at evolving coasts

Where do the sand grains from a beach nourishment go? Check out Bart van Westen's latest paper on the application of our SedTRAILS model to the Sand Engine: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We had lots of fun recording for our project TRAILS at Wageningen University (and on a “real” mudflat!), with my lovely project colleagues Anna-Maartje de Boer, Natascia Pannozzo and @coastallycurious.bsky.social

Last week, I showed our research on sediment mixing by benthic animals at the Dutch Earth Sciences conference (NWO-NAC). I had interesting chats with geologists, learned a lot (amongst others about dinosaurs and plate tectonics😂) and won the second price with my poster!

Canada election live: Canadian PM Mark Carney calls snap election Carney has asked the governor general to dissolve Parliament, launching an election campaign amid a trade war with the US.

The election has just been called for April 28.

If you are a Canadian living outside the country, get your mail-in ballot here ASAP:

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Extremely proud of Gijs Hendrickx for successfully defending his PhD on Nature-based Solutions to Mitigate Salt Intrusion! resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:12e2617...

Where does my sandcastle go when it washes away? In my favourite paper we see coasts as a connected network of sandy pathways. This approach helps us better understand and manage the sand that builds ecosystems and protects us against flooding! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

YouTube video by Stuart Pearson Keeping our feet dry and safe from the big water by using lots of very tiny rocks

Hello to all the new folks on Bluesky! My name is Stuart and I'm a beach nerd! As a coastal engineer I try to keep people safe from coastal flooding using sand. Here is a silly little video explaining my research using only the 1000 most common words: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdJF...

Belem, Brazil, Photo credit: Eduardo Brondizio

what does the future hold for river deltas? we have 3(!) PhD positions open at UU to work on delta adaptation. Come work with me, Frances Dunn, Marjolijn Haasnoot, and Hans Middelkoop.

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I'm very excited about it, please spread the news!

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How can we ensure that vulnerable coasts and deltas stay robust to climate change? We need sediment! Come help us understand networks of coastal sediment pathways and connectivity as a PhD at TU Delft!! www.tudelft.nl/over-tu-delf...