SANDTRACK

Funding: SandTrack Project, PTDC/CTA-GEO/31779/2017, funded by FEDER through COMPETE2020 - Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalization (POCI), and by national funds (OE) through FCT/MCTES.

Project Coordinator: Paulo Alves da Silva

Address: psilva@ua.pt

Scientific Coordinator: Paulo Alves da Silva and Rui Taborda

Objectives: Development of an innovative multidisciplinary approach combining the use of fluorescent and magnetic sand tracers, as well as numerical modelling, to monitor and quantify the sediment transport and to improve the efficiency of artificial nourishments of submerged beaches. This approach will be applied to the case study of the Costa Nova-Aveiro where shots of several million cubic meters are foreseen.

Financing Total: 239 275.13€ (Hydrographic Institute (IH): 27 687.00€)

Team IH: Aurora Rodrigues, Sandra Silva, Frederico Ferreira, João Duarte, Joaquim Pombo, Mónica Ribeiro, André Vinhas, Ana Filipa Fernandes

Status: Completed.

Website: Sandtrack Project

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