Experience

Stichting RAVON

• Netherlands
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assessing/explaining the importance of shallow zones (<1m) as nurseries for different fish guilds.

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Part of project: "Een Zegen in de Delta". Five years of abundance data on juvenile fish in the delta will be analyzed in R-statistics, with an emphasis on currents and hydrodynamics. Of a multitude of environmental variables, I will identify which ones are driving the presence of my target species through moddeling (GAM). Part of project: "Een Zegen in de Delta". Five years of abundance data on juvenile fish in the delta will be analyzed in R-statistics, with an emphasis on currents and hydrodynamics. Of a multitude of environmental variables, I will identify which ones are driving the presence of my target species through moddeling (GAM).



Wageningen Marine Research

• Netherlands
• Research Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Creating a comparitative ecomorphological analysis on local freshwater fishes and invaders (Thesis)

  • May 2022 - Dec 2022

  Through using the ecomorphological approach (meaning that the morphology of a species either enables or limits its function in an ecosystem), different native and invasive freshwater fish species were analyzed on their functional feeding traits. The final goal was to identify if functional feeding traits alone can be used as markers of high invasive potential invaders. Through using the ecomorphological approach (meaning that the morphology of a species either enables or limits its function in an ecosystem), different native and invasive freshwater fish species were analyzed on their functional feeding traits. The final goal was to identify if functional feeding traits alone can be used as markers of high invasive potential invaders.



Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences

• Netherlands
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Graduation project: bottleneck analysis

  • Apr 2018 - Dec 2018

  Producing a bottleneck analysis on pelagic fish species utilizing the Wadden Sea, taking Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) as a keystone species. The outcome was used by the Swimway Action Programme (Common Wadden Sea Secretariat) to aid future management and sustainable exploitation of Atlantic herring stocks, and manage other pelagic species in the area. Producing a bottleneck analysis on pelagic fish species utilizing the Wadden Sea, taking Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) as a keystone species. The outcome was used by the Swimway Action Programme (Common Wadden Sea Secretariat) to aid future management and sustainable exploitation of Atlantic herring stocks, and manage other pelagic species in the area.



Wageningen Marine Research

• Netherlands
• Research Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Mangrove restoration research (intern)

  • Sep 2017 - Jan 2018

  Establishing a planting experiment to assess the best coastal environment for the planting of two local species of mangroves (A. marina and R. mucronata), including small-scale research on the link between vegetation coverage and biodiversity within the planting plots. Establishing a planting experiment to assess the best coastal environment for the planting of two local species of mangroves (A. marina and R. mucronata), including small-scale research on the link between vegetation coverage and biodiversity within the planting plots.



NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

• Netherlands
• Research Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Visualizing biodiveristy around oyster reefs

  • Aug 2015 - Jan 2016

  Monitoring of biodiversity around oyster reefs using Baited Remote Underwater Video (BRUV) data in the Oosterschelde, the Netherlands. By comparing this data with data collected on bare sandy substrate, the ecological value of oyster reefs was assessed within the Oosterschelde.

• Monitoring the effect of sediment loss on benthos biodiversity

  • Aug 2015 - Jan 2016

  6-months of monitoring bivalve stocks on a, by "sand hunger" (sediment loss) afflicted, mudflat. By using data collected in previous years, together with my own collected data, an overview of changes in species' distibutions was achieved.