Marloes van Ginkel

Marloes van Ginkel has joined TUD as a PhD researcher in July 2011. Her research focuses on the storage of fresh water in artificial islands for later recovery and use.

A fresh water lens may develop under newly constructed artificial islands in the ocean. The thus developed fresh water lens can be incorporated in the water supply system of the envisaged development on the island. The conditions for fresh water lens development can be optimized in artificial islands, since these islands are designed from scratch and the technical possibilities of dredging material and dredging equipment are large.

However, there is currently little guidance on methods for optimizing artificial islands for fresh water lens development. Marloes addresses this gap looking at the factors affecting 1) the development, 2) the exploitation and 3) the maintenance of fresh water lenses. 

Royal HaskoningDHV

Marloes is a part-time PhD researcher. She works as a consultant in water management at the Dutch engineering firm Royal HaskoningDHV (www.royalhaskoningdhv.com). She has been involved in several multidisciplinary projects as (geo)hydrologist and EIA expert both in the Netherlands and abroad. The added value of the combination of her work for Royal HaskoningDHV with her PhD research at TUD is on linking practice and state of the art scientific knowledge. And that is the challenge!

Royal HaskoningDHV

Marloes is a part-time PhD researcher. She works as a consultant in water management at the Dutch engineering firm Royal HaskoningDHV (www.royalhaskoningdhv.com). She has been involved in several multidisciplinary projects as (geo)hydrologist and EIA expert both in the Netherlands and abroad. The added value of the combination of her work for Royal HaskoningDHV with her PhD research at TUD is on linking practice and state of the art scientific knowledge. And that is the challenge!

Publications in international peer-reviewed journals

M. van Ginkel, Th. N. Olsthoorn and M. Bakker (2013). A new operational paradigm for small-scale ASR in a saline aquifer. Groundwater (2014) 52(5):685-93, DOI: 10.1111/gwat.12113
M. van Ginkel (2015): Aquifer design for freshwater storage and recovery in artificial islands and coastal expansions. Hydrogeology Journal (2015) 23: 615–618, DOI:10.1007/s10040-015-1245-2
M. van Ginkel, B. Des Tombe, Th.N. Olsthoorn, M. Bakker (2016). Small‑scale ASR between flow barriers in a saline aquifer. Groundwater (2016) 54:840-850, DOI:10.1111/gwat.12427
M. van Ginkel, Th. N. Olsthoorn and M. Bakker (2013). A new operational paradigm for small-scale ASR in a saline aquifer. Ground Water. (2014) 52(5):685-93, DOI: 10.1111/gwat.12113
M. van Ginkel (2015): Aquifer design for freshwater storage and recovery in artificial islands and coastal expansions. Hydrogeology Journal (2015) 23: 615–618, DOI 10.1007/s10040-015-1245-2 

Conference oral and poster presentations

M. van Ginkel, Th.N. Olsthoorn, M.L. Tijs (2014). Guiding principles for fresh water lens development, exploitation and maintenance in artificial islands. Salt Water Intrusion Meeting 2014 – oral presentation.
M. van Ginkel, Th. N. Olshoorn (2013). Freshwater storage in land reclamations; an integrated approach in an early design phase. International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge – oral presentation.
M. van Ginkel, Th. N. Olshoorn, and B.F. des Tombe (2012). Using density difference to store fresh water in saline subsurface. Salt Water Intrusion Meeting 2012 – oral presentation.
B.F. Des Tombe, M. van Ginkel, Th. N. Olsthoorn (2012). Aquifer Storage Recovery, The Storage Tank Method – Can the Storage Tank method increase the recovery efficiency? Salt Water Intrusion Meeting 2012 – poster (first price in poster contest).
M. van Ginkel, Th. N. Olshoorn, and B.F. des Tombe (2012). Using density difference to store fresh water in saline subsurface. EGU General Assembly 2012 – poster.
M. van Ginkel, Th. N. Olshoorn, E. Smidt, R. Darwish, S. Rashwan, (2010). Fresh Storage Saline Extraction (FSSE) wells, feasibility of freshwater storage in saline aquifer with a focus on the Red Sea coast, Egypt. ISMAR7 2010 – oral presentation.

Guest lectures

Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, October 16, 2010. Fresh Storage Saline Extraction (FSSE)-wells: small-scale buffering of desalinated water in saline aquifers

Theses

Ginkel, M. van, Olsthoorn, Th. N. (2008). Feasibility study for fresh water storage in saline aquifers by means of the FSSE-well, with a focus on the Red Sea coast, Egypt. TU Delft 

Supervised students

MSc
Marianne Tijs (2014): Optimisation of subsurface fresh water storage in new land developments – a case study of Pluit City in Jakarta Bay.
Joachim Schellekens (2014, ongoing): Socio-economic study on the effects of a flood on the urban poor – a case study in Jakarta.

BSc
Bas des Tombe (2013): Finding a feasible solution to prevent salinization of the well – a case study in Ba Ria – Vung Tau, Vietnam.

Minor
Martijn Bregman and Joost Hollander (2014): Fresh water storage in a coastal expansion in the North Sea.
Bas des Tombe (2012): Aquifer Storage Recovery, the storage tank method.