Peer-reviewed publications

Scherpereel, C., Alosairi, Y., Lambrechts, J., & Hanert, E. (2025). Hydrodynamic impacts of bridge construction and land reclamation on water residence time and flushing processes in Kuwait Bay. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 214, 117716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2025.117716

Hirsh, H. K., Oliver, T. A., Dobbelaere, T., Palacio-Castro, A. M., Barkley, H. C., Webb, A. E., Hanert, E., & Enochs, I. C. (2025). Statistical Prediction of In Situ Coral Reef Carbonate Dynamics Using Endmember Chemistry, Hydrodynamic Models, And Benthic Composition. Aquatic Geochemistry, 31(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10498-025-09438-x

Ishimwe, A. P., Deleersnijder, E., Legat, V., & Lambrechts, J. (2025). A multi-scale IMEX second order Runge-Kutta method for 3D hydrodynamic ocean models. Journal of Computational Physics, 520, 113482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2024.113482

Dobbelaere, T., Holstein, D. M., Gramer, L. J., McEachron, L., & Hanert, E. (2024). Investigating the link between the Port of Miami dredging and the onset of the stony coral tissue loss disease epidemics. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 207, 116886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116886

Dobbelaere, T., Dekens, A., Saint‐Amand, A., Alaerts, L., Holstein, D. M., & Hanert, E. (2024). Hurricanes enhance coral connectivity but also superspread coral diseases. Global Change Biology, 30(6), e17382. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17382

Faryuni, I. D., Saint-Amand, A., Dobbelaere, T., Umar, W., Jompa, J., Moore, A. M., & Hanert, E. (2024). Assessing coral reef conservation planning in Wakatobi National Park (Indonesia) from larval connectivity networks. Coral Reefs, 43(1), 19–33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-023-02443-y

Lecart, M., Dobbelaere, T., Alaerts, L., Randresihaja, N. R., Mohammed, A. V., Vethamony, P., & Hanert, E. (2024). Land reclamation and its consequences: A 40-year analysis of water residence time in Doha Bay, Qatar. PLOS ONE, 19(1), e0296715. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296715

Saint-Amand, A., Lambrechts, J., & Hanert, E. (2023). Biophysical models resolution affects coral connectivity estimates. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 9414. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36158-5

Purkis, S. J., Oehlert, A. M., Dobbelaere, T., Hanert, E., & Harris, P. (Mitch). (2023). Always a White Christmas in the Bahamas: temperature and hydrodynamics localize winter mud production on Great Bahama Bank. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 93(3), 145–160. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2022.066

King, S., Saint-Amand, A., Walker, B. K., Hanert, E., & Figueiredo, J. (2023). Larval dispersal patterns and connectivity of Acropora on Florida’s Coral Reef and its implications for restoration. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 1038463. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1038463

Sterckx, K., Delandmeter, P., Lambrechts, J., Deleersnijder, E., Verburg, P., & Thiery, W. (2023). The impact of seasonal variability and climate change on lake Tanganyika’s hydrodynamics. Environmental Fluid Mechanics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10652-022-09908-8

Sampurno, J., Ardianto, R., & Hanert, E. (2023). Integrated machine learning and GIS-based bathtub models to assess the future flood risk in the Kapuas River Delta, Indonesia. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 25(1), 113–125. https://doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2022.106

Ishimwe, A. P., Deleersnijder, E., Legat, V., & Lambrechts, J. (2023). A split-explicit second order Runge–Kutta method for solving 3D hydrodynamic equations. Ocean Modelling, 186, 102273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2023.102273

Saint-Amand, A., Lambrechts, J., Thomas, C. J., & Hanert, E. (2023). How fine is fine enough? Effect of mesh resolution on hydrodynamic simulations in coral reef environments. Ocean Modelling, 186, 102254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2023.102254

Verhofstede, A., Dobbelaere, T., Harlay, J., & Hanert, E. (2023). Seychelles Plateau’s oil spill vulnerability. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 196, 115652. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115652

Patterson, R. G., Wolanski, E., Groom, R., Critchell, K., Playford, L., Grubert, M., Kennett, R., Tait, H., Udyawer, V., Lambrechts, J., & Campbell, H. A. (2023). Improving certainty in marine ecosystems: A biophysical modelling approach in the remote, data-limited Gulf of Carpentaria. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 283, 108254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2023.108254

Hanert, E., Mohammed, A. V., Veerasingam, S., Dobbelaere, T., Vallaeys, V., & Vethamony, P. (2023). A multiscale ocean modelling system for the central Arabian/Persian Gulf: From regional to structure scale circulation patterns. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 282, 108230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2023.108230

Sampurno, J., Vallaeys, V., Ardianto, R., & Hanert, E. (2022). Integrated hydrodynamic and machine learning models for compound flooding prediction in a data-scarce estuarine delta. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 29(3), 301–315. https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-29-301-2022

Alaerts, L., Dobbelaere, T., Gravinese, P. M., & Hanert, E. (2022). Climate Change Will Fragment Florida Stone Crab Communities. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 839767. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.839767

Sampurno, J., Vallaeys, V., Ardianto, R., & Hanert, E. (2022). Modeling interactions between tides, storm surges, and river discharges in the Kapuas River delta. Biogeosciences, 19(10), 2741–2757. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2741-2022

Sampurno, J., Vallaeys, V., Ardianto, R., & Hanert, E. (2022). Modeling interactions between tides, storm surges, and river discharges in the Kapuas River delta. Biogeosciences, 19(10), 2741–2757. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2741-2022

Saint-Amand, A., Grech, A., Choukroun, S., & Hanert, E. (2022). Quantifying the environmental impact of a major coal mine project on the adjacent Great Barrier Reef ecosystems. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 179, 113556. https://doi.org/j.marpolbul.2022.113656

Dobbelaere, T., Holstein, D. M., Muller, E. M., Gramer, L. J., McEachron, L., Williams, S. D., & Hanert, E. (2022). Connecting the Dots: Transmission of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease From the Marquesas to the Dry Tortugas. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 778938. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.778938

Vincent, D., Lambrechts, J., Tyler, R. H., Karatekin, Ö., Dehant, V., & Deleersnijder, É. (2022). A numerical study of the liquid motion in Titan’s subsurface ocean. Icarus, 388, 115219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2022.115219

Lopez‐Gamundi, C., Dobbelaere, T., Hanert, E., Harris, P. M., Eberli, G., & Purkis, S. J. (2022). Simulating sedimentation on the Great Bahama Bank – Sources, sinks and storms. Sedimentology, 69(7), 2693–2714. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13020

Dobbelaere, T., Curcic, M., Le Hénaff, M., & Hanert, E. (2022). Impacts of Hurricane Irma (2017) on wave-induced ocean transport processes. Ocean Modelling, 171, 101947. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2022.101947

Schlaefer, J., Carter, A., Choukroun, S., Coles, R., Critchell, K., Lambrechts, J., Rasheed, M., Tol, S., & Grech, A. (2022). Marine plant dispersal and connectivity measures differ in their sensitivity to biophysical model parameters. Environmental Modelling & Software, 149, 105313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105313

Wolanski, E., & Hopper, C. (2022). Dams and climate change accelerate channel avulsion and coastal erosion and threaten Ramsar-listed wetlands in the largest Great Barrier Reef watershed. Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology, S1642359322000015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecohyd.2022.01.001

Figueiredo, J., Thomas, C. J., Deleersnijder, E., Lambrechts, J., Baird, A. H., Connolly, S. R., & Hanert, E. (2022). Global warming decreases connectivity among coral populations. Nature Climate Change, 12(1), 83–87. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01248-7

Vallaeys, V., Lambrechts, J., Delandmeter, P., Pätsch, J., Spitzy, A., Hanert, E., & Deleersnijder, E. (2021). Understanding the circulation in the deep, micro-tidal and strongly stratified Congo River estuary. Ocean Modelling, 101890. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2021.101890

Wolanski, E., Petus, C., Lambrechts, J., Brodie, J., Waterhouse, J., & Tracey, D. (2021). The intrusion of polluted Fly River mud into Torres Strait. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 166, 112243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112243

Duquesne, F., Vallaeys, V., Vidaurre, P. J., & Hanert, E. (2021). A coupled ecohydrodynamic model to predict algal blooms in Lake Titicaca. Ecological Modelling, 440, 109418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109418

Le, H.-A., Lambrechts, J., Deleersnijder, E., Soares-Frazao, S., Gratiot, N., Ortleb, S., & Deleersnijder, E. (2020). Numerical modelling of flow dynamics in the Tonle Sap by means of a discontinuous Galerkin finite-element model. In W. Uijttewaal, M. J. Franca, D. Valero, V. Chavarrias, C. Ylla Arbós, R. Schielen, & A. Crosato (Eds.), River Flow 2020 (1st ed., pp. 1148–1154). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/b22619-160

Sterckx, K., Delandmeter, P., Lambrechts, J., Deleersnijder, E., & Thiery, W. (2020). Simulating Lake Tanganyika’s hydrodynamics under a changing climate [Preprint]. Dynamics of the Earth system: models. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-2020-36

Frys, C., Saint-Amand, A., Le Hénaff, M., Figueiredo, J., Kuba, A., Walker, B., Lambrechts, J., Vallaeys, V., Vincent, D., & Hanert, E. (2020). Fine-Scale Coral Connectivity Pathways in the Florida Reef Tract: Implications for Conservation and Restoration. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00312

Le, H.-A., Lambrechts, J., Ortleb, S., Gratiot, N., Deleersnijder, E., & Soares-Frazão, S. (2020). An implicit wetting–drying algorithm for the discontinuous Galerkin method: application to the Tonle Sap, Mekong River Basin. Environmental Fluid Mechanics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10652-019-09732-7

Wolanski, E., & Lambrechts, J. (2020). The net water circulation in the far Northern Great Barrier Reef. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 235, 106569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2019.106569

Le, H.-A., Gratiot, N., Santini, W., Ribolzi, O., Tran, D., Meriaux, X., Deleersnijder, E., & Soares-Frazão, S. (2020). Suspended sediment properties in the Lower Mekong River, from fluvial to estuarine environments. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 233, 106522. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2019.106522

Dobbelaere, T., Muller, Erinn, Gramer, Lewis, Holstein, Daniel, & Hanert, E. (2020). Coupled Epidemio-Hydrodynamic Modeling to Understand the Spread of a Deadly Coral Disease in Florida. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.591881

Deleersnijder, E., Draoui, I., Lambrechts, J., Legat, V., & Mouchet, A. (2020). Consistent Boundary Conditions for Age Calculations. 29. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12051274

Vincent, D., Lambrechts, J., Karatekin, Ö., Van Hoolst, T., Tyler, R. H., Dehant, V., & Deleersnijder, E. (2019). Normal modes and resonance in Ontario Lacus: a hydrocarbon lake of Titan. Ocean Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-019-01290-2

Schlaefer, J. A., Wolanski, E., Lambrechts, J., & Kingsford, M. J. (2018). Wind Conditions on the Great Barrier Reef Influenced the Recruitment of Snapper (Lutjanus carponotatus). Frontiers in Marine Science, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00193

Delandmeter, P., Lambrechts, J., Legat, V., Vallaeys, V., Naithani, J., Thiery, W., Remacle, J.-F., & Deleersnijder, E. (2018). A fully consistent and conservative vertically adaptive coordinate system for SLIM 3D v0.4 with an application to the thermocline oscillations of Lake Tanganyika. Geoscientific Model Development, 11(3), 1161–1179. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1161-2018

Li, Y., Wolanski, E., Dai, Z., Lambrechts, J., Tang, C., & Zhang, H. (2018). Trapping of plastics in semi-enclosed seas: Insights from the Bohai Sea, China. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 137, 509–517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.10.038

Remacle, J.-F., & Lambrechts, J. (2018). Fast and robust mesh generation on the sphere—Application to coastal domains. Computer-Aided Design, 103, 14–23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cad.2018.03.002

Vincent, D., Karatekin, Ö., Lambrechts, J., Lorenz, R. D., Dehant, V., & Deleersnijder, É. (2018). A numerical study of tides in Titan′s northern seas, Kraken and Ligeia Maria. Icarus, 310, 105–126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2017.12.018

Grech, A., Hanert, E., McKenzie, L., Rasheed, M., Thomas, C., Tol, S., Wang, M., Waycott, M., Wolter, J., & Coles, R. (2018). Predicting the cumulative effect of multiple disturbances on seagrass connectivity. Global Change Biology, 24(7), 3093–3104. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14127

Vallaeys, V., Kärnä, T., Delandmeter, P., Lambrechts, J., Baptista, A. M., Deleersnijder, E., & Hanert, E. (2018). Discontinuous Galerkin modeling of the Columbia River’s coupled estuary-plume dynamics. Ocean Modelling, 124, 111–124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2018.02.004

Wildermann, N., Critchell, K., Fuentes, M. M. P. B., Limpus, C. J., Wolanski, E., & Hamann, M. (2017). Does behaviour affect the dispersal of flatback post-hatchlings in the Great Barrier Reef? Royal Society Open Science, 4(5). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170164

Wolanski, E. (2017). Bounded and unbounded boundaries – Untangling mechanisms for estuarine-marine ecological connectivity: Scales of m to 10,000 km – A review. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 198, 378–392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2016.06.022