Natural Environment, Suspended Sediment and Seabed Monitoring and Modelling Team (RBINS)
Knowledge Institute
Natural Sciences
Address
Rue Vautier 29, 1000 Bruxelles
Our offshore wind expertise (general)
The SUMO team is involved in the giving of the environment licence for the wind farms, with respect to the aspects of the turbidity and the sea bed, such as impact of wind farms on the ecological valuable gravel beds. The team is also involved in the monitoring of the impact on the turbidity and the seabed.
Our group was/is involved in these key offshore wind projects:
Monitoring of impact of wind farms on the turbitiy and the sea bed
Our relevant equipment | tools | infrastructure
for offshore wind:
Bottom landers to measure the currents, turbidity, turbulence
Use of numerical models
Use of the RV Belgica to do measurements at sea
8.2.2 Environmental risk assessment
8.2.1 Ecosystem services and/or biodiversity modelling
8.2 Environmental impact analysis
8. Economic, Environmental and Social impact
Our offshore wind expertise (all lifecycle stages)
Contact details
Dries Van den Eynde
Team leader of the SUMO team / involved in the EIA / involved in the monitoring
dvandeneynde@naturalsciences.be
+32 496 28 78 71
Céline Taymans
Oceanographer, PhD student on the monitoring of the effects of wind farms
