Pauline Denis

Pauline is an early career physical oceanographer. Pauline's research focuses on modelling the environmental impacts of installing floating solar panels within offshore wind farms in the Belgian part of the North Sea. On one hand, she specializes in hydrodynamic modelling, given her background in physics, to study aspects such as current fields and turbulence. On the other hand, she also investigates the biogeochemical processes that solar structures may induce, including bio-colonization, fecal pellet deposition, carbon enrichment of the seabed, sediment dynamics, and benthos equilibrium.

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As a physical oceanographer and modeller, Pauline is working and developing the COHERENS model to use it for a direct application: assessing the impacts of offshore marine renewable energy structures on the marine environment.

Research team: Ecosystem Modelling (ECOMOD)
Research theme: Science for a sustainable marine management