Youen Kervella

2nd year PhD student in Hydrodynamics

Laboratory of sedimentary and hydrodynamic physics. Coastal Environment Dynamics Department.

PhD topic

Impact of the shellfish farming installations on the sedimentary dynamics.
Oyster cases and mussel beds are artificial impediments disturbing the tide stream flow and the waves propagation. Sedimentation and turbidity modifications then occure and threaten the shellfish farming activity.
Those reports are not the most recents but, nowadays, there is not any accurate study of the hydrodynamic modification induced by those installations.
This PhD project has to enable the quantification of the mussel beds and oyster cases effects on the local flow, on a small scale, the determination of their influence circle and the evaluation of the morphodynamic modifications induced at a bay scale, in order to consider those structures in a larger space resolution pattern.
Those works lay on in-site measurements, in-laboratory measurements and digital patterns.

Why did he sign up for science

“My “involvement” is more like the continuation of my college course and is mostly motivated by a will to learn, especially about a topic and a methodology that highly interest me.”

Enough with science…

He is a leader-formative at the association “ the young resourcefuls” (dedicated to science education) : www.lespetitsdebrouillards.org
He surfs and runs.