Skip to main content

IMIS - Marine Onderzoeksgroepen

[ report an error in this record ] Print this page

Coastbusters 2.0
https://www.bluecluster.be/projects/coastbusters-bivalve-reefs-and-biomaterials
Funder identifier: HBC.2019.0037 (AIO contract id)
Principal funding codes: 5553 - VLAIO - Blue Cluster - ICON
Period: February 2020 till June 2023
Status: Completed

Thesaurus terms Biological oceanography; Coastal and estuarine hydraulics; Coastal environments; Coastal geography; Ecosystem services; Environmental monitoring; Marine arrangements, structure and construction; Marine ecology; Marine geoscience; Textile technology
Coastbusters 2.0, a public-private innovation partnership, will deploy several reef-facilitating systems to induce the early stages of mussel biogenic reef formation in different dynamic nearshore coastal environments as a basis for the development of a nature-inspired coastal protection.
  • (2023). Coastbusters 2.0 ecosystem based coastal management: The next step towards nature based solutions. De Blauwe Cluster: Oostende. 32 pp., more
  • Pint, S.; Moulaert, I.; Langedock, K.; Hablützel, P.; Everaert, G. (2024). Coastbusters 2.0: Habitat suitability model. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ): Ostend. 34 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.48470/83, more
  • Semeraro, A.; Langedock, K.; Boone, W.; Carpentier, J.-B.; Delbare, D.; De Neve, M.; Devriese, S.; Geldhof, R.; Groenendaal, B.; Huygens, M.; Mascart, T.; Moulaert, I.; Van Hoey, G.; Sterckx, T. (2022). Coastbusters, innovative nature-based solutions for sustainable coastal management, in: Strypsteen, G. et al. Book of abstracts: building coastal resilience 2022, Bruges, Belgium, 12-13 April 2022. VLIZ Special Publication, 89: pp. 61-62, more
  • Dekoninck, W. (2021). Multibeam monitoring van kunstmatige mosselriffen in het kader van het Project Coastbusters 2.0. BSc Thesis. Universiteit Gent: Gent. 19 pp., more
  • Calonge, A.; Develter, R.; Muñiz, C.; Parcerisas, C.; Reubens, J.; Boone, W.; Deneudt, K.; Debusschere, E. (2026). Scalable low-cost seabed landers: The missing link for sustained, integrated, long-term observations in dynamic shallow seas. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation Online first: 1-9. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rse2.70072, more
  • Dupont, R.; Semeraro, A.; Stechele, B.; Sterckx, T.; Van Hoey, G.; Vandorpe, T.; Van der Biest, K. (2025). Variation in ecosystem services within biogenic reefs: The role of reef-building species under distinct hydrodynamic conditions. J. Sea Res. 208: 102650. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2025.102650, more