Interdune lake in Meijendel dune reserve outside of Den Hague. River water is pumped into the interdune lakes after initial treatment. This water percolates through sand as a way to clean it further before being pumped and piped for drinking water. These dune drinking water sources are becoming increasingly brackish with sea level rise and some of these lake sources now require additional treatment.
Rooftop Rotterdam as my students enter the exhibit for the first time. This is where we volunteered. The work was to make sure that visitors stayed on the yellow path as they toured the street art distributed along the rooftop of this mall in Zuidplein.
The interdune lake where I swam on the bike ride out of Haarlem to the beach. I swam my first strokes here after breaking my arm in December 2022
I traveled on my own to see Marker Wadden, a collection of artificial islands undergoing assembly in the Markemeer, the large lake (its not ocean) north of Amsterdam.
Marker Wadden on the south facing shore. The island's assembly is designed to take advantage of winds and currents to allow more natural deposition and assembly of the island. The large bird observatory is also still visible on the horizon to the left of the photo. H5N1's presence was noted in the frequent occurrence of dead birds along the trail and a worker whose job was to remove dead birds. I also met a group of biologists out sampling fish in the interior wetlands.
