Joost van Dalen

MSc student

Wageningen University & Research

Hello there!

I am Joost van Dalen, an environmental geographer studying at Wageningen University & Research. I have always been fascinated with maps and the environment and I am now making a full-time career out of both.

After finishing my MBO and BSc in Water Management, I enrolled in the MSc programme of Geo-Information Science. From here my goal is to integrate remote sensing technologies and water resources management to study water quality and water quantity issues in the aquatic environment.

Download my resume.

Interests

Earth Observation
Water Resources Management
Data Visualization

Education

MSc, Geo-Information Science

Wageningen University & Research
BSc, Aquatic Ecotechnology

HZ University of Applied Sciences
MBO-4, Watermanagement

Lentiz MBO Westland

Skills

Python

Water Resources Management

PostgreSQL / PostGIS

QGIS / ArcGIS Pro

Riverine Macroplastic

Data Visualization

Experience

Graduate Intern / Thesis Student

The Ocean Cleanup | Data & Monitoring

Feb 2022 – Jul 2022 Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Thesis title: “Floating Macroplastic in the Riverine Environment: Assessment and Application of Quantification Methods for Macroplastic Emissions”

Responsibilities include:

Literature review related to the quantification of macroplastic in riverine environments
Data wrangling and processing of >43,000 field-based measurements on macroplastic emissions in 40 different rivers
Creating an easy-to-use application to gain information on the quantity, composition, and spatial-temporal fluxes of macrolitter and macroplastic

Intern

Deltares | Data Science & Waterquality

Jul 2020 – Feb 2021 Delft, the Netherlands

Responsibilities include:

Data acquisition and management of open-source datasets in PostgreSQL/PostGIS for the Coastal Hazard Wheel Application
Processing of spatial data using SQL (PostGIS), GDAL and Python
Creation of webmaps for the Coastal Hazard Wheel, Dutch National Hydrological Instrument and the department of Infrastructure of the Dominican Republic using GeoServer

Graduate intern

Provincie Zuid-Holland | department of Infrastructure

Nov 2017 – Jul 2018 The Hague, the Netherlands

Responsibilities include:

Research on implementation and design of exit facilities for humans and animals along the provincial waterways
Writing of policy based on previous research
Assisting in miscellaneous policy and maintenance activities