Rieks Oosterhuis

Experience

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  Jumbo Supermarkets

  Jun 2017 - now

  Supermarket employee
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  Water Authority of Frisia

  Jan 2019 - Jul 2019

  Maintenance and sampling. Shadowed and helped my supervisor maintaining water levels in a specific rayon for ten days.

  • Intern sewage treatment plant

    May 2019 - Jul 2019

  • Intern Rayon Management

    Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
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  Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Reserach (NIOZ)

  Sept 2019 - Jan 2020

  Intern Coastal Systems

  Under the Coastal Systems Department, I worked on the projects SIBES, Wadden Mosaic and the High Tide Program. Primarily worked in the benthic lab.

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  Water Authority of Frisia

  Apr 2021 - Jul 2021

  Intern inspector of eco-friendly riverbanks

  Graduate internship where a report was prepared for improving the quality of an eco-friendly riverbank.

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  Municipality of Harderwijk

  May 2023 - Oct 2023

  Intern spatial policies

  Investigated ways in which the municipality of Harderwijk can (better) encourage its residents to take green and climate-adaptive measures around their homes. This involved delving into three topics, which are subsidies, activities and communication.

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  DMAD - Marine Mammals Reserach Association

  May 2024 - Jul 2024

  Intern Montenegro Dolphin Research

  Data collection on dolphin behaviour using land and boat surveys. As a personal project, produced posters on the correlation between seawater temperature and the number of dolphins spotted, to see if climate change affects this.

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  VU Amsterdam & NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

  Feb 2025 - now

  Intern Slufterproject

  Using fieldwork and laboratory analyses to map the grain size distribution and the calcium carbonate and organic matter contents of the Slufter tidal inlet (Texel). Also going to conduct a similar pilot study for the tidal inlet Het Zwin (Belgium).