Arnoud Rijk

Arnoud Rijk

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  • About me

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  • Education

    • ROC West-Brabant

      2008 - 2011
      Post-Secondary College Degree Forestry and Nature Management (MBO)

      Education in planning, maintenance, surveillance, policy and management surrounding a nature area/reserve.

    • Ostrea Lyceum Goes

      2003 - 2008
      Higher General Secondary Education (HAVO)

      Specialization: Nature and Health.

    • HZ University of Applied Sciences

      2011 - 2015
      Bachelor’s Degree Water Management - Aquatic Ecotechnology (BSc)

      Followed courses such as:Fluid Dynamics (calculating head pressure, friction loss etc. of natural and civil water structures), Ecotechnology (economically quantifying ecosystem services), Water System Analysis (biological, technological, ecotoxicological, chemical, hydrological analyses of water systems), Integrated Coastal Zone Management (tackling complex coastal problems in a holistic fashion), and River Basin Management (holistically quantifying river basins).Minor - Building… Show more Followed courses such as:Fluid Dynamics (calculating head pressure, friction loss etc. of natural and civil water structures), Ecotechnology (economically quantifying ecosystem services), Water System Analysis (biological, technological, ecotoxicological, chemical, hydrological analyses of water systems), Integrated Coastal Zone Management (tackling complex coastal problems in a holistic fashion), and River Basin Management (holistically quantifying river basins).Minor - Building with Nature:The making of a biodiversity comparison between ecotope and non-ecotope dike revetments. Determining and comparing the biodiversity on dike revetments at different heights, revetments and locations. Show less

  • Experience

    • Natuurmonumenten

      May 2009 - Jun 2009
      Intern Fieldwork

      Conducting fieldwork.

    • Landschapsbeheer Zeeland

      Jun 2009 - Jul 2009
      Intern Fieldwork

      Conducting fieldwork.

    • Het Zeeuwse Landschap

      Dec 2009 - Feb 2010
      Intern Water Management

      Writing a water management plan for St. Laurense Weihoek nature area, and assisting the park ranger in the Oranjezon nature reserve.

    • Landschapsbeheer Zeeland

      Jan 2011 - Feb 2011
      Intern Development Planning

      Charting ± 20 dikes on landscape elements and vegetation and making development plans and drawings for these dikes.

    • Dow Chemicals

      Mar 2011 - Jun 2011
      Intern Environment & Safety

      Making a development plan to analyse potential areas within the DOW complex to be furnished with nature.

    • Nofima,

      Feb 2014 - Jul 2014
      Intern Water Treatment

      Conducting experiments with a new rapid way of measuring the Biodegradable Organic Carbon content in a Recirculating Aquaculture System.

    • IMARES Wageningen UR

      Feb 2015 - May 2015
      Intern Ecotoxicology

      Graduation thesis: 'The ArticCase: Defining the sensitivity of marine organisms towards oil.'

    • Trinity College Dublin

      Sept 2015 - Mar 2016
      Research Assistant Hydrology

      Conducting the hydrology part of the Abbeyleix Bog research project for the Trinity College in Dublin (both literature and field research). After returning to the Netherlands in December 2015 I wrote a research article about the findings of this project.In addition to the hydrology project I did fieldwork such as drilling boreholes, defining water flow patterns (surface and subsurface), helping with the installation of weirs and doing water measurements.

    • SMA Zeeland

      Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
      Junior Fieldworker Soil and Water

      Execution of soil sampling, water level monitoring, land surveying, analysing soil samples, indentifying contaminated or presumably contaminated soils. At locations such as construction sites, industrial, residential areas and the countryside.

    • VOF Steijn-Vermuë

      Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
      Agricultural Employee
    • Engineers Without Borders (EWB-NL)

      Oct 2016 - now
      Water Engineer

      Participating in a CAMAAY waterproject in Cameroon.

    • Waterschap Scheldestromen

      Apr 2017 - Jan 2019
      Medewerker waterkwantiteit
    • VOF Steijn-Vermue

      Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
      Medewerker fruitsnoei
    • Rijkswaterstaat

      Mar 2019 - now
      Vergunningsverlener
  • Licenses & Certifications