New chair for CEDA Environment Commission
The CEDA Environment Commission (CEC) has a new chair, Frederik Roose of the Maritime Access Division of the Flemish Ministry of Mobility and Public Works in Belgium.
He succeeds Polite Laboyrie of the Netherlands’ Witteveen+Bos, who has been chairing the CEC for eight years and now moves on to become CEDA President.
Frederik Roose graduated as a bio-engineer in soil and water management and as a Master of Marine and Lacustrine Sciences, both at the University of Ghent.
He has been working for the last decade as a project coordinator in the Environment Team of the Maritime Access Division, appropriate experience for his new role as chair of the CEC. Projects he has been involved with focus on monitoring and research that contribute to the integrated management of the Schelde estuary. Examples include analysis of siltation of Deurganckdok and efficiency of the Current Deflecting Wall and optimizing the relocation strategy for maintaining the fairway. He also has experience with the management of monitoring data and application development for easier access to geographic data sources.
An active member of CEC since 2009, Frederik Roose has contributed to several CEDA Information Papers (e.g. on ecosystem services and environmental monitoring procedures) and to the WODA Principles of Sustainable Dredging issued during WODCON XX in 2013 in Brussels, Belgium. For several years he also acted as a young professional liaison between the CEC and Young CEDA.
When it comes to dealing with future societal challenges, the new CEC chair believes that dredging can be part of the solution and, as such, dredging is a necessary tool for integrated management of coastal ecosystems.
He said: “I feel privileged to be able to work together with motivated people with different backgrounds across the entire sector, especially knowing that CEDA prospers from voluntary contributions from its members.”
By Larz Bourne
