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Four ways to save deltas from sea level rise
River deltas are drowning in the face of rapidly rising sea-levels. To keep up with sea-level rise, delta land needs to be raised with sand and mud from rivers. But sand and mud supply from rivers is decreasing globally, and doesn’t make it to deltas anymore which causes flooding and land loss. -
Deltares 2022 impact report online: stories with impact
Our 2022 impact report is now online. Read nineteen stories that show how Deltares contributes to innovative and sustainable solutions for complex and urgent challenges, facing society. -
Deltares mourns passing of former managing director Maarten Smits
We are saddened by the news that Maarten Smits has passed away. Maarten Smits was the Managing Director of Deltares from 2012 to 2019. He helped lay down a stable foundation for Deltares and its strong position nationally and internationally as a knowledge institute. 
Dutch team in The Ocean Race 2022-23 will work with research world to cut carbon emissions
The Top consortium Knowledge & Innovation, TKI, is teaming up with The Ocean Race 2022-23 to reduce carbon emissions by the maritime industry. The consortium is a Dutch initiative that brings together the business world, government and knowledge institutes. During the race, high-performance sport and research will team up to collect and analyse relevant data with the aim of improving our understanding of ocean currents in places that are not easily accessible for research. This knowledge can be used to optimise offshore navigation, reducing costs and carbon emissions in the maritime industry. The preliminary results will be presented during The Ocean Race’s stopover in The Hague in June 2023.
Can the Mekong Delta be saved from drowning?
The Mekong Delta in Vietnam could be nearly fully submerged by the end of the century if urgent actions are not taken across the river basin. Continuing with business as usual could drown 90% of this agro-economic powerhouse that’s home to nearly 20 million people – with immense local and global impacts.
Floods and droughts: an EPIC response to these hazards in the era of climate change
How can we create a safer, more prosperous future for the world's 7.7 billion people? Today, on Desertification and Drought Day, the World Bank and Deltares present an ambitious Flagship Report: "An Epic Response: Innovative Governance for Flood and Drought Risk Management" as their contribution.-
Climate change will more than double the risk of intense tropical cyclones by 2050
Human-caused climate change will make strong tropical cyclones twice as frequent by mid-century, putting large parts of the world at risk, according to a new study published in Scientific Advances. The analysis also projects that maximum wind speeds associated with these cyclones could increase up to 24%. -
How can we avert a global sand crisis?
A new report by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) entitled “Sand and sustainability: 10 recommendations to avert a crisis” was launched on 26 April 2022 at the UNEP office in Geneva, Switzerland. Deltares researcher Helena van der Vegt is co-author of this report, contributing to the chapter on restoration of ecosystem services as well as other topics in the report. -
The Water Forecast from the Wylerbergmeer
The Water Forecast project was officially launched with the installation of a monitoring buoy and a weather station at the Wylerbergmeer lake on 21 April. The Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), research institute Deltares and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) are joining forces in this project to combine existing weather, water and cyanobacteria models to predict problems with cyanobacteria in a ‘water forecast’. 
Bringing order to the chaos of sea level projections
In their effort to provide decisionmakers with insight into the consequences of climate change, climate researchers at NIOZ, Deltares and UU are bringing order to the large amount of sea level projections, translating climate models to expected sea level rise. Their new overview study was published in the scientific journal Earth's Future. "These results offer tools for decision making on the shorter and longer term."-
TCOMS and Deltares sign memorandum of understanding for joint research and co-development of knowledge in the field of hydrodynamics
Singapore, 19th April 2022 – The Technology Centre for Offshore and Marine, Singapore (TCOMS), and Deltares, independent knowledge institute in the field of water and subsurface, headquartered in the Netherlands, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 19 April 2022 during the Singapore International Water Week. Both TCOMS and Deltares agree to share and exchange their knowledge and expertise, to further enhance capabilities in hydrodynamic modelling, for both deep-water and shallow-water scenarios, and contribute towards predictions of regional met-ocean conditions and coastal protection measures, especially adaptation solutions in response to climate change and rising sea levels. -
Latest addition to San Francisco Bay-Delta Community Model: simulation of extreme water levels
Dutch and American scientists and engineers created, applied and shared a new Delft3D Flexible Mesh model that focuses on the simulation of extreme water levels in the San Francisco Bay-Delta system. The results have been published in the scientific journal 'Coastal Engineering' recently.
