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Deltares is pleased to announce the opening of a new office in Jakarta, Indonesia. With the opening of this new office, Deltares is well-placed to help tackle Indonesia's distinctive water, soil and environmental challenges. We will drive change, in close cooperation with our local partners.

Climate change and human activity have caused the hydrological cycle to spin out of balance, a new report by the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has found. The report provides a comprehensive assessment of global water resources.

Our 2023 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.

“Synthesising deep perspectives is hard, what we need is genuine curiosity for each other’s angles.” At the Future Dutch Delta symposium on 28 September, Deltares director Annemieke Nijhof called upon the Dutch water management research community to increase collaboration to achieve a common goal: providing the knowledge required to plan a resilient Dutch delta in decades to come.

Marjolijn Haasnoot has been appointed Professor of Climate Adaptation in Deltas and Coastal Regions as of 1 November 2023. Haasnoot is a researcher at Deltares and currently serves as an Associate Professor in Climate Adaptation at the Department of Physical Geography.

Accurate predictions of wave movements in the North Sea are crucial in marine and coastal engineering projects. For example, for installing an offshore wind turbine in the North Sea. The better the predictions of wave movements, the better you can plan the implementation of projects at sea. Experts from Coastal Structures & Waves at Deltares have discovered that you can better predict wave movements by linking process-based models to machine learning models.

Last week, Deltares organised a symposium in Delft on the 'Emulation of 2D flood modelling: exploring deep learning techniques and low-fidelity approaches'. Expectations were high given the growing interest in advanced ways of modelling floods. The symposium was attended by representatives from across the industry, including academia, universities, market parties, and policymakers.

The SpongeScapes Project, which accelerates solutions that improve sponge functioning of the soil, groundwater, and surface water systems, officially started on 1 October. Funded by the European Union as part of the Horizon Europe programme, the project brings together ten European partners. Deltares is responsible for the coordination of the project, which will run until 2027.

We have to adapt: not only in how we design and use our living environment, but also in how we handle and accept uncertainties. This is illustrated in our latest issue of Deltalife, our corporate magazine. This issue presents a richly varied picture of Deltares; work around the globe.

Due to rising sea levels and changes in storms, floods from the sea are expected to become more frequent in the coming decades. How the probability of a storm surge will change as a result of climate change has been studied by an international team, led by Deltares expert Sanne Muis and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

The global water crisis challenges our current paradigms for water management, and urgently calls for action and innovation in science and policy. The UN 2023 Water Conference, which took place in New York earlier this year, was a moment to spur much-needed water action. This urgency was reiterated last week during the World Water Week in Stockholm and the Vienna Water Conferences (including the 40th IAHR World Congress, the World Large Rivers Conference, and the Danube Conference). Over 20 Deltares experts attended these events, bridging the gap between scientific research, policy formulation, and implementation. Their expertise is further strengthened by Deltares’ software offer for both policymakers and practitioners alike.