About Marcel Taal
Marcel Taal has an outstanding track record and experience in coastal and estuarine policy and management in the Netherlands. Since more than twenty five years he focuses on the challenge to link system knowledge and estuarine and coastal management. At present he is working in the section Resilience and Planning of the Unit Marine and Coastal Systems.
He fulfils the role of program manager and expert adviser to the Dutch and Flemish governments. He has remarkable qualities in managing complex projects and programs, in the sense that advices are given and knowledge is developed that really match the problems and questions of coastal and estuarine managers and policy makers.
During the six years in which he worked for the Dutch government he was leading the coastline management program, the innovation program for the Dutch coast and was the author of the National Water Management Plan (BPRW 2005-2008). In the sixteen years following, within Deltares, he continued this work, but now also with a focus on the Scheldt estuary. This is a water system where he already has been successful from 1998-2000. He is now the key player in the research programs for the Scheldt estuary. Also see www.vnsc.eu.
Projects (a.o.):
- Coastline management the Netherlands
- Knowledge program on Sea Level Rise
- Scheldt estuary, research and monitoring
Previous positions (a.o):
- Rijkswaterstaat
- Resource Analysis
- Technical University Delft
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