Deltares overview 2018

18 April 2019

Innovative solutions for climate and water, a sustainable living environment and future-proof infrastructure. Projects that we often tackle together with other research partners and companies. You can read, for example, about the sheet piling experiment…

Validation tests for innovative mooring technology in ports of the future

10 April 2019

An open port has less impact on the coastal zone, but the berths are more exposed to waves.  It places more stringent demands on the mooring system that keeps vessels in place during loading and…

Life in a delta region, where do all those microplastics go?

9 April 2019

In the Netherlands, we can measure the concentrations of microplastics to see if they are a problem for nature and perhaps for our health. But if you can model them, you can calculate in advance…

Water Quality Knowledge Impulse launched

8 April 2019

In early 2016, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, in its report ‘Water quality now and in the future’ (in Dutch), estimated that the planned improvement measures would very probably not achieve the desired water quality…

Improved European land loss predictions due to sea level rise using better geophysical data

8 April 2019

Panos Athanasiou (Deltares / University of Twente) investigated the effect that the location of sandy coasts has on these estimates by considering two existing data sets (EUROSION and the Shoreline monitor), where the latter was…

World Health Day. Deltares explores alliance with Erasmus MC

7 April 2019

Exposure to certain substances in water and the subsurface can impact health. The Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam studies the health of the public at the district level and Deltares has models at the same…

North Sea countries agree to test a common method for monitoring water quality

5 April 2019

EU member states need to report every 6 years on the water quality of their seas for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). These reports so far show an incoherent representation of water quality, due…

Information to help prevent water-related human insecurity in Iraq

2 April 2019

Deltares, with the Water, Peace and Security (WPS) partners, will apply data and tools to analyse the relationship between human insecurity, human displacement and the water crisis in Central and Southern Iraq. We will also…

3D visualization, to get the most out of your simulation results

28 March 2019

The DFX-tool will be the 3D Interactive Viewer of the Delft3D FM Suite. DFX can quickly load and visualize Delft3D FM output files (NetCDF). When georeferenced, a 3D world based on OpenStreetMaps data, elevation maps and…

Industry joins forces to study the sustainable decommissioning of offshore wind turbine foundations

26 March 2019

Offshore wind farms are being built in large numbers to meet the ever-increasing demand for renewable energy. However, wind farms have a limited lifetime. Wind farm owners, such as energy companies, therefore have the responsibility…