Four ways to save deltas from sea level rise

19 May 2022

Utrecht University assembled a team of specialists from countries around the world to solve this problem. Deltares is part of this team. The team investigated and reviewed existing and planned projects that are being explored…

Deltares 2022 impact report online: stories with impact

17 May 2022

With government authorities, business and research institutes in the Netherlands and throughout the world, we are working on safe and sustainable living, now and in the future. Our 2022 impact report shows how we do…

Deltares mourns passing of former managing director Maarten Smits

17 May 2022

We remember Maarten as a conceptual thinker with an intense interest in the field. We knew that Maarten was seriously ill. His health forced him – with a heavy heart – to resign as the…

Dutch team in The Ocean Race 2022-23 will work with research world to cut carbon emissions

13 May 2022

The Ocean Race 2022-23 is a yacht race around the world. The teams will visit nine iconic cities in a six-month period. The race sets off from Alicante (Spain) on 15 January 2023 and returns…

Can the Mekong Delta be saved from drowning?

6 May 2022

Only concerted action by the six countries in the Mekong basin and better management of water and sediments within the delta could avoid such a devastating outcome, argues an interdisciplinary research team in a commentary…

Climate change will more than double the risk of intense tropical cyclones by 2050

29 April 2022

Despite being amongst the world’s most destructive extreme weather events, tropical cyclones are relatively rare. In a given year, only around 80-100 tropical cyclones form globally, most of which never make landfall. In addition, accurate…

The Water Forecast from the Wylerbergmeer

26 April 2022

Monitoring buoy and weather station Leisurelands, the owner of the Wylerbergmeer lake, is very enthusiastic about the project, and the company was happy to open up the lake as a trial location for the researchers….

How can we avert a global sand crisis?

26 April 2022

Sand crisis? What crisis? Globally, sand is the second most used material, second only to water.  We use it to build houses, hospitals, schools and roads, but also to manufacture computer chips and glass.  We…

Bringing order to the chaos of sea level projections

19 April 2022

Aimée Slangen is a climate scientist at the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and co-author of the IPCC climate report. Together with climate adaptation experts Marjolijn Haasnoot and Gundula Winter from Deltares and…

TCOMS and Deltares sign memorandum of understanding for joint research and co-development of knowledge in the field of hydrodynamics

19 April 2022

Professor Chan Eng Soon, CEO TCOMS: “The agreement marks the start of an exciting partnership with Deltares to co-create cutting edge capabilities in hydrodynamic modelling and knowledge of coastal fluid-structure interactions.  This will mutually strengthen…