Deltares supplies knowledge for Dutch Dikes book

18 December 2014

Maaike Bos (a landscape architect) and Harry Schelfhout (a dike safety expert) from Deltares contributed expertise during the past two years relating to dikes, safety, landscape architecture and innovative developments. They also played a role…

Deltares signs agreement with Alberta Canada

15 December 2014

On the 12 th of December 2014, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is signed in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) by Kevin Parks, the Vice President of Science and Evaluation of AER and by Toon Segeren, Director…

Dutch scientists prove: the 1962 Alcatraz Escape was possible

15 December 2014

When Dutch scientists were developing a model of the San Francisco Bay to study the impact of sea-level rise, they realised that this model could also shed light on one of the USA’s most intriguing…

Global threat of food and environmental problems: agriculture must be more sustainable

11 December 2014

Unless we intervene soon, the present problems with drought, contaminated water and algae will become slowly but surely unmanageable. So agriculture must become more sustainable. A few examples In some parts of the Midwest of…

Minister Schultz van Haegen visits Koopmanspolder

9 December 2014

The Minister turned on the low-energy water link between the IJsselmeer and the Koopmanspolder, which consists of a windmill and a fish-friendly outlet through which water and fish poured from the IJsselmeer into the polder….

Member of ‘Coastal Engineering’ editorial board

9 December 2014

The board consists of a selected range of international specialists from institutions such as USACE and water institutes like HR Wallingford and DHI. Link to international journal, ‘ Coastal Engineering’.

Site regeneration? The brownfield navigator is now available.

9 December 2014

The BFN can be found on bfn.deltares.nl (LINK). It was developed by Deltares as part of the European HOMBRE project (www.zerobrownfields.eu). This interactive tool with alternatives and out-of-the-box solutions for regeneration sites is available to…

Expert dialogue to save major link road in Colombia

5 December 2014

Coastal erosion is undermining the road from Santa Marta to Barranquilla, which will disappear into the waves very soon unless action is taken. This road – the RN90 – is the only coastal road providing…

Deltares Software Days in San Francisco

4 December 2014

The following courses will be given: Getting started course Delft3D hydromorphodynamics (11 and 12 December) X Beach, getting started, hurricane impact modeling (15 December) Deft3D flexible Mesh (15 December) Delft3D, getting started, water quality modeling…

Successful test closure of storm-surge barrier in Venice

3 December 2014

The barriers are being built at the Lido, Malamocco and Chioggia inlets to the lagoon. The system will be closed only at extremely high water on the lines of the Maeslant barrier in the Netherlands….