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Young researchers and citizen scientists can and should be systematically mobilized with a common mobile data collection platform to help close ‘water data gaps’, says Jeffrey Davids. He defended his PhD-thesis on this subject on Thursday June 13th at TU Delft.

Kustwaterbouwkundige Matthieu de Schipper is uitgeroepen tot Wetenschapstalent 2019 door het populairwetenschappelijke tijdschrift New Scientist. Dat werd op vrijdag 31 mei bekend gemaakt tijdens het New Scientist Live evenement in Utrecht.

New Story of Science of Ece Özer about 'The breathing of dikes'.

Mark van Koningsveld will be on the BNR radio on Tuesday the 14th of May. BNR broadcasts ‘The Big Five’ about ports in The Netherlands that week. Mark will give a one-to-one interview of one hour on Tuesday.

Matthieu de Schipper has been nominated for the ‘New Scientist wetenschapstalent 2019’ award.

In september 2019, a new project will be started with help of NWO about the full scale hydraulic and ecological optimisation of a dike-forest combination.

Together with TU Delft, Rijkswaterstaat is starting a monitoring program along the new sandy banks of the Houtribdijk. During 2 years the waves, currents and sand displacement at the sloping banks of the IJsselmeer and Markermeer will be measured.

Begroeide voorlanden kunnen golfbelastingen op dijken flink laten afnemen. Daardoor zou je deze dijken eventueel minder hoog kunnen maken. Vincent Vuik promoveert op woensdag 27 maart op dit onderwerp aan de TU Delft.