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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.

A group of about 30 international students of the course 'Flood Defences' visited the site office of the Markermeerdijken project.

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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.

Hoe kan de Nederlandse Zandmotor helpen om onze kust op een natuurlijke manier te beschermen? En hoe kan deze kennis helpen om kusterosie in Jamaica tegen te gaan? Het nieuwe boek ‘The Sand Motor: a nature-based response to climate change’ toont de belangrijkste resultaten en reflecties op het interdisciplinaire NatureCoast programma dat liep van 2013-2017.

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.

The company Diana FEA BV is looking for students to model a dike failure using DIANA Finite Element software. This project could be suitable for an internship, additional thesis or master thesis project. As part of the project, there are opportunities to have your participation in a benchmark workshop in Milano(Sept 2019) funded.