News & Agenda Open menu 14 June 2019 Student / startup competition to create sustainable cities AMS Climate Launchpad – Your green urban idea deserves a shot at business success | winning € 10.000,- Read more 03 June 2019 Matthieu de Schipper bags New Scientist Science Talent award 2019 Assistent professor of Coastal Engineering Matthieu de Schipper is the New Scientist Science Talent of 2019. The announcement was made at the New Scientist Live event in Utrecht on May 31. Read more 14 May 2019 The Sand Motor review: results and reflections on the NatureCoast programme How can the Dutch Sand Motor help nature protect the Dutch coast? And can this knowledge be used to combat coastal erosion in Jamaica? The newly published ‘The Sand Motor: a nature-based response to climate change’ outlines the most important results and reflections on the multidisciplinary NatureCoast programme which ran from 2013 to 2017. Read more 07 May 2019 Stories of Science New Story of Science of Ece Özer about 'The breathing of dikes'. Read more 07 May 2019 Mark van Koningsveld on the radio next week 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. Read more 01 May 2019 Vote for Matthieu de Schipper as New Scientist 2019 Matthieu de Schipper has been nominated for the ‘New Scientist wetenschapstalent 2019’ award. Read more 01 May 2019 New Research Project: WOODY 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. Read more 09 April 2019 Student project opportunity: modelling dike failure using DIANA Finite element software 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. Read more 09 April 2019 Rijkswaterstaat and TU Delft are collaborating to investigate how the sandy Houtribdijk shores behave 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. Read more 22 March 2019 Building with Nature: Common cordgrass and grassweed help dikes Vegetated foreshores can strongly reduce wave loads on coastal dikes, meaning these dikes may not have to be built so high. On Wednesday 27 March, Vincent Vuik will be awarded his PhD at TU Delft for his work on this subject. Read more ... Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 You are on page 10 Page 11 Page 12 ... Publications Media Attention Waterbouwdispuut News Agenda November 21 Promotion of Paul van Wiechen Share this page: Facebook Linkedin Twitter Email WhatsApp Share this page