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Objective: To assess tropical cyclone (TC) risk by developing a TC database with a hydraulic model combined with probabilistic or machine learning techniques

From the first of February, Bas Hofland has been appointed by the dean as Associate Professor Coastal Structures. Congratulations!

Tjerk Zitman is the new director of studies of Civil Engineering and Kristina Reinders is a new member of the Board of Examiners. Congratulations!

The shipping crates that fell from a container ship in the North Sea last week could be a blessing in disguise for oceanographers.

The 'Waternetwerk Scriptieprijs' is awarded every year during the KNW Autum Congress. It is initiated to help HBO- and WO-students to profile themselves in the water sector. The Master's prize 2018 has been won by Ileen van den Berg for her thesis 'Effect of irregularities in the under layer on the stability of XblocPlus concrete armour unit'.

In September, Marcel Stive received the Jiangsu Friendship Award from the governor of the province of Jiangsu (China).

Een team met onderzoekers van de TU Delft, Van Oord en het Australische onderzoeksinstituut CSIRO vertrekt deze week naar het Great Barrier Reef bij Australië om een nieuwe methode voor grootschalig herstel van koraal te testen.

On the first of November, the ninth edition of the delta congress took place in Zwolle. At the congress it was busier than ever.

During summer, the jury of the Dutch Data price 2018 have reviewed almost 50 submissions and the HANZE dataset (Historical Analysis of Natural Hazards in Europe) has been nominated as one of the nine contestents. This dataset is from reseacher Dominik Paprotny who published a paper on this dataset.

Allisa Albrecht is a new staff member at the department of Hydraulic Engineering. In this article, She introduces herself shortly: