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15 March 2018

Increasingly accurate picture of accelerating rise in sea levels

Increasingly accurate picture of accelerating rise in sea levels

Rising sea levels are affected by all kinds of different factors, most of which we can now effectively unravel and explain almost everywhere in the world. This is according to TU Delft researcher Thomas Frederikse, who has also established that the average rise in sea levels worldwide is accelerating. Moreover, the days on earth are becoming slightly longer... Frederikse will be awarded his doctorate on Monday, 19 March.

09 March 2018

Jan Dirk Jansen appointed as dean CEG

TU Delft’s Executive Board has appointed Professor Jan Dirk Jansen as Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences (CEG) with effect from 1 May 2018. Jan Dirk Jansen succeeds professor Bert Geerken, who will retire in May 2018.

04 March 2018

Dutch hydraulic engineering through the eyes of a Swiss journalist

Dutch hydraulic engineering through the eyes of a Swiss journalist

Mid-January, in the middle of high water in the rivers and a one in twenty year storm event from the North Sea, the Swiss journalist Mathias Plüss visited The Netherlands for a one-week tour along Dutch highlights of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Management. As part of that, he also visited Delft University. His trip resulted in an article, well worth reading, with lots of personal observations on how The Netherlands deal with water.

05 February 2018

Dutch research in the Caribbean

Dutch research in the Caribbean

From Feb 5th to Feb 11th, a unique research cruise initiated by Environmental Fluidmechanics will take place in the Caribbean. During this week, the Dutch research vessel Pelagia will sail from Aruba to St Maarten to perform the first hydrographic survey of an ocean eddy in the region.

04 February 2018

Hurricane Harvey's rainfall partly caused by climate change

Global warming made the extreme rainfall of Hurricane Harvey, which hit Texas in August 2017, three times more likely and fifteen percent more intense than it could have been, scientists, one of whom from TU Delft, found.

01 February 2018

Timelapse of the 1953 great Dutch flood

Timelapse of the 1953 great Dutch flood

25 January 2018

Outstanding academic titles 2017: Unsteady Flow in Open Channels

Outstanding academic titles 2017: Unsteady Flow in Open Channels

Het boek "Unsteady Flow in Open Channels' door Prof. Em. Jurjen Battjes en Robert Jan Labeur is geselecteerd voor de prestigieuze Choice magazine lijst "outstanding academic titles 2017".

21 January 2018

New staff member: PhD student Anne Ton

New staff member: PhD student Anne Ton

A new PhD student has started at the department of Hydraulic Engineering. Anne Ton will study the behaviour of the sandy foreshore in front of the Houtribdijk at the section of Coastal Engineering. In this news article she introduces herself.

02 January 2018

Physical modelling of damage progression on breakwaters

Physical modelling of damage progression on breakwaters

In October/November 2017 Jeroen van den Bos and Bas Hofland joined a team of European researchers in an investigation of physical modelling techniques in a laboratory wave basin in Hannover. The tests were aimed at the application of novel measurement techniques to obtain a better representation of the damage progression of breakwaters.

02 January 2018

New staff member: Arne van der Hout

New staff member: Arne van der Hout

A new lecturer has started at the department of Hydraulic Engineering. Arne van der Hout will work part time at the section of Ports and Waterways. In this news article he introduces himself.