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Building with Nature Solutions in Flood Defenses. Looking for a student to start straightaway (early 2020).

How can you build foundations for offshore wind turbines creating as little disturbance as possible?

Vincent Vuik has been awarded the price of the Wadden Academy for his PhD thesis Building Safety with Nature. Salt Marshes for Flood Risk Reduction.

Fact-finding study for flooding of Venice (Nov 2019) and performance of the MOSE barrier.

Sand is the second most widely used raw material in the world, after water. Sand dunes keep our country safe from flooding.

Freshwater is vital for drinking water, nature, agriculture and industry. However, the availability of freshwater is under pressure in deltas throughout the world. Salty seawater is penetrating further up the rivers due to human intervention, such as the deepening of waterways, as equally climate change.

Looking for a MDP group that is interested in developing coastal adaptation measures to sea level rise.

M.Sc. Thesis: Fluid mechanics of trash clogging hydraulic structures in Indonesia

Within the programme Living Labs in the Dutch Delta researchers of Delft University of Technology will coordinate two projects. They are focused on large-scale nature-based interventions in the coastal and river area: the Sand Motor and the Hedwige-Prosperpolder.

Column by Ties Rijcken.