Flevoland’s water and soil system has been designed to be robust, but is coming under increasing pressure from climate change ...

A revised Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity will come into effect on 1 January 2027. The code provides an up ...

How do you make decisions about climate adaptation when risks are interconnected, knowledge is incomplete, and there is no obvious way forward? Policy hackathons can help policymakers and planners ...

Is it possible to move an entire section of coastal landscape and then expose it to an extreme storm? That is exactly what researchers from Deltares, Wageningen University & Research, NIOZ, University ...

The Scheldt Flume is a state-of-the art wave flume with a total length of 110 m. The flume has wave generators at both sides, which enables one to use for wave generation and one for wave dissipation.

Applied research in soil-structure interaction requires a wide range of expertise and experienced personnel, (generic) & advanced test facilities, and space to design, build and then conduct the ...

The Delta Basin (50 x 50 m) is a multidirectional wave basin with segmented wave paddles. The wave generator is capable of generating both regular (periodic) as irreguler (random) long-crested or ...

Until the 1990s, the Mekong river was one of the most pristine in the world. But increased economic activity, including sand extraction, has caused it to become one of the world’s most vulnerable.

After a forty-year career, biologist and Deltares expert Mindert de Vries has retired from the field. He has made a ...

The Netherlands can prepare more effectively for the impacts of climate change by working with nature alongside technical ...

Storm surge barriers are vital to safeguarding the Netherlands from rising sea levels and extreme weather events. These imposing structures, such as the Maeslant Barrier and the Eastern Scheldt ...

Adaptation to the effects of climate change is becoming increasingly important. A tool that can help deal with such a long-term uncertainty is the adaptive pathways method, in which pivotal decisions ...