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🚢 Discover the Deltares Lock Facility! This facility supports engineers and researchers in developing innovative solutions for modernising and maintaining lock infrastructure, ensuring it meets current and future standards. Research in the Lock Facility ensures safe and efficient passage for large vessels through locks and optimises levelling systems to minimise delays and protect vessels. Key features include: 🛳 Hydrodynamic testing: The facility measures forces on vessels and flow velocities during the levelling process. 💻 Integrated approach: Combines physical scale model tests with computer simulations to evaluate and improve levelling systems. ⚙ Applications: Used to ensure smooth passage for large vessels, optimise filling and emptying operations, and protect against scour. 🔗 Learn more about our Lock Facility > https://rebrand.ly/puf1551 #EnablingDeltaLife #FacilityFriday #LockFacility

🌊 Hoe zorgen we ervoor dat onze stormvloedkeringen ook in de toekomst effectief blijven? Om die vraag te beantwoorden is het Storm Surge Barrier Delta (SSB-Δ) project opgezet. Deltares is betrokken bij dit project. Nederland staat voor grote uitdagingen als het gaat om waterbeheer en bescherming tegen overstromingen. Stormvloedkeringen zoals de #Maeslantkering en de #Oosterscheldekering spelen een cruciale rol in onze verdediging tegen de zee. “Met dit consortium kunnen we de kennis ontwikkelen die nodig is om ons land veilig en leefbaar te houden met de huidige stormvloedkeringen. Dit vereist technische kennis, inzicht in de interactie tussen keringen en systeem, en methoden om lange-termijn ontwikkelingen naar korte-termijn acties te vertalen.” - Esther van Baaren, Deltares-expert stormvloedkeringen en leefbare delta's. 🔗 Lees het volledige artikel op onze website > https://rebrand.ly/4998be Het Storm Surge Barrier Delta (SSB-Δ) project wordt de komende 5 jaar gefinancierd door NWO (Dutch Research Council), Betrokken Deltares-experts: Marjolijn Haasnoot | Timo Schweckendiek | Esther van Baaren | Martijn de Jong | Ferdinand Diermanse | Renske de Winter #EnablingDeltaLife #Stormvloedkeringen #Zeespiegelstijging #Overstromingen

🌱 Hoe kunnen agrariërs beter omgaan met wisselende wateromstandigheden? 💪 Vorige week hebben Deltares-experts Stefan Jansen, Niels Mulder, Joachim Rozemeijer, Vince Kaandorp, Kim Gommans, en Anik Dutta van de Delft University of Technology een nieuwe stap gezet binnen het Zoetwaterboeren project. Op een boerderij in Anna Paulowna legden zij een innovatief filter aan met houtsnippers en ijzerzand. Dit nieuwe filter verwijdert nitraat en fosfaat uit het drainwater voordat het in het oppervlaktewater terecht komt. 💬 "Dit is de eerste keer dat we deze combinatie van ijzerzand en houtsnippers testen, en we zijn dan ook erg benieuwd naar de resultaten." - Kim Gommans, onderzoeker bodem en grondwaterkwaliteit. 📸 Op de foto’s zie je de kale bergen ijzerzand en houtsnippers, work in progress en het eindresultaat. Het project Zoetwaterboeren biedt innovatieve oplossingen en tools om een duurzaam watersysteem te ontwikkelen en te beheren. Binnen het project werken we samen met Vertify, Wageningen University & Research, Pipelife Nederland B.V. en andere partners aan het sluiten van de water- en stofkringlopen op een boerderij in Anna Paulowna. #EnablingDeltaLife #VeldwerkVrijdag #FieldworkFriday

🚢⚓How can Rotterdam Port businesses prepare for water challenges? Both the quality and availability of water are changing due to new regulations, climate change, and infrastructure adjustments. This affects water transport, quality, availability, and safety against flooding. Commissioned by SmartPortRdam, Deltares conducted a study to help port businesses prepare for these changes. Port businesses face both short- and long-term challenges, such as logistical constraints during dry summers and stricter water quality requirements by the end of 2027. Suggested measures include adapting barge fleets to changing river discharges, using water more economically in industrial processes, and participating in national and regional water improvement programmes. This study is part of the preparation for the SmartPort Summit 2024. Learn more about the study on our website > https://rebrand.ly/5bgybqd #EnablingDeltaLife #PortofRotterdam #SmartPortSummit2024 Wiebe De Boer | Ferdinand Diermanse

🌍🔎 Climate change is most often framed as an environmental issue, but it has a far-reaching impact that transcends borders and disciplines. So how can we explore climate action through a broader lens? Join our online discussion to find out! 📅 Join us on Tuesday, 12 November from 12:00 - 13:00 CET. Register via https://rebrand.ly/9d6sxb4 Climate change affects not only the environment, but also impacts (geo-)political, social, and economic dimensions. During the online dialogue, we’ll explore whether the current climate dialogue and action agenda adequately address these interconnected challenges and whether voices from diverse sectors, regions, and disciplines are fully represented in decision-making processes. Participants will look at climate action through interdisciplinary lenses and practices, fostering an inclusive space for exchange. This is your opportunity to share knowledge, engage with diverse perspectives, and help shape meaningful change. Speakers include: Berend Lolkema, Associate Professor on Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) at UTEC - Universidad Tecnológica in Uruguay Myisha Ahmad, Climate and Water Management Specialist at Carthago Consultancy Ryan R. Peterson,  Chair of the National Climate Resilience Council of Aruba (NCRC Aruba). Natalia Aleksandrova, Expert in Climate Change Hazards and Hydrodynamics at Deltares The dialogue is part of our Unlearning and Relearning series and will be co-hosted with The Water Channel. Shahnoor Hasan | MetaMeta #EnablingDeltaLife #OnlineDialogue #JoinUs #ClimateAction

🤔🏙️ How can we enhance our knowledge and action perspectives to make the built environment more resilient to drought, both now and in the future? Our new research project ‘Thirsty Cities’ is going to find out! Together with the Hogeschool Rotterdam, Deltares will work on developing action perspectives in collaboration with universities, knowledge institutions, and partners from the field. Nanco Dolman, water-resilient cities expert at Deltares and project lead: ‘The Thirsty Cities project is important because as knowledge improves, better, accessible, action perspectives emerge. This is an important contribution to a water-aware, climate- and drought-resilient urban area.’ Deltares works on applied research projects focusing on urban areas. Examples include the sustainable construction of wadis to alleviate difficulties with excess water, and the monitoring of water quality. The project is funded by the NWO (Dutch Research Council). Want to know more? Check 🔗 https://rebrand.ly/36fvhug.   Nanco Dolman | Frans van de Ven | Ted Veldkamp #EnablingDeltaLife #UrbanResilience #cities #drought

💡 Great to meet with the Innovatie Attaché Netwerk / IA (Netherlands Innovation Network), who are gathering in the Netherlands this week. The network is composed of Dutch innovation attachés from embassies around the world.   Our director, Annemieke Nijhof, set out Deltares’ unique position in the field of water and subsurface, and the links to international innovation opportunities. The attachés also heard from our experts Sarah Wright and Robin Morelissen, discussing water-related challenges across the world. The session provided valuable mutual insights and actionable follow-ups for all. The attachés gained a better understanding of how to connect the Dutch water knowledge to their local stakeholders. For us it was great to reconnect with representatives from across the world, with whom we’ll continue to work on water-related issues. #Deltares #WaterManagement #InternationalCollaboration #InnovationNetwork 

🎉 Congratulations to our friends and colleagues at the NWP (Netherlands Water Partnership) on their 25th anniversary! The NWP plays a key role in bringing the Dutch water sector's knowledge and expertise to the international stage, connecting partners, and fostering collaboration both in the Netherlands and around the rest of the world.   Deltares is proud to have worked with the NWP and other partners to tackle critical global water challenges. We look forward to continued cooperation to envision the future direction of the international water sector and water-related sectors. Together, we’ll explore opportunities and see how we can effectively work to deliver a prosperous, sustainable future.   We know the next 25 years will be full of challenges, and we look forward to tackling them together!   #EnablingDeltaLife #anniversary #NWP25 #DutchWaterSector #internationalcooperation #innovation

🎧 Hoe benutten we de Noordzee optimaal? Deltares-experts aan het woord in de #GROWtoGO podcast!   In de nieuwste aflevering van #GROWtoGO, de podcast van GROW offshore wind delen Deltares-experts Antonios Emmanouil, adviseur en onderzoeker op het gebied van hydrodynamica en offshore technologie, en Sharon Tatman, expert in mariene en kustsystemen, hun inzichten met David de Jager.    Wat op het eerste gezicht leeg lijkt, blijkt een complexe ruimte waar visserij, scheepvaart, natuurbehoud en offshore wind samenkomen.   Hoe kunnen we deze ruimte slim benutten en samenwerken voor duurzame energie? Luister naar de inzichten van onze experts! > https://rebrand.ly/6f479d   #OffshoreWin #EnablingDeltaLife #Noordzee #DuurzameEnergie #Podcast

🌊🥤 Approximately 10 million tons of plastic enter our oceans every year. This is why it's crucial to research new detection methods. In a pioneering study, scientists from several European universities have developed innovative techniques to detect floating plastic debris in the ocean using advanced remote sensing technologies. 🛰 They did this under the flag of ESA’s Discovery Program on remote sensing of plastic marine litter. Seven research groups came to Deltares for an experimental campaign in our Delta Basin, a large-scale hydrodynamic test facility, to explore the detectability of floating plastics in ocean waves, comparing and contrasting different microwave and optical remote sensing technologies. 📡 Erio Gandini, antenna engineer at the European Space Agency - ESA "This research is of outermost importance for ESA to understand and develop space-based technologies for global monitoring of the ocean to study the evolution of the plastic litter problem, and to trigger interventions in severely affected areas." 📄 Learn more by watching the video or visit our website for more information and the research article published in Springer Nature > https://rebrand.ly/vzbllt1 Thanks to all the researchers and our colleagues Anton de Fockert, Marieke Eleveld, and Wout Bakker for their contributions. 🎥 Winston Films #EnablingDeltaLife #PlasticPollution #Oceans #RemoteSensing #PlasticWaste #DeltaBasin