Delta Alliance News and Events Archive | Webinar: Coastal evolution and management: a new tool to understand the past and future (4 July 2019) IHE Delft Professor Roelvink will take you on a tour along typical coasts to show you the serious problems we are already facing and will be exacerbated by sea level rise and changes in wind and wave climate. He will pick your brains on tools and ideas to keep our precious coastlines. IHE Delft, Wednesday 3 July 2019 | | Inaugural address Prince Claus Chair: Looking into the crystal ball (Professor Veena Srinivasan) Inaugural address as Professor to the Prince Claus Chair in
Development and Equity 2018/2020 on 7 May 2019 by Professor Veena Srinivasan, Utrecht University. Title: Looking into the crystal ball: Anticipating and influencing change in Asian deltas. Utrecht University, Tuesday 18 June 2019 | | Signing ceremony Joint Cooperation Programme Bangladesh - the Netherlands The signing ceremony of the Joint Cooperation Programme between Bangladesh and the Netherlands took place on 18 June 2019. This four-year programme, funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is set up amongst the Institute of Water Modelling (IWM), the Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS), Wageningen University and Research (WUR) and Deltares. It is aimed at developing and initiating long term knowledge sharing and capacity building amongst these institutes in the fields of integrated water resources management and adaptive planning. WUR, Deltares, Tuesday 18 June 2019 | | Bangladesh Delta Bulletin, no. 1 This newsletter contains short messages, news and announcements, with the objective to share knowledge and experience related to adaptive delta management and the implementation of the Bangladesh Delta Plan. It is prepared by the Delta Alliance, as a pilot for information sharing, on quarterly basis. Your contributions are very welcome! Delta Alliance, Monday 20 May 2019 | | Publication: DMDU into Practice: Adaptive Delta Management in The Netherlands Reference: Bloemen P.J.T.M., Hammer F., van der Vlist M.J., Grinwis P., van Alphen J. (2019) DMDU into Practice: Adaptive Delta Management in The Netherlands. In: Marchau V., Walker W., Bloemen P., Popper S. (eds) Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty. Springer, Cham. Monday 15 April 2019 | | TU Delft cooperates with Vietnam in training water professionals Over the next three years, TU Delft will support Vietnam in training water management professionals. The ‘Climate Proof Vietnam’ programme was officially launched on 10 April in Hanoi. To this end, Minister Cora van Nieuwenhuizen (I&W), together with her Vietnamese colleague Deputy Minister Vo Tuan Nhan, launched a Delft underwater drone for water quality testing in a lake in Hanoi. TU Delft, Monday 15 April 2019 | | Vacancy Utrecht University: Postdoc position on Water and Climate Governance in Deltas Utrecht University has opened a Postdoctoral Researcher position in the field of Water and Climate Governance in Deltas with a focus on pathways towards sustainable and future-proof Deltas worldwide. Deadline application: 10 May 2019. Utrecht University, Monday 15 April 2019 | | Publication: Exploration of the importance of physical properties of Indonesian peatlands to assess critical groundwater table depths, associated drought and fire hazard Reference: Exploration of the importance of physical properties of Indonesian peatlands to assess critical groundwater table depths, associated drought and fire hazard (2019). M. Taufik, A.A. Veldhuizen, J.H.M. Wösten,H.A.J. van Lanen, Geoderma, Volume 347, 1 August 2019, Pages 160-169 WUR, Saturday 13 April 2019 | | UDW-call on Connecting Worlds of Knowledge (deadline 1 May 2019) At the annual meeting of the Urbanising Deltas of the World (UDW) research and innovation programme, a call on Connecting Worlds of Knowledge was launched. NWO, Wednesday 3 April 2019 | | Publication: Rethinking sediments, tidal rivers and delta livelihoods: tidal river management as a strategic innovation in Bangladesh Freiburg University and IHE Delft, Thursday 7 March 2019 |
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