31 January 2012 - As of January 1, Zheng Bing Wang, employed by Deltares has been appointed professor Morphodynamics of Lagunes and Estuaries at the Technical University in Delft. The chair of Morphodynamics of Lagunes and Estuaries is a new chair within the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences.

26 January 2012 - The Dutch government's NL Agency has awarded a contract for the provision of consultancy services for the Mekong Delta Plan in Vietnam to a consortium headed by consultancy and engineering firm DHV. Other members of the consortium include Royal Haskoning, Wageningen University & Research Centre, Deltares, RebelGroup and UNESCO-IHE.

16 January 2012 - On Friday, January 13, Peter Wellens defended his PhD-thesis at Delft University of Technology, entitled “Wave simulation in truncated domains for offshore applications”.

11 January 2012 - Deltares and the Institute for Environmental Studies of the VU University Amsterdam are studying microplastics in the marine environment. In a recent project carried out on behalf of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, our main focus was on the North Sea and the development of indicators for the implementation of the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive.

10 January 2012 - Edition no.6 of VIEWS shines the spotlight on a whole range of international activities. Read the latest on the Flood Control 2015 innovation programme. There is an urgent need for smart, practical methods of flood control, as became all too clear in Thailand last year.