NCR is the leading cooperative alliance between all major Dutch institutes for river studies. We integrate knowledge, facilitate discussion and promote excellent science.
All-Risk
Duration: 01/06/2017 - 01/06/2022 - 18 research positions
All-Risk aims at supporting the ambitious Dutch Flood Protection Programme (HWBP) objectives when it comes to implementing new flood safety norms, which as of January 2017 are incorporated in the Water Law. The programme consists of 14 PhD research positions, and 4 postdoc research positions. International collaboration with universities in Houston, Tokyo and Berlin will also take place.
VisitRivers2Morrow
active
All-Risk
active
Duration: 06/2017 - 06/2022
VisitPiping in practice
active
Duration: 01/2016 - 12/2021
Developing a generic method to predict piping hazard in a range of natural substrates with realistic heterogeneity, at the site and delta scale, using combined 3D subsurface
DetailsEstuaries shaped by biomorphodynamics, inherited landscape conditions and human interference
active
Duration: 12/2015 - 02/2021
To develop models for large-scale planform shape and size of sandy estuaries and predict past and future, large-scale effects of biomorphological interactions and inherited conditions
DetailsFloods of the Past, Design for the Future
active
Duration: 01/2015 - 12/2021
Combining historical and geological insights with hydraulic numerical modelling to improve estimates of past Rhine river flood magnitudes
DetailsRiverCare
finished
Turning the tide: dynamics of channels and shoals in estuaries with sand and mud
finished
Duration: 10/2014 - 09/2019
Channel-shoal dynamics in estuaries result from geomorphological processes and human interference, for which experiments and numerical models were built
DetailsKPP River research
active
Duration: 01/2012 -
Within KPP project river research (“Kennis Primaire Processen project rivierkundig onderzoek”) questions from the Dutch river authority Rijkswaterstaat are answered by applied research.
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