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Data vital to decision making, Hydroinformatics Professor Ioana Popescu says at her inauguration
Hydroinformatics presents a fascinating intersection of hydrology, computer science, and data analytics, offering boundless opportunities to address pressing water-related challenges facing our world today. It helps decision makers to understand these challenges, as ultimately they are the ones to make the decisions, Ioana Popescu said at her inauguration as Professor of Hydroinformatics.
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MSc in Water and Sustainable Development: South East Asia info session
Join our info session to gain insights into our MSc programmes in Water and Sustainable Development. Learn about studying at IHE Delft, and ask questions regarding both the regular and research programmes, admission criteria, scholarships and more.
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Justice and sustainability key as project seeks to improve food production systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
With Sub-Saharan Africa's population now exceeding 1 billion, the demand for food in the region has significantly increased. In combination with many people migrating from rural to urban areas in search of better opportunities, this puts rural agricultural communities and ecosystems under pressure to supply more food. But an increase in food production comes at a heavy cost—natural landscapes are used for agriculture, leading to soil degradation and overexploitation of water resources.
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IHE Delft partners with the Netherlands Centre for River studies network
IHE Delft has partnered with the Netherlands Centre for River studies (NCR), a consortium of eight Dutch organisations focussed on improving the understanding of the behaviour of rivers, a move that is expected to strengthen the Institute’s interdisciplinary river work.
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MSc alumna’s research aims to help flood-proof cities
With rapid urbanization, the global population that lives in urban areas is projected to increase to two-thirds by 2050. Cities, with their dense built environment and paved-over surfaces, are often ill equipped to handle the masses of water brought by increasingly frequent severe floods. There are several efforts to find solutions to this challenge, which will become more severe with climate change. An IHE Delft MSc student combines two approaches in her research and practice, finding that applying them both concurrently significantly increases their impact – and, most importantly, bridges the gap between good ideas and implementation.
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Field trip to Marker Wadden kicks off Netherlands Centre for Coastal Research conference
Marker Wadden, an artificial archipelago created to restore the ecosystem of a Dutch lake, started as a dream, Roel Posthoorn of the Dutch Society for Nature Conservation explained to the 50 participants of a field trip to the Marker Wadden islands. The field trip preceded a two-day conference in mid-March organised by IHE Delft on behalf of the Netherlands Centre for Coastal Research. During the NCK Days conference, 158 coastal experts, masters’ students and PhD candidates shared their insights into coastal resilience.
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Computer-based water modelling: no substitute for thinking
Computer-based models do not think, but there’s a risk that they become substitutes for thinking, researchers at IHE Delft and other knowledge institutions argue in a recent blog that questions the trust water scientists place in models and their results.
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Progress update: Water and Development Partnership Programme proposal call
More than 200 project ideas were received in response to a call by IHE Delft’s Water and Development Partnership Programme for proposals that bring together inter- and transdisciplinary teams to work on finding sustainable solutions to water challenges, redressing injustices and enriching the knowledge on water.
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Call for applications: Water- Energy- Food (WEF) Nexus Training
Achieving water, energy and food (WEF) security is a priority for southern Africa, especially under unfavourable climate changes, increasing urbanisation, population growth, and rapid ecosystem degradation. To do this requires a collaborative and inclusive approach, which considers the interconnections and interdependencies between the three sectors. Over the past decade, this has become known as the WEF Nexus and has rapidly gained traction as a transformative approach to achieve sustainable natural resources management and socio-economic development.
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MSc in Water and Sustainable Development interactive webinars
Join one of our webinars to gain insights into our MSc programmes in Water and Sustainable Development. Learn about the MSc and ask questions regarding both the regular and research programmes, admission criteria, the application process and more. Each webinar will feature two keynote lectures; details are provided below.