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“How is the delta landscape shaped?”  

Delta-ENIGMA brings biogeomorphology research in the Netherlands to the next level by providing a unique research infrastructure. The project hopes to answer the question: How do organisms, currents, waves, wind and sediment load shape the delta landscape, even during extreme events? 

Delta-ENIGMA is a Large Scientific Research Infrastructure that will be set up for the coming 10 years in the Dutch delta by the DANUBIUS-NL consortium. The infrastructure will support the interdisciplinary character of the research field at the interface of geomorphology, hydraulics, ecology and engineering.  

Delta-ENIGMA will also sustain and strengthen the prominent Dutch modelling tradition, by providing ‘big data’ to improve existing model approaches, but also push the current physics-based deterministic modelling to a new generation of data-driven approaches. 

Delta-ENIGMA is (partly) financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) from the ‘NWO-LSRI’ Roadmap grant scheme. To intensify international cooperation, Delta-ENIGMA will be integrated into DANUBIUS-RI, the pan-European research infrastructure for advanced studies on river-sea systems.