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NCR Summer School 2025

The Netherlands Centre for River studies (NCR) aims at disseminating its expertise through the organization of a Summer School. From the 7th until the 11th of July 2025 the NCR and the University of Twente organized the second NCR Summer School for PhD students, postdocs and young professionals working with rivers. It consisted of a series of lectures and tutorials in topics such as River Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics, Ecohydraulics, Sediment Transport and River Morphodynamics, both from a technical and a management perspective. An excursion to the Pannerdensche Kop (bifurcation point of the Waal and Pannerdensch Canal) was also part of the Summer School.

Dates & location

The 2nd Summer School took place from 7-11 July 2025 at the green campus of the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.

Program

Lecturers:

  • Koen Blanckaert (Vienna University of Technology) – Flow and sediment transport in three-dimensional flows
  • Victor Chavarrias (Deltares) – Hands-on: Numerical modelling
  • Frank Collas (Radboud University) – Riverine Ecology
  • Gertjan Geerling (Radboud University) – Ecology of Large Rivers
  • Ton Hoitink (Wageningen University and Research) – Tidal rivers
  • Suzanne Hulscher (University of Twente) – River morphodynamics
  • Fredrik Huthoff (IHE) –  River dynamics across scales: do we need to learn the hard way?
  • Vasileios Kitsikoudis (University of Twente) – Processing of flow velocity measurements in turbulent open-channel flows
  • Maarten Kleinhans (Utrecht University) – Explaining patterns and dynamics of rivers and estuaries: where to carve nature at its joints?
  • Erik Mosselman (TU Delft & Deltares) – River training: objectives, effects and research
  • Ellis Penning (Deltares) – Quantifying the role of vegetation in ecohydraulic studies
  • Menno Straatsma (Utrecht University) – Remote sensing of the fluvial environment
  • Wim Uijttewaal (TU Delft) – Fluid mechanics of shallow environmental flows
  • Saskia van Vuren (Rijkswaterstaat) – Delta-management: dealing with uncertainty while preparing for the future
  • Kryss Waldschlager (Wageningen University & research) – Transport of Microplastics in the Aquatic Environment