Skip to ContentSkip to Navigation
About us Faculty of Spatial Sciences

Japanese students on water management excursion

09 September 2015

As a contribution to the annual summer programme of Osaka University (Japan) at the University of Groningen, the Faculty of Spatial Sciences delivered a water management excursion. The excursion presented and discussed historic infrastructure to deal with flooding - for example, dikes and terps. The field trip also discussed in detail the components of the so-called Zuiderzee project, the multidimensional project as originally presented by Cornelis Lely. Finally, the expected consequences of climate change were discussed and shown. The photo shows the excursion guide, Paul van Steen from the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, with the group in front of a windmill in the town of Sloten in Friesland.

Osaka students on excursion in Friesland
Osaka students on excursion in Friesland
Last modified:09 September 2015 10.54 a.m.
Share this Facebook LinkedIn

More news

  • 11 March 2025

    East Groningen: universal basic services must be up to standard

    Sjierdan Koster makes the case for long-term thinking and for bringing Groningen’s universal basic services up to standard.

  • 05 March 2025

    Women in Science

    The UG celebrates International Women’s Day with a special photo series: Women in Science.

  • 11 February 2025

    Space for your disability

    When it comes to collaborations between researchers from different faculties, the UG is at the top of its game. A prime example is the Disabled City project that researches how the mobility of people with a physical disability can be explored...