About Liduin Bos - Burgering

In June 2015, Liduin started as a consultant/researcher hydrogeology at Deltares, an independent, non-for-profit, research institute based in the Netherlands. In the following years she developed herself as modeler and data analyst on different aspects: groundwater, unsaturated zone, evapotranspiration and the influence of climate change on these aspects.

Drought and fresh water storage related problems are two key processes she further specialised in and she hopes to specialise even further in during the coming years (never stop learning, right!).

Working at Deltares makes it possible to combine different subjects and working in multidisciplinary teams with team members from inside and outside of Deltares to keep our Dutch delta livable. In her day-to-day job she combines research with consultancy and likes to keep up with new innovations regarding measuring and monitoring.

She said: “The dynamicity and complexity of the subjects make my job a big but exciting challenge every day. Contributing to the Deltares Moonshot “Resilient and healthy water systems for people and nature” is in my core ambition.”

For the Netherlands drought became a hot/important topic as well, since the last couple of summers where excessively dry compared to the years before. This has an impact on the whole Dutch water management system. Not only on the physical parts but also in the way of thinking.

Since January 2023 she started working as a PhD candidate at TU Delft within the WUNDER project focusing on drought in the Dutch agricultural sector to better understand evapotranspiration processes linked to hydrological modelling.

Project example

Up till recent, in the Netherlands we were perfectly capable of dealing with too much water and protecting ourselves from flooding, but a lack of water is something new that needs a different approach.

Together with Deltares colleagues, Liduin has performed a re-analyses on the past drought events by looking at the groundwater levels and how they developed over time as well as looking into measures that are most effective on the long term, like creating water buffers around nature areas or restricting the maximum irrigation abstraction rates.

Combining all the different aspects of droughts and come up with a thorough but practical analysis and model applications is what she likes about her job.

Other projects

• Grow with the Flow
• Paired drought events
• COASTAR nationaal
• Future droughts 2018
• C3S422Lot1: Global Agriculture
• IMPREX drought
• Deltafact – Evapotranspiration
• Global seasonal drought risk forecast
• HAPS – a feasibility study for water management applications
• Soil moisture field experiment for testing novel in-situ techniques