Ongoing subsidence is an complex problem in the Dutch lowlands for cities and polder land. Old strategies for coping have bottom limits. New strategies will be arranged and the pacing of subsidence mapped and modelled, so that the measures to negotiate and decide on have figures in mm and €.

The project focuses on understanding the role of microbial decomposition in land subsidence. First, the decomspotiion rates in botanically different peatlands will be monitored in the Netherlands. Then,  major drivers of microbial decomspiotion rates such as substrate, pore-water chemistry and microbial community will be studied. At last, the evidences for interaction between biological and physical land subsidence processes will be collected.

• prof. mr. dr. Frank Groothuijse
• dr. ir. Dries Hegger
• dr. Gilles Erkens
• dr. ir. M.M. (Mariet) Hefting
• prof. mr. Marleen van Rijswick
• prof. dr. Peter Driessen
• dr. Kim Cohen
• prof. dr. Esther Stouthamer
• Ruth de Klerk
• dr. Oscar van Vliet
• Kim de Wit MSc
• Bente Lexmond MSc
• Pepijn van Elderen MSc

• Gilles Erkens (Deltares)
• Bernardien Tiehatten (LOSS)
• Prof. Ramon Hanssen (TU Delft)
• J.G. Rots (TU Delft)
• K.G. Gavin (TU Delft)
• Prof. Ekko van Ierland (WUR)
• Prof. Hans-Peter Weikard (WUR)
• Jan Willem van Groenigen (WUR)
• Jan JH van den Akker (WUR)
• Dr. Mandy Korff (TUD
• Deltares)
• Dr. Peter Fokker (TNO Geological Survey of the Netherlands)