Marloes is an associate professor of water resources management. She currently coordinates the water accounting and crop water productivity group at IHE Delft, which specializes in using remote sensing data and information for various applications. The team currently consists of 7 staff members and works closely with other colleagues within the institute and with our global partner network.
Marloes leads several large scale projects funded by FAO, ADB, World Bank and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, including the IHE Delft contributions to the second phase of the WaPOR project on Monitoring land and water productivity by Remote Sensing and the WaterPIP project. The activities consist of implementing quality assessments and developing user cases of the WaPOR database at different scales. Next to her activities for the water accounting team, she is involved in the EU-funded EUROFLOW project, supervising a PhD student on “Improved reservoir operating policies for implementation of environmental flows”.
Before joining IHE Delft in 2018, Marloes was based in the West Africa Office of IWMI in Accra, Ghana, leading the thematic area of hydrology and water resources. Here she implemented various research projects on river basin management aspects in the Volta basin and in particular related to dam operation for environmental flows, and natural and built infrastructure. In addition, she supported the work on agricultural water management from a hydrology and water management perspective.
Her earlier career started at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, where she worked between 2002 and 2013 as a senior lecturer in water resources management. During this time she also did her PhD while being a visiting lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe. Her PhD research was on ‘Understanding hydrological processes in an ungauged catchment in Southern Africa’, during which she did extensive hydrological fieldwork in the Pangani River Basin in Tanzania. The research formed part of the ‘Smallholder systems innovations in integrated watershed management (SSI)’ project, focusing on enhancing smallholder livelihoods through improving food productivity. After her PhD, Marloes worked on various capacity building and research projects in both Southern Africa and South-East Asia, focusing on issues such as water allocation, addressing and resolving transboundary water issues, small and large dams, integrated natural resource management and integrated water resources management.
Publications
A complete list of publications can be found in Google Scholar.