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Marcel J.F. Stive (Amsterdam, February 25 1951) is a Dutch professor of Coastal Engineering at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences of Delft University of Technology.

Eductation
Marcel Stive studied Civil engineering at the Delft University of Technology, where he graduated in 1977 and received his doctorate in 1988.

Career
After graduating in 1977 Stive started working at WL-Delft Hydraulics, were he worked until 1992. In 1992 he became a professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain. In 1994 her returned to WL-Delft Hydraulics and at the same time began to work as a professor of Coastal Morphodynamics at the Delft University of Technology.

Other activities
Stive has been a consultant to the IPCC subgroup on Coastal Zone Vulnerability to Sea-level Rise since 1990 and is scientific director of the Water Research Centre Delft since 2003.

In 2008 Stive became part of the second Dutch Delta Committee, an independent Committee of State and successor of the 1953 Delta Committee (advising on the Delta Works), in which he gave advice on Flood control in the Netherlands for the next century.

Since 2010 Stive is leading a InterAcademy Panel team, to produce a UN targeted report on crucial water issues, which involves the commitment of National Science Foundation’s around the world.

Stive is the inventor of the Sand Engine. A total of 21.5 million cubic metres sand, spreading 128 hectares in size, that has been applied along the coast of South Holland at Ter Heijde in 2011. It is an innovative method for Coastal management. Furthermore Stive is an expert advisor to several national governments. For example Vietnam on the Mekong Delta, China on Land reclamation in Jiangsu and the United States on the Mississippi River and San Francisco Bay Area.

Awards
In 2011 Stive received a Honorary degree at the Lund University in Sweden because of his to his significant scientific contribution to the understanding of how climate change will affect the world’s coastal areas.

Exterernal links

 * Homepage Marcel Stive
 * Interview Wired Magazine