André van der Westhuysen has been extensively involved in nearshore wave model development to protect the low-lying Netherlands against flooding from the sea.

At the International Young Scientists' Global Change Conference that took place 5-8 November 2006 in Beijing, China, she received the honourable Professor Crutzen Prize for best paper.

Irina Marinov pursued postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a NOAA Fellow in Climate and Global Change. These papers report on her work.