Delta-ENIGMA provides infrastructure for intensive field and experimental laboratory research to understand how organisms, currents, waves, water discharge and sediment transport jointly shape the Dutch delta-landscape. This integrated approach, known as biogeomorphology, lies at the core of Delta-ENIGMA. The program serves as the Dutch contribution to DANUBIUS-RI, a European research infrastructure for studying river-delta-coastal systems. The consortium members are Utrecht University, TU Delft, University of Twente, Wageningen University & Research, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Deltares and TNO. Delta-ENIGMA is coordinated by the Department of Physical Geography at Utrecht University.

The Sinderhoeve is an experimental field station with a variety of facilities for both aquatic and terrestrial research on the effects of chemicals in the environment, as well as more basic ecological research questions. It provides possibilities to perform experiments supporting the higher tiers in environmental risk assessment. The Sinderhoeve is part of Wageningen Environmental Research but is also available for research from external parties.

This series of facilities hosts different types of flume systems which serve to control water movement by a combination of flow and waves. The flume systems are used to study how water movement affects spatial development, functioning and resilience of the estuarine and coastal ecological landscape. The facility also hosts a wave mesocosm, to study the interaction between hydrodynamics and benthic organisms.

This underwater laboratory is used to study how to enhance biodiversity on subtidal, hard substrates, like dikes and other man-made structures like pillars or offshore wind farms. The facility is unique in bringing the hard to reach subtidal environment to the easily accessible tidal area of the Eastern Scheldt at the very doorstep of NIOZ at Yerseke, Zeeland. It is a collaboration between Rijkswaterstaat, Hogeschool Zeeland and NIOZ.