The East Kalimantan project is funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO-WOTRO). One of the main objectives is to increase the general understanding of the behaviour of tropical regions of freshwater influence, which is presumably in response to changing river discharges. Research partner is the Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia.
This project is continued in the "From River Basin to Barrier Reef: physical, biological and socio-economic aspects of the Berau system" project. Within this project two PhD students are studying the Berau delta: