Thijs Damsma received an MSc in Coastal Engineering from the University of Delft, Civil Engineering (2009). During his MSc thesis, he studied the historical interactions between dunes and beaches on the Dutch coast. In order to visualise this data in all four dimensions (3D+time), he experimented with visualisation in Google Earth. In 2010 he joined Van Oord as an environmental engineer remaining an active developer for OpenEarth.