Our recent symposium brought together researchers, policymakers, innovators, and industry to explore how marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) could develop responsibly in the coming decades.
For ~300,000 years, the same craft endures - perhaps revealing the roots of one of our oldest habits: using technology to steady ourselves against change
22 researchers from Utrecht University, University Medical Center Utrecht, and Princess Máxima Center have each been awarded a Vidi grant worth up to €850,000.
At a time when budget cuts are putting heavy pressure on education, Utrecht University received a remarkable donation: two thin sections and a disc of a lunar meteorite.
By comparing the positions of the fifteen largest political parties, ocean scientists aim to show voters what each party plans for our seas and the ocean.
Marco van Egmond, curator of maps and atlases at the university library, has been interviewed by various media outlets in recent days in response to developments surrounding the world map and the representation of Africa.
Her aim is to uncover how the loss of Arctic sea ice impacts melting of surrounding glaciers. Specifically, she will look at the effects of the rapid loss of sea ice in the Last Ice Area, which harbours the Arctic's oldest ice.
Over thirty promising, young Utrecht researchers will receive a Veni grant of up to 320,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). 1 in 7 Venis went to Utrecht researchers this year.
For this research, Utrecht master student Sophie ten Hietbrink worked for four weeks aboard the research vessel RV Pelagia. On a trip from the Azores to the continental shelf of Europe, she took water samples at 12 locations where she filtered out anything larger than one micrometer.
For the first time, scientists have been able to determine how sea level must have varied also on thousand-year timescales during the last 540 million years.
