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From Utrecht University, Lu Zhou and Henk Dijkstra are working on the research projects.

In the Master’s programme Climate Physics at Utrecht University, education and research are deeply intertwined

Nieuwsartikel over de educatieve samenwerking tussen het Centrum voor Wetenschap en Cultuur en Het Filiaal Theatermakers, rondom Utrechts diepzeeonderzoek.

To celebrate this milestone, a workshop-conference-hackathon-party was organized. The goal of the event was to showcase how Parcels is used by different researchers, and learn from each other.

"Previously, I helped set up several operational weather services disseminated via SMS in Zimbabwe, Mali, Tanzania, and Kenya."

In the final week of the summer holidays, twelve MSc students and IMAU assistant professor Lu Zhou explored Grenoble and Montpellier during the yearly Climate Physics excursion.

The study, published on 14 November in Science Advances, demonstrates how freshwater from the south can slow down the weakening of this crucial ocean current.

Normally acting as a sponge for refreezing meltwater, the snowy layer covering the ice sheet in Greenland is important for the overall fate of the ice sheet, but it’s changing in ways researchers currently do not fully understand.

The study goes beyond the usual sea level projections by quantifying how much sea-level rise in 2300 will be “locked in” by emissions this century.

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.