Sanli Faez, Liesbeth van de Grift and Marjolijn Haasnoot participate in a national taskforce that will explore how Dutch climate researchers can join forces for a common agenda for climate research.
The sea butterfly is very sensitive to climate change. As CO2 in the atmosphere increases, it causes acidification of the oceans. The sea butterfly's shell has to take the first hit.
The first land masses rose above sea level 3.7 billion years ago, a billion years earlier than some estimates, and only 800 million years after the formation of the Earth.
Dr Esther Stouthamer has been appointed by the Executive Board of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ as professor Delta Evolution and Subsurface Processes in the department of Physical Geography.
An international team of palaeontologists sectioned the first skeletons of vertebrates to reveal their life cycle and the positions these marine animals occupied in the Earth’s earliest foodwebs.
Researchers have show that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet played a greater role in sea level rise during warm periods in the early Miocene than previously thought.
There is insufficient certainty about the presence of ultra deep heat in the subsurface of Utrecht East for the further development of ultra deep geothermal energy (UDG). This has been shown by seismic research.
The Antonio Feltrinelli prize reserved for Geosciences 2021 has been awarded to Frits Hilgen, associate professor of Geosciences at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ.
High-resolution simulations of ocean circulations 34 million years ago show that the tectonic opening of Southern Ocean seaways caused a fundamental reorganisation of ocean currents, heat transport and initiated a strong Antarctic surface water cooling of 5 °C.
Though a lack of iron is a factor limiting algal growth in the oceans, more dissolved iron in the ocean East of Greenland due to the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet does not lead to more algae there.
Nadine Smit, researcher at the Royal NIOZ Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, has discovered new chemical tracers to investigate the presence of terrestrial bacteria that consume the powerful greenhouse gas methane.
Paleontologists revised the description a Patagosaurus fossil that was discovered in the 1970s. What were they able to research now, that wasn't possible before?
