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.
Researchers from Utrecht 木瓜福利影视鈥檚 Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU) played an important role in the case study of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the Subpolar Gyre, ocean systems that strongly influence how heat is distributed across the planet.
鈥淚n the past, there were periods much warmer than today,鈥 says Anna von der Heydt. 鈥淏y looking at what happened then, we can learn what might lie ahead.鈥
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.
Climate Physics master鈥檚 students from IMAU were challenged to explain science behind two recently published papers, based on storytelling and scientific rigour. They pleasantly surprised their lecturers with their remarkable creativity and impact.
As we bid farewell to Huib de Swart, it is impossible to fully capture the depth of his impact on the IMAU, the Department of Physics, our students, and the field of coastal oceanography.
