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Can collisions of tectonic plates set off a global chain reaction? They can, says a study by Douwe van Hinsbergen and his team.

Docenten aardrijkskunde zijn van harte welkom in het Tektoniek Modelleer Laboratorium van de Universiteit Utrecht

Hoewel ijzergebrek de groei van algen in zee vaak beperkt, leidt het ijzer dat vrijkomt uit het smelten van de Groenlandse ijskap niet tot meer algenbloei in de oceaan ten oosten van Groenland.

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.

Planetoïde (563318) = 2016 CD144 staat voortaan bekend als (563318) ten Kate, naar planeetwetenschapper en astrobioloog Inge Loes ten Kate.

Planetoid (563318) = 2016 CD144 will henceforth be known as (563318) ten Kate, after planet scientist and astrobiologist Inge Loes ten Kate.

Een internationaal team van paleontologen heeft de skeletten van de eerste gewervelde dieren onderzocht om meer te weten te komen over hun levenscyclus en de plek die ze innamen in de vroegste voedselketens van de aarde.

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.

Dankzij een nieuwe methode kunnen we de zeespiegel tot 540 miljoen jaar terug achterhalen.

A new method has enabled us to determine the global sea level up to 540 million years ago.

To recognize and promote excellence in student research as well as awareness in our field, the focus area Migration and Societal Change awards the best master’s thesis.

Jack Middelburg is benoemd tot een van de AGU Fellows van 2022 door de American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Jack Middelburg (dept. of Earth Sciences) has been elected as an American Geophysical Union Fellow

Inge Loes ten Kate benoemd tot bijzonder hoogleraar Planeetwetenschappen en Astrobiologie

Inge Loes ten Kate appointed as Professor by special appointment for Planetary Sciences and Astrobiology

Via analyse van Australische gesteenteformaties kon de afstand tot de Maan en de lengte van de dag nauwkeurig worden bepaald voor 2,46 miljard jaar geleden

Through detailed rock analysis scientists were able to reconstruct how far the Earth and the Moon were from each other 2.46 billion years ago

The Global Education Lab flagship at UGlobe partners with societal partners from around the world to address inequalities in education globally. Four sub-projects provide an update on their activities.

The discovery was made during work in a subterranean quarry in the village of Sibbe in southern Limburg.