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De eerste drifters zijn deze week vanaf een boot in zee losgelaten. De locatie van de drifters is live te volgen op een interactieve kaart.

The first batch of drifters was put to sea from a boat this week. The location of the drifters can be followed live on an interactive map.

As of 1 November, Erik van Sebille has been appointed as Professor. His chair is the first in the Netherlands to combine climate research, oceanography and public engagement.

'As meteorologist at Infoplaza I now work for Dutch companies that somehow depend on weather conditions.'

Using a complex climate model, researchers from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� have simulated the collapse of the large-scale ocean circulation in the Atlantic Ocean.

'It is a great job, acting as coordinator between the forecasters/users, the developer Deltares and the ICT people at Rijkswaterstaat.'

Does the ocean belong to humanity? To states? Or does the ocean belong to itself? The “Whose Ocean?” project received an Incubator Grant to explore this question and understand its significance.

How do plastic items move through the Wadden Sea? To answer that question, the OceanParcels team went on two expeditions to deploy 24 Stokes drifters.

Zeewierwouden transporteren jaarlijks gemiddeld 56 miljoen ton koolstof naar de diepten van de oceaan

The world’s seaweed forests transport 56 million tonnes of carbon (between 10 to 170 million tonnes) to deep ocean sinks each year.

Oratie van oceanograaf Sybren Drijfhout op 22 juni

Inaugural lecture of oceanographer Sybren Drijfhout on 22 June

In the Caribbean, most of the tourist resorts are built right next to the beach, while 50% of the population lives less than 1.5 km from the coast.

Many weather enthusiasts will be familiar with the following problem: people do not always agree with you on what exactly is to be called ‘nice weather’.

NESSC research

Terugblik op de lezingen- en debatavond over de mogelijke gevolgen van zeespiegelstijging

Lectures and debate on possible consequences of sea level rise

From now on, let’s only build no-regret waterworks, argues Peter Kuipers Munneke in NRC.

Forse actie is snel nodig om onder 2 °C klimaatopwarming te blijven, concluderen onderzoekers uit Utrecht en Oxford in Earth System Dynamics.

Strong action is needed to keep warming below 2 °C, conclude Utrecht and Oxford researchers in Earth System Dynamics.