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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.

If climate models predict that much of tropical Africa will become wetter with a warming climate, then why does it keep getting drier in the Horn of Africa?

What happened to the lost continent of Argoland? Geologists at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ have managed to reconstruct the history of this microcontinent.

By sharing research facilities and data openly to scientists undertaking research into the subsurface, we aim to improve our collective knowledge and pave the way to a safe and sustainable use of the subsurface.

PhD Dissertation Linda Dämmer

Conflicting records?

Dan Palcu's research shows the immense proportions of the largest lake the Earth has ever seen: the Paratethys.

We invite PhD students at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, from all disciplines, to submit their work on digital labour platforms.

The Focus Area Migration and Societal Change has a vacancy for a Student Assistant.

Research at the La Thuile lake in the Northern French Alps

A fossil unearthed in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area appears to be a new mosasaur species, possibly the oldest mosasaur ever found.

Its existence was predicted over 10 years ago based on fragments of old tectonic plates found deep in the Earth’s mantle.

A team of researchers at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ concludes in the journal Nature, trust in institutions is one of the most significant predictors of whether students will drop out.

Wear marks on mosasaur teeth studied with 3D techniques for the first time

Call for seed money proposals Migration and Societal Change, Spring 2024

As of May 2024, and after several years of successful interdisciplinary collaboration, the Special Interest Group (SIG) Sensors has ceased to exist.

A 400-million-year evolutionary history of euglenoids

Peter Pelzer, associate professor at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, has been nominated by the Dutch National Student Association (ISO) for the national Teacher of the Year election for Higher Education.

Humanities scholars have an important role to play in sustainability issues, students learn in Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ’s new Environmental Humanities minor.

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.