Latest news Open menu Search 295 results rss Open menu 27 August 2020 Dashboard for monitoring the 1.5m social distance rule Together with the local council of Nijmegen and the national police, pedestrian behaviour expert Dorine Duives will develop an analysis module to monitor crowding in risk areas in the town and to determine to what extent the 1.5m social distancing rule are adhered to. Read more 27 August 2020 The Netherlands was almost 3% sunnier during the coronavirus crisis The amount of solar radiation that reached the Earth’s surface increased during the period when measures to limit the spread of coronavirus were in place. Researchers Pier Siebesma and Marieke Dirksen (KNMI/TU Delft) came to that conclusion. Read more 20 August 2020 Greenland Ice Sheet experienced record losses in 2019, and it won’t stop there The Greenland Ice Sheet recorded a new record mass loss in 2019, other glaciers in the Arctic region have also been severely affected by the summer of 2019. Read more 02 July 2020 Bricks made out of mud and cow-dung to regulate indoor climate During his research career, Yask Kulshreshtha has been on a quest to invent new building materials that are affordable, locally available and help to reuse organic waste materials. He has for instance developed solutions to make traditional mud houses in rural India water resistant. Read more 30 June 2020 Historic floods reveal how salt marshes can save lives in the future Coastal wetlands like salt marshes are increasingly recognized as valuable natural defenses that protect coasts against strong wave attacks. Read more 23 June 2020 New measuring equipment accurately maps out the atmosphere above the TU Delft Campus A compact and mobile cloud radar will deliver high resolution images of the cloud compositions above the TU Delft Campus. Read more 11 June 2020 Help from an unexpected quarter: geosciences data techniques can help predict corona spread An international team of scientists is studying the possibility of using data assimilation, a data technique from geosciences, to predict the spread of coronavirus and the efficacy of certain measures. TU Delft geoscientists on the team think that data assimilation might prove a useful tool for the RIVM epidemiologists. A paper on the subject has been submitted to scientific journal Foundations of Data Science. Read more ... Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 You are on page 28 Page 29 Page 30 ... Share this page: Facebook Linkedin Twitter Email WhatsApp Share this page