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A new study published in Nature unveils a surprising discovery: a substantial amount of meltwater is temporarily stored within the Greenland Ice Sheet during summer months. For the first time, an international group of researchers was able to quantify meltwater with positioning data. The finding challenges current models of how ice sheets contribute to global sea level rise.

Oriol Colomés Gené is awarded a NWO Vidi grant to work on a first digital ocean to assess floating solar farms. The model will enable researchers to study the interactions between the waves, wind and floating solar platforms. Understanding the impact opens doors to work on improving the efficiency of energy production.

As Europe pushes to meet its renewable energy targets, geothermal energy, with its potential to provide a reliable and climate-friendly source of heat, must be scaled up. The new EU-funded FindHeat consortium, led by TU Delft, will develop an innovative toolkit to support more efficient and sustainable exploitation of geothermal energy. It will reduce technical and economic risks and boost public support.

The American Meteorological Society has elected Remko Uijlenhoet as Fellow for his outstanding contributions to the hydrometeorological sciences over a substantial period of years. In particular, his research on the development of remote sensing techniques for measuring the variation of precipitation in space and time, among other things crucial for the understanding and prediction of hydrological processes in river catchments, led AMS to appoint Remko as Fellow. One of the innovations Remko has worked on with students, PhD candidates and colleagues over the past 20 years is the use of microwave links from cellular communication networks to measure precipitation, particularly important in areas where little to no rain gauges or weather radars can be found, such as in the Global South.

How do you get people out of the car? The alternative should be a seamless, comfortable and affordable journey. A case study with the public transport provider RET in Rotterdam has now progressed to the point where travellers will soon be able to plan their multimodal trip through their app, including bus, tram and metro combined with micromobility services. A TU Delft research team has designed a short-term forecasting algorithm to predict demand and micromobility fleet availability (like shared bikes and e-scooters of Check, Tier, NS and more) in real-time. Multimodal trips are then designed taking the available resources into account that will be incorporated in a single app. This way, researchers from the Seamless Shared Urban Mobility project hope to attract travellers in Rotterdam who might doubt using multimodal trips due to uncertainty on the availability of micromobility fleet as part of their trip plan.

Elephants, monkeys, giraffes, polar bears and lions, BSc student Karian Bruyndonckx enjoys the company of these creatures on her daily lunchtime stroll through the zoo. But while other visitors admire the animals, Karian sees something entirely different. She has a unique perspective on the zoo, one that reaches deep beneath the surface…