Archive Open menu Search 299 results Open menu 29 September 2022 ESA selects Harmony as Earth Explorer Flagship Mission After years of in depth scientific and technical studies, ESA member states have formally selected Harmony as its 10th Earth Explorer flagship mission, set to be launched in 2029. Harmony was proposed in 2018 by an international scientific team lead by Dr. Paco López Dekker. Earth Explorer (EE) missions address questions that have a direct bearing on climate change research and other societally relevant issues. Read more 30 August 2022 Bert Wouters in NRC, Standaard, Scientias en Atlas: smelten van de ijskap Wat gaat de Groenlandse ijskap doen? Het is in een wereld die rap opwarmt nog niet zo eenvoudig om dat te voorspellen. Er zijn wel computermodellen die de interactie tussen het klimaat en de ijskap beschrijven, maar die zijn niet perfect, zo stelt onderzoeker Bert Wouters, verbonden aan de Universiteit Utrecht en TU Delft. “Ze doen hun werk goed, maar er zitten nog onzekerheden in. Read more 22 August 2022 20 million EU Grant for research underground heat storage The EU aims to have a net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) economy by 2050. At present, heating and cooling represent around 50% of the final energy demand in Europe and are for a large part supplied by fossil fuel derived energy. Large scale seasonal heat storage is a key strategy to decarbonize heating in order to achieve EU ambitions, because sustainable sources like geothermal and solar provide a lot of heat in summer, while we need it in winter. The PUSH-IT consortium receives this Horizon Europe grant to demonstrate and develop such heat storage systems. PUSH-IT stands for Piloting Underground Seasonal Heat Storage In geothermal reservoirs. Read more 16 August 2022 A deep dive into the blue waters of Curaçao Environmental Engineering student Jessie-Lynn van Egmond is on a thesis adventure, hunting down old groundwater wells to analyse their water quality. So how is the island’s fresh water doing? Has it been subject to salinization or other pollution trends? That’s what Jessie-Lynn hopes to find out. Read more 02 August 2022 How coastal seas help the ocean absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere The biologically productive North Sea impacts the global climate through exchange of carbon and nutrients with the Atlantic Ocean. A Dutch consortium of scientists will investigate how big this role of the North Sea really is. Under the leadership of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), conduct a combination of field studies and computer model simulations will be conducted over the next four years to address this question. Models will be used to determine future effects of environmental and climate change on the North Sea, Atlantic Ocean and ultimately Earth’s climate. TU Delft's Peter Herman and Bram van Prooijen (Civil Engineering & Geoscience) are involved in the research. Read more ... Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 You are on page 17 Page 18 Page 19 ... Share this page: Facebook Linkedin Twitter Email WhatsApp Share this page