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Electrical activity in the dark

You would expect scientists to know all there is to know about diatoms. They are after all a major group of microorganisms found in the oceans, waterways and soil all over the world, numbering in the trillions.

Extended urbanisation in the North Sea

The North Sea is not only a huge body of water but also a site of unfolding urbanisation processes. Marie Curie Fellow Nancy Couling is mapping layers of different uses of the North Sea to illustrate the high levels of urbanisation.

Listening to the waves

Analysis of ‘inaudible’ infrasound high in the stratosphere can improve weather forecasting and climate models, Dr Pieter Smets (Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences) believes. Ocean waves can be a good source of this infrasound.

Static Liquefaction Tank

A huge tank filled with water and sand has been placed on the ground floor of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences. It will test solutions for problems with the seabed of the Eastern Scheldt Storm Surge barrier.

Living on a drilling platform

If oil and gas extraction ends in the future, there will be about 150 unused drilling platforms in the North Sea. What can we do with them? Recent graduate Benjamin Kamper has a solution.

Another wind

According to the Energy Agreement, wind farms at sea will become the most important energy source in the Netherlands. Professor Simon Watson (faculty of Aerospace Engineering), the new director of the Delft research institute for wind energy, DUWIND, outlined the new research agenda in his inaugural address.

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