The European Geosciences Union has honoured Prof. Michiel van den Broeke from the Department of Physics and Astronomy’s Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU) with the Louis
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Darwin & NESSC Days: a Two-day Conference
Join for free, and get to know your colleagues at the Darwin Centre and NESSC. A two-day conference including drinks, dinner and overnight, organized by NESSC, the Darwin Centre and
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Dr. Sarah Bradley from Utrecht University studies the history and behaviour of ice sheets over the last interglacial, the period in between two ice ages. “This was a period
/ read morePlant traits predict susceptibility to forest fires
Fires in tundra areas and subarctic regions Forest fires cause high CO2 emissions and so contribute to a rise in atmospheric temperature. ‘Where and when forest fires develop also depends
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