A Royal Meet-UpOur research at IMAU has real-world implications. We investigate the fate of ice caps and glaciers. We measure the chemical make-up of our atmosphere. We model how the oceans currents and atmospheric winds change in a changing climate. And my group studies plastic litter. National Roadmap for Large-Scale Scientific InfrastructureNWO has awarded funding to the Ruisdael Observatory: an atmospheric monitoring observatory covering the entire country.Meet our new assistent professorMade possible by a Gravitation Grant to the Netherlands Earth System Science Centre (NESSC), I recently started a Tenure Track position in IMAU's Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry Group, which is the perfect opportunity for me to grow in this research field. Inaugural lecture Guus VeldersOne atmosphere: interactions, science and policy"At the moment, I believe that we aren’t paying enough attention - including the politicians in The Hague.” Studying Caribbean eddies"Before joining the NICO expedition, I never really thought about how ocean data were collected." Climate Physics student Anneke Vries joined the scientific team of the NICO expedition organized by NIOZ Sea Research and NWO. Keeping up with the latest technologyWe are very interested in the careers of our former PhD students. In this edition Leonie Derendorp tells us about the choices she has made. 'As a PhD student, one generally has lots of freedom in deciding how to do your work. This was exactly what we missed in our new jobs ' Total range of sea level rise greater than expectedPhD defencesJanuari 2018Modelling the surface mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet and neighbouring ice caps: a dynamical and statistical downscaling approach, Brice Noël March 2018Dynamics of current and sediment in estuaries with different density stratifications, Wei Chen March 2018Wagging the Pacific Dog by its Indian Tail? A west Indian Ocean Precursor to El Niño, Claudia Wieners IMAU newsEditors: Michiel van den Broeke, Rupert Holzinger, Erik van Sebille, Marcel Portanger and Sandra Tap. Address: Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands Tel: +31 30 253 3275 |