No Images? Click here Age, creativity and brain activityA few months ago I got an official letter from the university to inform me that I would be fired on the 1st of December on reaching the retirement age. Can the retreat of the Morteratsch glacier be stopped ?Webinar about our Master's programme Climate PhysicsOn 18 October 2016 we organised a live webinar about the Master's programme Climate Physics. Michiel van den Broeke and students André Jülling and Mark Dekker discussed the ins and outs of the programme and shared their experiences. Lessons on climate sensitivityIMAU climate scientists, together with (inter-)national colleagues, have published a new paper on climate sensitivity. The article “Lessons on climate sensitivity from past climate changes” appeared in the new journal Current Climate Change Reports. Chasing useful to-do's for climate and societyWe are very interested in the careers of our Master graduates. In this edition former Master student Marco Hazenberg tells us about the choices he made. 'During my years at IMAU, the “inconvenient truth” of global warming was high on the agenda internationally. The scientific base of the IPCC report was still being refined to convince the last few percent of sceptical scientists.' Four brothers, one study programmeThey grew up on a dairy farm, but they all chose to study Physics at Utrecht University. Current weak spots in Greenland’s ice sheet have been weak for thousands of yearsPublication in Science Advances co-authored by Bert Wouters and Peter Kuipers Munneke. Complexity Laboratorium Utrecht opens its doorsThe CLUe facility offers easy access to powerful computational and data visualisation software, to work together on overarching research questions. IMAU newsEditors: Michiel van den Broeke, Anna von der Heydt, Rupert Holzinger, Marcel Portanger and Sandra Tap. Address: Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands Tel: +31 30 253 3275
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