Latest news Open menu Search 284 results rss Open menu 26 April 2018 Super computing power for rainfall modelling in Africa Prof. Nick van de Giesen received an IBM Technology & Data grant in the form of free super computing power and weather data. The project of Prof. Van de Giesen and Camille le Coz (both from the Water Management department) focusses on the simulation of rainfall and weather data in Africa to increase farmer resilience. Read more 26 April 2018 Safe drinking water for all with smart, new drinking water technologies Access to safe drinking water is a global challenge, particularly affecting the rural poor in developing countries. This urgent problem requires new, smart solutions for the removal of a wide range of contaminants of global concern, such as arsenic, fluoride, pathogens and antibiotic resistant genes. Read more 26 April 2018 Professor Mark van Koningsveld holder of Ports & Waterways chair Prof.dr.ir. Mark van Koningsveld has been installed as the new holder of the chair of Ports & Waterways. Van Koningsveld is taking over from prof. Ir. Tiedo Vellinga and will continue the chair’s main brief which is to conduct research into the areas of port infrastructure and design and nautical matters. Read more 19 April 2018 Hurricane Harvey: Dutch-Texan research shows most fatalities occurred outside flood zones A Dutch-Texan team found that most Houston-area drowning deaths from Hurricane Harvey occurred outside the zones designated by government as being at higher risk of flooding: the 100- and 500-year floodplains. Harvey, one of the costliest storms in US history, hit southeast Texas on 25 August 2017 causing unprecedented flooding and killing dozens. Researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and Rice University in Texas published their results today in the European Geosciences Union journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. Read more 12 April 2018 Dutch contribution to European Plate Observatory System awarded The department of Geoscience & Engineering is part of EPOS-NL, the Dutch contribution to the European infrastructure for geosciences, natural hazards and geo-resources. This project is one of the ten awarded proposals in the National Roadmap for Large-Scale Scientific Infrastructure by NWO. Read more 12 April 2018 Ruisdael Observatory: measuring the Dutch atmosphere on a 100m scale ‘Weather’ is the result of a combination of many diverse factors, such as solar radiation, the concentration of greenhouse gases, air quality and humidity, local building density or vegetation, wind direction and a whole host of underlying physical and chemical processes. Read more 29 March 2018 Micro-CT scanner reveals secrets hidden in prehistoric eggs Read more ... Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 You are on page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Share this page: Facebook Linkedin Twitter Email WhatsApp Share this page