Sea level @ NIOZ

The Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems (EDS) is looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate with a background in physical geography, oceanography or meteorology. The position is part of a larger project which addresses the challenge of reconstructing and attributing 20th century regional sea-level changes using observations and model simulations. The project was awarded to Dr. Slangen in the Vidi Talent Programme scheme funded by NWO. This 4-year PhD position, starting from 1 January 2025, is in close collaboration with Utrecht University (Department of Physical Geography) and NORCE (Bergen, Norway). Applications are welcome here

With the start of Jaime in April, the VIDI project DARSea has now officially started. We had a first meeting with the project team early June and are looking forward to the project and the collaborations with our (inter)national partners.  We will start hiring again soon, for the second PhD position in this project, with the post commencing early 2025. This PhD will be focusing on modelling sea-level changes. Stay tuned!  

This spring, the NIOZ sea level group has been well-represented at national and international conferences. It is great to see everyone giving their presentations, posters, and strengthen current and forge new collaborations.    [NIOZ sea level group @NAC24]     [Sea level session dinner @ EGU24] 

PhD position: “Reconstructing regional sea-level change in the 20th century using observations" Yerseke , Zeeland , Netherlands         Job description New job opportunity at the Royal NIOZ: the  department of Estuarine and Delta Systems (EDS) is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated PhD candidate to address the challenge of reconstructing 20 th century regional sea-level changes. Do you want to use state-of-the-art observations and model simulations to unravel the 20 th century sea-level puzzle? Do you want to use climate models to simulate past regional sea-level changes, and close the 20 th century regional sea-level budget? We offer this 4-year position in the NWO-funded Vidi project ‘ DARSea : Detection and Attribution of 20 th century Regional Sea-level change’. The position is in the research group of Dr. Aimée Slangen, in close collaboration with Utrecht University (Department of Physical Geography). THE DEPARTMENT   The department of Estuarine and Delta Sy

  Two NIOZ researchers have receive Vidi grants of 800,000 euros. The laureates are Dr Aimée Slangen, for solving the regional sea-level puzzle and Dr Rick Hennekam, for investigating tipping points in climate and ocean systems. These grants will enable them to develop an innovative line of research over the next five years and further expand their own research group. Project DARSea: Solving the regional sea-level puzzle Sea-level change is driven by a combination of different processes, each acting on their own temporal and spatial scales. It is a complex puzzle, which has not yet been solved on a regional scale. This Vidi project will combine observations and models of regional sea-level change with a new approach to find optimal regions which allow for the puzzle to be solved. The goal is to better understand the different causes of regional sea-level change in the 20th century, which leads to better future projections.   In this Vidi project, I will use improved observations and st

Last Thursday, 15 June, Carolina sucessfully defended her PhD at TU Delft.  In the presence of her family and friends, she responded to the tough questions from the examination panel. The questions covered all aspects of her thesis, from the steric and mass contributions, to the budget and the tools used to find optimal regions.  Her thesis contains her three published papers: Exploring Sources of Uncertainty in Steric Sea‐Level Change Estimates Trends and Uncertainties of Regional Barystatic Sea-level Change in the Satellite Altimetry Era   Regionalizing the Sea-level Budget With Machine Learning Techniques   After the defense, Carolina was awarded the title of Dr!  Carolina will now move to Woods Hole Institute in the US for a postdoctoral fellowship. We are sad to see her leave and will miss her, but ofcourse we wish her lots of fun and interesting science in her next endeavours!  

Assessment of How Climate Scientists Communicate Risk Shows Imperfections, Improvements The hardest part, experts find, is communicating “unquantifiable” uncertainty Scientists have long struggled to find the best way to present crucial facts about future sea level rise, but are getting better at communicating more clearly, according to an international group of climate scientists, including Aimée Slangen from NIOZ and Tim Hermans from Utrecht University. The consequences of improving communications are enormous, the scientists said, as civic leaders actively incorporate climate scientists’ risk assessments into major planning efforts to counter some of the effects of rising seas. Writing in Nature Climate Change, the scientists review the language and graphics used in climate “assessment” reports between 1990 and 2021 by members of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). “Future sea level rise emerges from a lot of different