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A new piece of the climate puzzle

What role do clouds and particles play in global warming? That is what an instrument developed in the Netherlands, SPEXone, on board a new NASA climate satellite, is exploring. The data collected by SPEXone will be processed and stored at SURF and made available to the scientific community.

Technology

Researching music’s role in human evolution, from the Congo to the cloud

Why is music so prevalent in all human societies? A group of international and interdisciplinary researchers has now concluded: music is vital for forming coalitions.

Arts & Culture

Europe | SURF (Netherlands) |

instrument taking colour measurements of Van Gogh painting

A Fresh Light on Van Gogh

Why do some colours in Vincent van Gogh’s paintings gradually change, and what can be done about it? That is what the Van Gogh Museum is trying to find out together with ASML and various scientific institutions.

Arts & Culture

Europe | SURF (Netherlands) |

Studying the green wave: ten years of research software collaboration

Raúl Zurita Milla from the University of Twente conducts pioneering green wave studies with big data, thanks to the Netherlands eScience Centre Center, which was founded ten years ago.

Earth Observation

Europe | SURF (Netherlands) |

Making cross-border cancer research collaboration safe and secure

SURF’s Research Cloud makes cutting-edge collaborative cancer research faster, more cost-effective and more impactful.

Health & Medicine Life Sciences

CSC (Finland) | Europe | GÉANT (Europe) | SURF (Netherlands) |

Applying virtual reality technology to improve body image

Researchers in the BODYinTRANSIT project are studying how Body Transformation Experiences (BTE), or perceptual illusions of body change, can be engineered, to create the illusion of being something different than what they are in reality.

Health & Medicine Neuroscience

21/4/2021 Sentinel 3 OLCI, True color - enhanced

KNMI shares weather data with fellow institutes via EUMETSAT

Weather satellites provide raw data for weather and climate models. EUMETSAT collects this raw data and distributes the processed data to weather institutes in its member countries, such as the Dutch KNMI. The institutes themselves contribute to the processing of the data. How does this work, how are the data distributed, and what is SURF’s role?

Astronomy Climate Science Earth Observation Meteorology Space

Europe | GÉANT (Europe) | SURF (Netherlands) |

Dutch nursing instructors are keen on open education

The COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic enhances value of open education tools for Dutch nurses.

Education Health & Medicine Knowledge Exchange

Europe | SURF (Netherlands) |

Citizen science: collaboration for water quality

Harnessing the power of citizen science gives scientists the opportunity to gather more data than they ever could alone.

Climate Science Earth Observation Environment Water management

Europe | GÉANT (Europe) | SURF (Netherlands) |

Data Stewards to the rescue, please!

According to experts, the world needs Data Stewards. Estimates say, that in Europe alone 500.000 will be needed over the coming years. Research & education networks are contributing to make that happen.

Education Life Sciences Technology

CSC (Finland) | DeIC (Denmark) | Europe | SURF (Netherlands) |

Microclimatic IoT monitoring to protect museum collections

Universities, tech companies and museums are joining forces in the CollectionCare project to develop digital conservation technology to better monitor the condition of their collections.

Arts & Culture Technology

Europe | GÉANT (Europe) | SURF (Netherlands) |

Has the world gone peppers?

Researchers from across Europe are hard at work developing a robot that autonomously roams a greenhouse, “eye-balling” sweet peppers to check if they have reached optimal ripeness, and then plucks them off the plant and places them in a vat – all automatically.

Agriculture Food Security

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