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Newsletter February 2019
19 February 2019 |
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Spin-off: Implementing cost-effective technologies for removing pharmaceuticals from wastewater ›› |
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Scientists support school strike for climate ›› |
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SENSE PhD Miedema: "Electrical cars won't mitigate the greenhouse effect" ›› |
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Overview of PhD graduations upcoming period ›› |
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MOOC: Citizens co-creating sustainable cities, 5 March - 30 April ›› |
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Grasping Sustainability course, 11-16 March ›› |
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A1 SENSE Introductory Course, 27-29 March ›› |
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Overview of PhD / postdoc courses March - April 2019 ›› |
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Overview of recently announced PhD / postdoc courses ›› |
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Research in Remote Areas, a WIMEK documentary evening, 22 February ›› |
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SENSE Forest walk with Shinrin Yoku and Soul Voice®, 22 March ›› |
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SENSE conference Energy landscapes and seascapes, 20 June - SAFE THE DATE! ›› |
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Overview of upcoming events ›› |
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Climate letter Dutch Universities - want to become a co-signer? ›› |
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Vacancies at SENSE Partners ›› |
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Other vacancies in the SENSE field ›› |
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Walk with us! |
As you all know, the members of the SENSE PhD Council (SPC) are a dedicated bunch of people who are trying to bring the SENSE community to its full(er) potential. It is indeed worthwhile to look out for their activities, as it might well be that you can find benefit from the SENSE community too.
Now the SPC has planned the upcoming SENSE Spring Forest Walk, which will take place on Friday afternoon 22nd March at 15.30-18.30 hrs (gathering place: Train Station Ede-Wageningen, Centre side). This is part of a tradition to go out together and explore some of the beautiful parts of the Netherlands and at the same time find some quiet inspiration for your busy mind, as well as finding time for conversation with your fellow SENSE PhD candidates.
But that is not all.. the SPC has organized a truly attractive and interesting event for you to join on this occasion. Check this out: “From the train station we will walk to the Sysseltse woods. Writer and meditation teacher Beitske Bouwman will guide us to experience Shinrin Yoku. SENSE PhD candidate and Soul Voice® practitioner in training Viola Bennink will introduce us to Soul Voice®. We will end up at the train station again around 18:30. The forest workshops will be paid by SENSE. Afterwards, there is the option to join for dinner at Pizza&Pizza (own expense) á EUR17 p.p. for three courses (breads, pizza, tiramisu/coffee/tea).”
Will you join the SENSE community on this hiking adventure too? If yes, then please subscribe for this event HERE.
Let’s make SENSE together!
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SENSE News |
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Spin-off: Implementing cost-effective technologies for removing pharmaceuticals from wastewater |
Four years ago, Ph.D. scientist Arnoud de Wilt (WU) investigated the use of microalgae, in combination with bacteria and light, for improved micro-pollutant degradation in wastewater. This photo-bioreactor was very effective in breaking down different medicine residues in wastewater. However, implementing his idea proved to be challenging due to less favorable conditions for microalgae growth in The Netherlands. Therefore, in the last stage of his research, de Wilt focused on using ozone in combination with bacteria to degrade these compounds. The extra biological treatment step demonstrated a more efficient removal of micro-pollutants compared to just ozone treatment. Hence, implementation of this new cost-effective technology in current wastewater treating plants is promising. |
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Scientists support school strike for climate |
In Europe young people take to the streets to demand more climate ambition from their governments. Based on the facts generated by climate science, the activists are quite right. Radical action is required to quickly and drastically reduce greenhouse gasses and prevent climate change to cause major changes on earth. On the day of the Dutch school strike for climate 350 Dutch scientists publish an open letter in the Dutch newspaper Trouw, titled: "Climate agreement: time for political leadership!" |
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SENSE PhD Miedema: "Electrical cars won't mitigate the greenhouse effect" |
On 14 January 2019 SENSE PhD candidate Jan Hessels Miedema graduated on his thesis "Biomass or batteries. The role of three technological innovations in the energy transition". In the Dutch newspaper Dagblad van het Noorden he discusses the feasibility of the intention of the Dutch government that from 2030 onward only electrical cars will be sold. |
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Upcoming PhD Graduations |
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Overview of PhD graduations upcoming period |
- Florian Beyer
Microbiological and process technological aspects of nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membrane biofouling
22 February 2019, Wageningen University, Microbiology
- Yuli Ekowati
Protection of public health from microbial and chemical hazards in swimming pool environment
11 March 2019, IHE Delft, River Basin Development
- Isnaeni Murdi Hartanto
Integrating Multiple Sources of Information for Improving Hydrological Modelling: An Ensemble Approach
19 March 2019, IHE Delft, Hydroinformatics
- Eskinder Zinabu Belachew
Estimating combined loads of diffuse and point-source pollutants into the Borkena River, Ethiopia
26 March 2019, IHE, Aquatic Ecosystems
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Upcoming courses and discussion groups |
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MOOC: Citizens co-creating sustainable cities, 5 March - 30 April |
Around the world, major challenges of our time such as population growth and climate change are being addressed in cities. Here, citizens play an important role amidst governments, companies, NGOs and researchers in creating social, technological and political innovations for achieving sustainability.
This MOOC will teach you about the dynamics of co-creation and the key principles of citizens interacting with service providing companies, technology and infrastructure developers, policy makers and researchers. You will gain an understanding of major types of co-creation and their interdependency with their socio-technical and political contexts. You will become equipped to indicate how you can use co-creation to develop innovative technologies, policy arrangements or social practices for a sustainable city in your own community. You will demonstrate this by developing an action plan, research proposal or project idea. |
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Grasping Sustainability course, 11-16 March |
In the SENSE course 'Environmental Research in Context' several perspectives and approaches to analyse and to solve environmental problems are discussed. You will find out how your own research project fits within other (multi-) disciplinary approaches and you will discuss the advantages and the disadvantages of your approach compared to these alternatives. |
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A1 SENSE Introductory Course, 27-29 March |
In the SENSE course 'Environmental Research in Context' several perspectives and approaches to analyse and to solve environmental problems are discussed. You will find out how your own research project fits within other (multi-) disciplinary approaches and you will discuss the advantages and the disadvantages of your approach compared to these alternatives. |
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Overview of PhD / postdoc courses March - April 2019 |
- Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment
4-8 March 2019, Delft
- Selected topics in mathematics
4-15 March 2019, Wageningen
- Dynamic Models in R: Programming, parameter estimation and model selection
8, 14, 15, 21, 22 March and 12 April 2019, Wageningen
- Grasping Sustainability
11-16 March 2019, Soest
- Visual research methods
15-22 March 2019, Wageningen
- Bugs at your service - Fundamentals and application of arthropod-mediated ecosystem services
31 March-5 April 2019, Ede
- Survival Analysis (NEW)
10-11 April 2019, Wageningen
- PCDI course Employability Outside Academia (NEW)
29 April, 20 May and 17 June 2019, Utrecht
- Multivariate Analysis
30 April, 1, 2, 7 and 8 May 2019, Wageningen
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Overview of recently announced PhD / postdoc courses |
- Basic Statistics
6-7 & 15-17 May 2019, Wageningen
- Advanced Course on Environmental Biotechnology
7-17 May 2019, Delft
- Introduction to R for statistical analysis
13-14 May 2019, Wageningen
- Design of Experiments
21-23 May 2019, Wageningen
- Ethics for Social Sciences Research
24 May 2019, Wageningen
- Navigating Brussels with ELLS
3-5 June 2019, Belgium
- Linear Models
12-14 June 2019, Wageningen
- Generalized Linear Models
20-21 June 2019, Wageningen
- Mixed Linear Models
27-28 June 2019, Wageningen
- Animal Movement Analysis
30 June - 5 July 2019, Amsterdam
- ALTER-Net Summer School - Challenge your knowledge on biodiversity and ecosystem services
21-31 August 2019, Peyresq, Alpes de Haute-Provence, France
- Geostatistics for Water Management and Environmental Sciences
16-27 September 2019, Delft
- Speciation and Bioavailability of Metals, Organics and Nanoparticles
30 September - 4 October 2019, Belgium
In case you are interested in either participating or teaching a course that is currently not in the programme, please do not hesitate and contact us with your suggestions. |
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Upcoming Events |
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Research in Remote Areas, a WIMEK documentary evening, 22 February |
Doing research in remote areas, whether that be physically or psychologically remote, can have a severe impact on your functioning. At the same time, it is a chance to get to know yourself better, and to improve skills that you usually don’t develop. The people or organisms that you do communicate with in such remote areas, usually make a lasting imprint in you.
The WIMEK PhD Council organises a documentary evening about Doing Research in Remote Areas. Our case study for this evening is Antarctica. The documentary is: Encounters at the End of the World, directed by Werner Herzog (highly rated on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes). And we have two speakers. For more information: see around the poster below. |
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SENSE Forest walk with Shinrin Yoku and Soul Voice®, 22 March |
High workload, perfectionism, procrastination, comparison with others and many other issues can make you feel stressed during your PhD. They consciously or unconsciously drain your energy. We can either feel victimised by that, or decide to create a more pleasant PhD life ourselves. How? By joining the upcoming SENSE forest walk, in which you will be introduced to two interesting methods to stimulate a healthy body and mind: Shinrin Yoku and Soul Voice®. |
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SENSE conference Energy landscapes and seascapes, 20 June - SAFE THE DATE! |
The energy transition will lead to big transitions in the urban, rural and sea landscape, causing resistance from citizens, rural inhabitants, farmers, fisherman, politicians, and other persons. This conference will give insight in the national sustainable energy task, different spatial options to realise this task, competing claims for land and sea use and the advantages and disadvantages of different sustainable energy scenarios for wind farms, solar energy farms and the use of biomass. The crucial question is how we can create sufficient public support for the implementation of a timely energy transition. |
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Overview of upcoming events |
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- Symposium Future of rivers and streams: ecology and restoration under global change
6 March 2019, Belgium
- Scenarios forum 2019 - Forum on Scenarios for Climate and Societal Futures
11-13 March 2019, USA
- Waterkwaliteitsmetingen door burgers? Zeker zinvol!
20 March 2019, VVM Utrecht
- Zorg voor de toekomst in het Antropoceen
27 March 2019, VVM Utrecht
- Living Planet Symposium
13-17 May 2019, Italy
- Nationale Milieudag 2019: "Transities: effectieve aanpak of modieuze illusie?"
14 May 2019, The Hague
- BCF Career Event 2019
23 May 2019, Utrecht
- NWO Life Congress
28-29 May 2019, Bunnik
- ESP regional conference Africa 2019: "Management of Ecosystem Services for Nature Conservation and Human Wellbeing in Africa"
17-20 June 2019, Togo, Africa
- Inaugural Address & Mini Symposium Professor Mário J. Franca at IHE
12 July 2019, IHE Delft
- Ground Truth 2.0 Week 2019 - events and workshops on citizen observatories
30 September - 4 October 2019, Delft
- 2019 Mexico Conference on Earth System Governance: "Urgent transformations and earth system governance: Towards sustainability and justice"
6-8 November 2019, Mexico
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Climate letter Dutch Universities - want to become a co-signer? |
On 8 October 2018, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its latest report.
Although many researchers at Dutch universities are active in the debate on climate change, our institutions themselves often have no ambitious climate agenda, and a common approach among universities is lacking. With this letter, we call upon university management to develop and implement policies to drastically reduce the universities’ carbon emissions. We also call on our faculties and colleagues to make the fight against climate change visible in our own practice and to integrate it into education. In this, we follow the example of Danish colleagues, whose letter was signed by 600 scientists.
Become a co-signer of the letter
Do you work at one of the Dutch universities? Then become in a co-signer of the Climate Letter to the Universities. |
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Job vacancies |
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Vacancies at SENSE Partners |
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Other vacancies in the SENSE field |
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More vacancies |
During the month new vacancies are regularly posted on the SENSE vacancy page. |
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