Department of Physical Geography

General information:

• UCEL - Utrecht Centre for Environment and Landscape Dynamics
• Geomorphology and Climate homepage.
• Land Degradation website.
• Coastal Research Group.
• Contacting the Department of Physical Geography.
• Laboratory.
• Telephone directory.

Information for (future) students: 

• Studiepunt RW voor alle studieinformatie.
• Algemene informatie over de nieuwe opleiding Aardwetenschappen
• Homepage van de studievereniging van Fysische Geografie: Drift '66

• Studentenveldwerk aan de kust van Terschelling
• Geomorphology and Climate: Teaching subjects 
• Impressie kustveldwerk Teignmouth 1999 (Kleine preview, of volledig (175kB!))

Research projects:

• INTIMATE - Integration of Icecore, Marine and Terrestrial Records.
• Rhine-Meuse Delta Studies - Palaeogeography of the Rhine-Meuse delta.
• PCRaster homepage.
• Environmental Change and the River Rhine.
• DeMon Homepage-Satellite Based Desertification Monitoring in the Mediterranean Basin.
• Volcano kills trees by toxic gasses.
• Tropenbos Foundation: Gap size, soil condition and microclimate.
• The Coast 3D programme.
• Remote Sensing: Monitoring Trends in Urban Growth using SPOT Imagery.
• LISEM - Catchment based runoff and erosion modelling.
• Project GETS: Project: Environmental management of a ski area

Technical information from the Laboratory for Physical Geography:

• The USTM calibration facility.
• HSM tripod - A newly constructed tripod for measurements through the entire watercolumn and for measuring sedimenttransports.
• The "Water en Strand Profiler": WESP
• The Coastal Research Instrumentation Sledge: CRIS.
• The use of tripods in coastal research.
• The BOA bridge field research facility.

Co-operations:

• Netherlands Centre for Coastal Research.
• The Netherlands Centre for River Studies

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Please contact us at: Faculty Geographical Sciences Department of Physical Geography Zonneveldvleugel/Secretary room 120 Tel: int 31 30 2532749 E-mail:Irene Esser.

Please send mail to: Secretariat Physical Geography P.O.Box 80.115 3508 TC Utrecht The Netherlands

Visitors information: Click for a map of the University campus. (Entrance Heidelberglaan 2 or Leuvenlaan 19 and proceed to the "Zonneveldvleugel") Routebeschrijving naar De Uithof