ERC Starting grant to study coupling of volcanoes and atmosphere on Venus

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the ERC Starting Grants for young researchers. One of them is joining the Planetary Exploration group at TU Delft: Edgar Steenstra to study volcanic processes on Venus. The European grant of € 2,228,075 for a five-year research programme is intended to enable Steenstra to build his own teams …

4.5 million awarded to Earth observation and planetary research

Funding within the ‘Use of space infrastructure for Earth Observation and Planetary Research (GO)’ call is distributed among 15 research projects. The researchers will make substantial use of space infrastructure for their projects and will, among other things, conduct research on CO and CO2 emissions from forest and wildfires and volcanism on Mars. Various national …