Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, NIOZ, is the national oceanographic institution for the Netherlands. Our mission is to gain and communicate scientific knowledge on seas and oceans for the understanding and sustainability of our planet. To this end, NIOZ facilitates and supports fundamental as well as applied marine research and education in the Netherlands and Europe.
NIOZ is an institute of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, NWO.
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A large fraction of microbial life is living kilometers deep inside the Earth. The majority of these microbes were thought not to be bacteria but archaea, based on the abundant presence of their membrane lipids. Sabine Lengger of the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research found, however, that these lipids are poor indicators for living cells and that the amount of living archaeal biomass in the deep biosphere has been vastly overestimated. Lengger will defend her thesis on July 11th at Utrecht University.
Mussel beds are not an ‘at random’ collection of mussels, but mussels form a pattern that looks like the way molecules and atoms are arranged in materials like bronze, steel or polymers like rubber. A team consisting of ecologists and mathematicians from the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Utrecht University, and Leiden University, reveal their findings in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) of July 1st.
About 45,000 years ago, the extinction of large animals in Australia was followed by abrupt changes in vegetation as well as by substantial forest fires, and not the other way around. This is the result of a study of researchers from the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, together with Australian colleagues. Their findings appear online in the journal Nature Geoscience of June 30.Agenda next 2 weeks
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