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27/08/2013 13:11

The Mystery of the Second Lander

The focus of this cruise was to retrieve four landers we deployed last year in Baltimore and Norfolk Canyons. Two of the landers were from UNCW and two from NIOZ, and they were placed at specific locations so we could collect a year’s worth of data on the physical parameters of the water at the bottom. Currently, three landers are on board. The second lander we tried to recover is still missing, but there is hope.

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23/08/2013 12:07

First Lander is up!

“Wow! How cool is this!” exclaimed Dacia on the port bow after watching the bright yellow marker buoy pop up, followed by a roaring cheer as the flag on the lander broke the surface. After getting up at 5:30 am, she admits she had been thinking that she had no idea what to look for, and how was she supposed to spot the lander? She started looking for something out of the ordinary, something that was not supposed to be there. When she saw the yellow floats she knew she was looking at the right thing.

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19/08/2013 10:13

Drifting surface buoy

An emergency recovery of a DOLAN-type surface buoy was conducted on July 24th by the CVOO team of Cape Verde. Colleagues from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) informed CVOO about a drifting surface buoy which originally was part of an oceanographic mooring 290 nautical miles northeast of CVOO (off Cape Blanc, Mauritania).

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16/08/2013 13:03

Test Plastic Soup in flume NIOZ

The Ocean Cleanup Foundation is developing a concept to remove plastic litter from the ocean with floating booms. Tests in the flume of NIOZ-Yerseke has to make clear whether this concept will work out. The movies below give impressions of these experiments.

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14/02/2013 13:50

Researching the smallest organisms in the ocean

Interview with prof. Lucas J. Stal (NIOZ and UvA), MaCuMBA coordinator

Can you explain to a wider audience, whose knowledge of marine microorganism may be limited, why a project like MaCuMBA is important?
Most people when they hear about microorganisms think of dirt, of illness, or at best they know that microorganisms make our beer, wine, yoghurt, cheese, antibiotics, etc. Few people realize that the total biomass of microorganisms on earth is many times higher than that of all other organisms together, including man. Few people know that the genetic diversity of microorganisms is overwhelmingly larger than that of all plants and animals together and that the number of species is unknown but must be in the many tens of millions.

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28/12/2012 12:27

Chance of survival of young molluscs determined by their size

Even small differences in body size have a significant impact on the chances of survival of young molluscs. This is the conclusion Ms Henrike Andresen draws in her PhD thesis. Ms Andresen studied predation by crustaceans on bivalve molluscs during their early bottom-dwelling stage. She will defend her thesis at the VU University Amsterdam on 8 January 2013.

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10/12/2012 12:48

Linking climate, humans and abrupt vegetation changes

Northwest Africa and Southeast Australia are regions which are particularly vulnerable to climate change. In her thesis, Raquel Lopes dos Santos of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, investigate organic compounds in marine sediment cores, in order to reconstruct past environmental conditions in these areas. She found that vegetation changes were large and abrupt over the past 150,000 years in these regions and were caused by climate change as well as indirectly by humans. Lopes dos Santos will defend her thesis at the Utrecht University, on 17 December, 2012.

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10/12/2012 11:02

Alina Stadnitskaia (NIOZ, BGC) elected as president ‘Biogeosciences’ EGU.

In order to continue the bottom-up structure of the European Geosciences Union, the EGU Election Autumn 2012 for the next Treasurer and Division Presidents was held. 

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28/11/2012 14:52

Dr. Katja Philippart appointed as board member 'Waddenacademie-KNAW'

As of 1 January 2013, Dr. Katja Philippart (NIOZ-MEE) is appointed as the new board member 'Ecology' at the Waddenacademie-KNAW. Katja will replace prof. dr. Peter Herman, who held this position until 1 September 2012. Following the appointment by the Royal Academy of Sciences (KNAW) , the board will gain a plenary status again.

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26/11/2012 12:56

New possibilities for discovering importance nitrogen in the past

A new way has been found to investigate past changes in the marine nitrogen cycle. Darci Rush of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) found that although it is difficult to find the biomarker molecules of the nitrogen-processing bacteria, there is the potential to detect the transformation products of these molecules in sediments up to 1 million years old. Rush will defend her thesis on December 3th at the Utrecht University.

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