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22/11/2012 17:11

Europe must not lose momentum in marine biodiversity research

Marine Board LogoMarine biodiversity research and its role in supporting maritime policies and management is the subject of new Future Science Brief from the European Marine Board, entitled: “Marine Biodiversity: A Science Roadmap for Europe.”

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09/11/2012 09:03

Food quality matters in the deep

“Organic matter will be  consumed by the ocean floor organisms if the ‘quality’ is good enough”, stated Lara Pozzato in her PhD Thesis. The quality is more important than, for example, the amount of oxygen in the environment. Pozzato studied the interactions among organic matter and organisms at sea floors in different settings. She will defend her PhD thesis on November 16, at the Utrecht University.

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19/10/2012 09:13

Wide Range of Applications for Sea Bacteria

Scientists at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) are going to try to find and win previously unknown micro-organisms from the sea. These micro-organisms may subsequently be used for the development of new medicine, biofuel or other applications.

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19/09/2012 09:18

Saharan dust influences global warming?

Could Saharan dust potentially compensate for the ongoing global warming by fertilising the oceans? A €2-million ERC starting investigator grant will allow Jan-Berend Stuut at NIOZ, Texel, the Netherlands, to test this hypothesis. This five-year research project shall start October 1st of this year.

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02/08/2012 10:18

Tropical rainforest on the South Pole

files/pr/foto's/persberichten/tropisch strand LR.jpgAbout 50 million years ago, the Antarctic summer was subtropical, winter temperatures were above freezing and there was a tropical rainforest on the coast. These are the remarkable results of a research cruise to eastern Antarctica aboard a drilling vessel, led by expedition leader Henk Brinkhuis from Utrecht University and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. The international research team will publish their results in the authoritative scientific journal Nature later this week.

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20/07/2012 02:00

Welcome to the new NIOZ website!

Dear visitor,

Welcome to the new website of NIOZ. We are aware of some obvious errors such as blank pages and the fact that the site is not fully bilingual yet. For information which is not yet available on the new site, we would like to redirect you to the previous website of NIOZ at wwwold.nioz.nl.

Sincerely,
NIOZ website team

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