Projects

Currently active projects:

NWO-Middelgroot A high-precision stable isotope mass spectrometer for marine tracer analysis (NWO, 2008-2018).

S. Schouten (BGC), G.J.A. Brummer, et al. (MEE, BIO)

COST Action PERmafrost and GAs hydrate related methane release in the Arctic and impact on climate change: European cooperation for long-term MONitoring: PERGAMON. Coordinated by NIOZ (ESF, 2010-2013).

J. Greinert

PERGAMON is a networking project that aims to bring scientists from very different disciplines together, who work about methane release and occurrence in the Arctic, on land (permafrost, wetlands), in the atmosphere and in the ocean (sub-seafloor, water, water-atmosphere exchange). The project will start with its Kick-Off meeting mid November 2009. It will run for 4 years, organize workshops and conferences as well as short term scientific missions to exchange knowledge and personnel.

GATEWAYS Ocean variability and impact of water column properties on proxy formation (EU-FP7 Marie Curie International Training Network, 2009-2013)

G.J.A Brummer, PhD (2 vacancies), PostDoc (vacancy), S. Schouten (BGC), H. van Aken (FYS), in cooperation with the Univ. Barcelona (Sp) and Univ. Cape Town (RSA).

Relationships between primary productivity and the benthic environment in upwelling regions during the last deglaciation Benthic-foraminifera and diatom assemblage studies, combined with aeolian-dust studies in major upwelling areas around the world (Vetenskaps Radet Sweden, 2009-2012)
J.-B. Stuut, H. Filipsson, S. Bj�rck, D. Conley (Lund Univ., Sweden)

HERMIONE� Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man's Impact on European Seas (EU-FP7, 2009-2012)

H.C. de Stigter

Web address: http://www.eu-hermione.net

INATEX-B Tracing past to modern Indo-Atlantic exchange in sedimentary records (NWO/ZKO-Oceans, 2009-2012)

G.J.A. Brummer, R. Tjallingii, H. Ridderinkhof (FYS), in cooperation with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Utrecht University, KNMI, Universit�t Kiel

EMSO-PP European Multidisciplinary Seafloor Observatory (Preparatory Phase, EU, 2008-2012).

J. Greinert

EMSO, the European Multidisciplinary Seafloor Observatory, is a large-scale European Research Infrastructure. EMSO will be based on a European-scale network of seafloor observatories and platforms with the basic scientific objective of long-term monitoring, mainly in real-time, of environmental processes related to the interaction between the geosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere, including natural hazards. It will be a geographically distributed infrastructure composed of several deep-seafloor observatories, that will be deployed on specific sites around European waters, reaching from the Arctic to the Black Sea passing through the Mediterranean Sea, thus forming a widely distributed pan-European infrastructure.

Web address: http://www.emso-eu.org/

East Kalimantan Programme for Coastal Zone Research Netherlands-Indonesia Natural, climatic and anthropogenic change of the Berau Delta/Barrier Reef system: High-resolution coral proxy analysis of the modern environment and reconstruction on a seasonal to centennial timescale (WOTRO-KNAW-ICOMAR, 2004-2012).

G.J.A. Brummer, R. Nagtegaal, G. van den Bergh, R. Bak (MEE), in cooperation with the Utrecht University and KNMI

Planktonic foraminiferal thinning due to anthropogenic CO₂ emissions? (NWO/ALW, 2008-2011)

G.M. Ganssen et al., T.C.E. van Weering, G.J.A. Brummer as co-applicants.

PASOM A process study on the impact of the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone on organic matter degradation, nutrient regeneration, trace metal cycling and foraminiferal proxies (NWO-ALW, 2008-2011).

G.J. Reichart (Utrecht University) et al., G.J.A. Brummer as co-applicant

GLOW Tropical temperature history during Paleogene global warming events (ESF-EuroMARC, 2008-2011).

D. Kroon (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) et al., T.C.E. van Weering, G.J.A. Brummer as co-applicant

SINDOCOM Southern Indian Ocean/Tropical Pacific teleconnections assessed by a joint coral-in situ ocean monitoring database (NWO-ALW/Climate Change, 2007-2011).

G.J.A. Brummer, C. Grove, in cooperation with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and KNMI

ESONET European Seabed Observatories Network (NoE-EU FP6, 2007-2011).

T.C.E. van Weering., J. Greinert

ESONET stands for European Seas Observatory NETwork, networking institutions, persons, tools and know-how on deep sea observatories. It aims to promote the implementation and the management of a network of long-term multidisciplinary ocean observatories in deep waters around Europe. It wishes to define an organization � with the necessary critical mass � capable of gathering the resources of the participating institutes. The ultimate goal is to define durable solutions through a joint programme of activities. ESONET is Network of Exellence (NoE) cofunded by the European Commission in the Framework Programme FP6 with an european grant for 4 years. According to the European Commission definition of Network of Excellence, ESONET will overcome research fragmentation in Europe.

Web address: http://wwz.ifremer.fr/esonet_emso

MODOO Demo-Mission for a longterm observatory at the PAP site with acoustic data link between surface buoy and lander (within ESONET NoE, EU, 2009-2010).

J. Greinert

MODOO is one of the Demo-Missions funded by ESONET NoE. The MODOO concept is linking and operating existing stand-alone observatories as such that they merge into a single observatory. MODOO is mobile (or re-locatable) as it can be moved to regions where it is required, MODOO is modular as its architecture allows other stand-alone systems to connect to MODOO. For this Demo-Mission MODOO will be operated at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP), 350 nm off southwest Ireland, one of the ESONET NoE's key sites. At the PAP site exists the longest running multidisciplinary open ocean time-series in Europe. The science is dedicated to improve our understanding of the complex oceanic processes from surface waters to the seafloor. Short-term variability of the oceans is examined, including physical mixing, ecosystem dynamics and nutrient cycling. Also longer-term trends in the Earth�s climate are investigated.

Holocene climate evolution of NW Africa Provenance of Saharan dust in marine sediments off NW Africa and environmental history during the Holocene. PhD project in the Graduate College EUROPROX � Proxies in Earth�s History (Deutsche ForschungsGemeinschaft, 2008-2010).
J.-B. Stuut, I. Meyer, with D. Hebbeln, C. Vogt and M. Zabel (MARUM Bremen, Germany), G. Davies and M. Prins (VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Web address: www.europrox.de

Aeolian dust at its sources in Australia Characterizing the physical, chemical, mineralogical and biological properties of present-day Australian dust at its sources (Australian Research Council, 2007-2010).
J.-B. Stuut, P. Dedeckker and G. Allison (ANU, Australia) T. O�Loinsigh and N. Tapper (Monash, Australia), D. de Beer (MPI Bremen, Germany)

NEBROC2 Assessment of tropical environmental change and its teleconnections for the last deglaciation by means of high resolution biomarker analysis (NWO/NIOZ, 2007-2010).

I.S. Casta�eda (BGC), S. Schouten (BGC), G-J.A. Brummer, in cooperation with Universit�t Bremen

CARBONATE Mid-latitude carbonate systems � complete sequences from cold-water coral carbonate mounds in the NE Atlantic (ESF/ALW, 2007-2010).

Tjeerd van Weering, Henk de Haas, Furu Mienis, Cees van der Land

CARBONATE addresses the need to understand the long-term carbonate budget for carbonate mounds in different environmental settings, including the influences of climate change on this process, and the role of mounds in the global carbon cycle. By understanding how biogeochemical processes control the development of these carbonate mounds and their response to climate change, we will make an important step in quantifying their role as mid-latitude carbonate sinks. In the end, a better understanding of the processes involved in mound formation and development may also result in new views on fossil analogues many of which are less accessible hydrocarbon reservoirs.

Web address: www.esf-carbonate.org

MiCROsystems Microbial Diversity and Functionality in Cold-Water Coral Reef Ecosystems (ESF/ALW, 2007-2010).

T.C.E. van Weering, F. Mienis

The key objectives of the MiCROsystems project are to test the hypothesis of a possible linkage between (hydrocarbon related) cold seeps and the development of carbonate mounds, cold water benthic communities and authigenic carbonate formation. GEO department of NIOZ will contribute to the definition of the geological, geochemical and oceanographical conditions and processes forcing the development of the Pen Duick mounds, and to establish the benthic ecosystems and environmental conditions of carbonate mound and cold water coral reefs in contrasting areas of the NE Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.

NEBROC2 Temperature and salinity proxies of ocean thermohaline circulation and climate change: development and verification (NWO/NIOZ, 2005-2010).

G.J.A. Brummer, U. Fallet, S. Schouten (BGC), in cooperation with AWI and Universit�t Bremen

HERMES Hotspot ecosystem research on the margins of the European Seas (EU-FP6, until 2009)

T.C.E. van Weering, H.C. de Stigter, G. Duineveld (MEE)

NEBROC2 (Forcing and development of carbonate mound formation along the NW European margin, NOW, 2005-2009).

T.C.E. van Weering, J.S. Sinninghe Damst�, C. van der Land

DARWIN� Role of cyanobacteria in past biogeochemical cycling (2005-2009).

T. Bauersachs (BGC), J.S. Sinninghe Damst� (BGC), G.J.A. Brummer, in cooperation with NIOO-CEME

VAMOC Variability of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (NWO-NERC-RCN trilateral programme RAPID2, 2005-2009).

G.J.A. Brummer, L.P. Jonkers, H. van Aken (FYS), T.C.E. van Weering in cooperation with the Vrije Universiteit, University Cambridge (UK) and University Bergen (Norway)

Finished projects

NWO-Middelgroot� A National Swath bathymetry system (NWO)

T.C.E. van Weering, H. de Haas, M. Smit (MT), B. Koster (MT)

Scientific cooperation between the Netherlands and the Russian Federation Evolution and ecology of cold seep structures in the Gulf of Cadiz, NE Atlantic: interaction between the geosphere and the biosphere (NWO/RFBR, until 2008).

T.C.E. van Weering, J.S. Sinninghe Damst� (BGC), in cooperation with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Moscow State University (Russia) and the All - Russia Research Institute for Geology and Mineral Resources of the Ocean (Russia)