MSc students

A number of opportunities for internships and thesis projects for MSc students are listed below. Moreover, if you have a specific interest or you want to explore NIOZ research, you can browse the webpages of our research departments: Estuarine & Delta Systems, Coastal Systems, Ocean Systems and Marine Microbiology & Biogeochemistry. Please contact linked scientists directly to inquire about possibilities for an internship or graduation project.

Location Texel

• Ocean acidification and air-sea CO₂ exchange in the Dutch North Sea
• The role of Whittard Canyon in particle dispersal and retention 
• New calcite growth experiments for a better understanding of paleoclimates and biomineralization 
• There’s something fishy about phosphorus cycling in the oceans 
• Reconstructing carbon and nutrient cycling in the Benguela upwelling system 
• Unraveling the sources of algal lipids in the Black Sea water column by a combined lipidomic and genomic approach
• Establishing a long-term experimental evolution experiment of an archaeal host-symbiont system
• Marine Viral Ecology
• The ecological importance of viruses in Antarctic waters
• Phytoplankton host – virus interactions under different growth condition
• Coexistence of marine viruses and their phytoplankton hosts: Virus competition for hosts
• Marine Organic Biogeochemistry
• Establishment of marram grass (Ammophila arenaria) and its dune building capacity
• Movement ecology of migratory shorebirds in the Dutch Wadden Sea
• The gut microbiome and personality in free-living red knots
• How do birds with different feeding specialisations utilize the food landscape?
• Movement ecology meets disease ecology
• ​Impacts of biological invasions on species interactions, food webs and diseases

Location Yerseke

• Kairomones: The mechanism behind mussel – starfish interactions 
• Controlled growth experiments yield insight into bivalve shell mineralization and chemistry
• Ecosystem functioning expressed by bioturbation 
• Providing a mechanistic understanding how to maximize combined nature and coastal protection goals 
• Biogeomorphic landscape formation by ecosystem engineers: generalizing across species 
• Developing knowledge to preserve and restore coastal ecosystems 
• Identifying the relation between the traits of intertidal-organism and the ecosystem services they provide
• Hydrodynamic ecology: unraveling hydrodynamic effects on behavior, resources and thereby communities
• Climate change effects on biogeochemical cycles and benthic organisms