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 (please include your c.v.).

Location Texel

• The impact of hydrothermal vents on ocean chemistry
• Ocean Mixing and tracer transport
• Northern European Enclosure Dam
• Marsdiep ferry-based velocity record
• 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 
• 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
• Elucidating Southern Ocean microbial interactions with molecular and computational tools
• 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
• Evolution of hydrogen isotopes of a Mid-Cenozoic sediment core
• Marine Organic Biogeochemistry
• How do shells influence sand transport?
• Fresh water availability in a salty environment – How do establishing dune grasses survive flooding and drought?
• Swimming performance and fine-scale behaviours of Wadden Sea fish
• Uncovering the diet of large fishes in the Dutch Wadden Sea
• The diet of Dunlins (Calidris alpina): the most abundant shorebird species in the Wadden Sea
• Movement ecology of migratory shorebirds in the Dutch Wadden Sea
• 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

• How management practices influence vegetation growth in a salinized grassland
• Wetland morphology modified by vegetation shifts after saltwater intrusion
• The effect of temperature on North Sea seaweeds
• Antioxidant and bioactivity assays of seaweed constituents from red seaweeds
• Pattern Recognition of Seaweed Constituents; correlation, differences and quality
• Shifting biodiversity baselines with 3D Visual modelling of ecosystems
• 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