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

• Disentangling seasonal to interannual monsoon signals from a 70-kyr Arabian Sea record
• Removal of micropollutants by riverine and coastal sediments
• 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
• 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
• Early Jurassic pCO₂ reconstructions 
• Marine Organic Biogeochemistry
• Microbial communities on plastic accumulating in mangrove systems
• Omega-3 and parasites, is there a connection?
• Impacts of plastics on the snail Littorina littorea: from organism to microbiome
• Productivity regimes in the North Sea
• Reproductive potential of garfish in the Wadden Sea
• Assessing benthic fish populations around tree-reefs with video monitoring
• Uncovering the diet of large fishes in the Dutch Wadden Sea
• Tracking fish migration and habitat selection in the Dutch Wadden Sea
• Personality and movement ecology in free-living Red Knots
• Movement ecology of migratory shorebirds in the Dutch Wadden Sea
• Ecophysiological tolerance of macrozoobenthos
• Macrozoobenthos distributions in the Dutch Wadden Sea
• Movement ecology meets disease ecology
• ​Impacts of biological invasions on species interactions, food webs and diseases

Location Yerseke

• Antioxidants as indicators of plant response to salt stress
• Selective breeding for sterile sugar kelp
• Protecting Nature with Nature - Nature-based Solutions to Improve Marine Ecosystem Health
• Interactions between Microbes and Macro-Organisms - from Symbiosis to Improving Marine Ecosystem Health
• Sand or food: what matters most for a clam? 
• 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