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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
Student accommodation
NIOZ offers limited accommodation for interns at Campus De Potvis on Texel and guesthouse De Keete in Yerseke. For Campus De Potvis, reservations must be made via the Potvis booking website. For accommodation at NIOZ Yerseke, please contact the caretaker of De Keete, Jan Megens.

Internship conditions
Details on the conditions for an internship at NIOZ, including information on the NIOZ financial contributions for students, can be found in our Internship Implementation Regulation (for Dutch see here).