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Press archive 2019

Wadden & Delta related press releases 2019 issued by NIOZ and interviews with employees in national and international newspapers.  For other news and facts,  follow Wadden & Delta Research Centre on Facebook and Twitter @NIOZwdrc, fieldwork specials @NIOZNavicula.  

Policy can also be effective
Policy can also be effective
DEC 2019 | Oil pollution in the North Sea reduced to an acceptable minimum (in Dutch).
Expedition Bijagós Archipelo
Expedition Bijagós Archipelo
DEC 2019 | Catching birds in the Bijagós Archipelo in Guinea-Bissau by Roeland Bom.
Giant baleen whales
Giant baleen whales
DEC 2019 | Blue whales are the largest animals ever on our planet. Why did they evolve to be so huge?
Management Wadden Sea
Management Wadden Sea
DEC 2019 | Embed appleid questions into research programs. Allert Bijleveld in Friesch Dagblad (in Dutch).
Nature for hydraulic engineering
Nature for hydraulic engineering
NOV 2019 | With salt marshes off the coast, dikes can stay lower. Tjeerd Bouwma in NRC (in Dutch).
Inauguration Tjeerd Bouma
Inauguration Tjeerd Bouma
NOV 2019 | Tjeerd Bouma appointed as professor at Utrecht University (in Dutch).
RAAK award
RAAK award
NOV 2019 | PhD Jildou Schotanus got the 1st price for her research on More value from Mussels.
Successful cockle cultivation
Successful cockle cultivation
NOV 2019 | Promising results after first season with cockle cultivation. Katja Philippart in NHD (in Dutch).
Leontine van de Stadt Award
Leontine van de Stadt Award
NOV 2019 | Video 'Thinking like a bird' created by ScienceMedia in 2015 received the 'Groene Reiger'.
Explanation of the lab
Explanation of the lab
SEP 2019 | Tjeerd Bouwma explains the operation of the laboratory, Omroep Zeeland (in Dutch).
Needed: Top Sector ecology
Needed: Top Sector ecology
SEP 2019 |Interview in Trouw, Theunis Piersma: 'We don't want to see how bad nature is doing' (in Dutch).
Opening underwater laboratory
Opening underwater laboratory
SEP 2019 | Interview on AD.nl with Tjeerd Bouma about a unique facility (in Dutch).
NWO Veni grant
NWO Veni grant
JUL 2019 | The Dutch Research Council NWO has awarded a Veni grant to Allert Bijleveld.
Management sea level rise
Management sea level rise
JUL 2019 | Sea level rise requires extra management to maintain salt marshes.
Rare Sunfish spotted
Rare Sunfish spotted
JUN 2019 | During the 12th SIBES sampling researchers come across a rare Sunfish (in Dutch).
The effects of microplastics
The effects of microplastics
JUN 2019 | Waddenacademy and NIOZ present MSC Zoe advisory report to HID of Rijkswaterstaat_NN.
How marram grass builds dunes
How marram grass builds dunes
JUNE 2019 | Marram grasses have a special survival mechanism to cope with salt and crashing waves...
Floating algae in river water
Floating algae in river water
JUN 2019 | Research shows that there is a third, important food source for shellfish (in Dutch).
The gull at the fish stall
The gull at the fish stall
JUN 2019 | Interview with Kees Camphuijsen and Judy Shamoun (UvA) on Volkskrant.nl (in Dutch).
Lab experiment
Lab experiment
JUN 2019 | Birds change their stomachs but not their behavior when they get older (in Dutch).
SEA Art Tour 2019
SEA Art Tour 2019
JUN 2019 | Where science meets art: NIOZ researchers participated in various projects.
China protects migratory birds
China protects migratory birds
MAY 2019 | Protected areas along the Chinese shores thanks to Dutch biological research (in Dutch).
Active restoration
Active restoration
APR 2019 | 400 toddlers released from the flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) at 'Borkumse Stenen' (in Dutch).
Red Knot under pressure
Red Knot under pressure
APR 2019 | The ecological consequences of the rapid warming of Arctic regions (in Dutch).
Learning from crab-plover
Learning from crab-plover
MAR 2019 | The amount of crabs in the Omani Wadden Sea is of an unlikely amount (in Dutch).
Structural cooperation Oman
Structural cooperation Oman
MAR 2019 | Dutch wadden researchers can still learn a lot of the wadden area of Oman (in Dutch).
Bird migration in a nutshell
Bird migration in a nutshell
MAR 2019 | Transmitter system follows individual birds. Interview in 'De Ingenieur' 3 (in Dutch).
Waddenmozaïek
Waddenmozaïek
FEB 2019 | Waddenmozaiek starts with the mapping of the Wadden Sea underwater nature (in Dutch).
Ecological disaster
Ecological disaster
JAN 2019 | RUG and NIOZ jointly investigate plastic pollution at Schiermonnikoog (in Dutch).
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