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Wednesday 10 May 2023
Salt marshes protect the coast – but not where it is needed most
Salt marshes provide multiple ecosystem services, one of those is protection of the coast against flooding. This is especially important in low-lying countries like the Netherlands. Scientists from the University of Groningen and the Royal…
Sunday 30 April 2023
NIOZ at Science Festival Expedition Next in Middelburg
On Wednesday, May 3, the inner city of Middelburg, Zeeland, is transformed into a big science festival for children aged 6-12 and their parents/guardians. NIOZ is participating with three activities:
Thursday 20 April 2023
Melting of Greenland glaciers changes coastal ecosystem
During the 21st century, the retreat of the Greenland Ice Sheet will potentially change the composition of marine coastal species in Greenland, from bacteria to fish. This is a main research conclusion of NIOZ PhD candidate Alice Stuart-Lee, who…
Tuesday 18 April 2023
Doe mee! Groot Europees kustonderzoek bezoekt Texel
In 2023 en 2024 worden langs de hele kust van Europa door wetenschappers watermonsters genomen en geanalyseerd. Dit grootschalig maritiem onderzoek wordt gedaan door het European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in samenwerking met lokale partners…
Monday 17 April 2023
Heat stored in the earth system 1960-2020: where does the energy go?
As our ‘out-of-balance’ Earth system accumulates more energy than it loses, an international multidisciplinary effort addresses questions ‘by how much and where’. The second version of ‘Heat stored in the Earth system 1960-2020: where does the energy…
Thursday 13 April 2023
Sustainability matters in design and construction Wim Wolff
RV Wim Wolff is expected to go into service by the end of the summer. The research vessel will be built to the latest sustainability standards. Together with the site team of shipbuilding specialists, Aarnoud van de Burgt supervises the building…
Wednesday 12 April 2023
Why some mangrove trees resist storms better than others
Over the coming decades, the cost of coastal flood safety will increase as sea levels rise and storm patterns change. To find solutions for this pressing matter, Rosanna van Hespen, ecologist at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)…
Thursday 06 April 2023
Lauded microbiologist Jill Banfield visits NIOZ
Earth scientist Professor Jill Banfield of the University of California at Berkeley received the Van Leeuwenhoek Medal yesterday, during the annual meeting of the Royal Dutch Society for Microbiology. This award for influential (micro)biologists has…
Tuesday 04 April 2023
IODE Achievement Award 2023 for Taco de Bruin
Last week during the 27th Committee meeting of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) program of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), NIOZ data specialist Taco de Bruin received the IODE Achievement…
Monday 03 April 2023
"It is too early for commercial deep-sea mining"
"Extracting manganese nodules or other valuable metals from the bottom of the oceans is still fraught with many uncertainties. It is therefore far too early to proceed with commercial deep-sea mining at this time." So says marine biologist Sabine…
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Monday 11 September 2023
WATLAS fieldwork 2023
Even voorstellen… Mijn naam is Evy Gobbens en ik ben promovendus/PhD kandidaat bij het Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee (NIOZ). Dit houdt in dat ik vier jaar lang onderzoek doe naar wadvogels, en specifiek naar het effect van…
Monday 07 August 2023
Fieldwork on red knots in Alaska, summer 2023
This blog is about NIOZ field work in Alaska during the summer of 2023, where we studied the impact of rapid Arctic climate change on the migratory red knot (Calidris canutus). Earlier work on the so-called ‘AfroSiberian red knot’ (C. canutus…
Tuesday 04 July 2023
Deepsea life in the cracks of the crust
During the 'Sublife'-expedition we investigate if animals can live in the cracks of the ocean crust. And if animals living around hydrothermal vents use those cracks for their dispersal. This research will transform our understanding of ecology and…
Monday 19 June 2023
ACTNOW Expedition June 2023
The 10 day cruise to sample the Doggers bank is organised in the framework of the EU project ACTNOW*. The aim is to collect data on different elements of the food web simultaneously: from phytoplankton (the small “plants” in the sea) via grazing…
Monday 22 May 2023
NoSE expedition to the Norwegian Trench 26 May - 14 June 2023
The biologically productive North Sea impacts the global climate through exchange of carbon and nutrients with the Atlantic Ocean. The North Sea is a very productive coastal sea. A lot of carbon dioxide (CO2) can be taken up through physical,…
Tuesday 16 May 2023
Ecologisch onderzoek in de Waddenzee, 2023
Onderzoekers van het NIOZ volgen al jaren wat er gebeurt met het leven in de Waddenzee. Sommige datasets zijn al langer dan 30 jaar. Veranderingen in het bodemleven worden in kaart gebracht met het SIBES-project. Elk jaar worden dieren in ruim 5.000…
Monday 15 May 2023
Marine biodiversity in the Ems Dollart area
As part of the project Wadden Mosaic, the habitats and biodiversity of the subtidal Wadden are mapped for the first time - the part of the Dutch Wadden Sea that is permanently submerged. The Wadden Sea is a nature area of international and national…
Tuesday 11 April 2023
OASIS cruise | Exploring the Alboran Sea
During the OASIS cruise, awarded to ICM CSIC by Eurofleets+, we are exploring a little part of this wilderness in the Alboran sea in the westernmost part of Mediterranean Sea.
Tuesday 07 March 2023
RV Pelagia expedition 64PE514 - DUST2023
In March 2023, an international group of dusty scientists will board RV Pelagia for an expedition around the Cape Verde Islands to study Saharan-dust deposition and its effects on the marine environment. Colleagues from NIOZ, MARE - Lisbon, MARUM -…
Monday 27 February 2023
The WISE Expedition to West Antarctic Peninsula
Approximately a year ago from today, NIOZ scientists Julia Engelmann and Swan Sow, along with assisting PhD student Dina Castillo set off on a sampling expedition for the Women in Science Excel (WISE) project.
The expedition ran from Feb-May…
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Transforming harbour sediments from waste product into resource
Supervisor
Peter Kraal
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Jun 2020 - 31 Dec 2025
NoSE - WP3 Paleo reconstructions
Supervisor
Peter Kraal
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Oct 2022 - 31 Dec 2027
Impact of waste streams on marine ecology
Supervisor
Peter Kraal
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Oct 2022 - 31 Dec 2027
NoSE - WP2 Benthic processes
Supervisor
Furu Mienis
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Oct 2022 - 31 Dec 2027
FS2S_Transition to a sustainable marine LTA protein production system
Supervisor
Klaas Timmermans
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Apr 2022 - 31 Mar 2026
NoSE_North Sea Atlantic Exchange
Supervisor
Matthew Humphreys
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Oct 2022 - 31 Dec 2027
Regional sea-level budget
Supervisor
Aimée Slangen
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2022
PROTECT; WP7 Regional sea-level change & implications
Supervisor
Aimée Slangen
Funder
European Community || European Research Council
Project duration
1 Sep 2020 - 30 Sep 2024
How do migratory birds find their way
Supervisor
Tamar Lok
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research - Veni/Vidi/Vici
Project duration
1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2021
Small steps, giant leaps
Supervisor
Tjisse van der Heide
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research - Veni/Vidi/Vici
Project duration
1 Jul 2018 - 30 Jun 2023
FutureMARES
Supervisor
Myron Peck
Funder
European Community || Horizon 2020
Project duration
1 Sep 2020 - 31 Aug 2024
Coping with phenological mismatch
Supervisor
Jan van Gils
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2021
WATLAS - advanced tracking and localisation of shorebirds
Supervisor
Allert Bijleveld
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research - Veni/Vidi/Vici
Project duration
1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2024
Arctic warming and migrant shorebirds
Supervisor
Jan van Gils
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research - Veni/Vidi/Vici
Project duration
1 Oct 2019 - 1 Oct 2024
Trace metals & the Artic-Atlantic gateway in a changing world
Supervisor
Rob Middag
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research - Veni/Vidi/Vici
Project duration
15 Nov 2018 - 31 Oct 2023
Spisula subtruncata in NL kustwateren
Supervisor
Katja Philippart
Funder
European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF)
Project duration
1 May 2018 - 30 Apr 2021
Pilotfase vismonitoringfuik in de Zoutkamperlaag
Supervisor
Henk van der Veer
Funder
Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality
Project duration
4 Dec 2017 - 31 Dec 2020
Tidal Energy Fish Impact
Supervisor
Marck Smit
Funder
Stichting Nederland Maritiem Land
Project duration
1 Mar 2016 - 31 Dec 2016
From ice to deep ocean: Where does the freshwater go?
Supervisor
Femke de Jong
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research - Veni/Vidi/Vici
Project duration
1 Dec 2018 - 30 Nov 2023
NWO_Ruimteonderzoek_Consequences of global change for ecosystem engineering of shellfish
Supervisor
Daphne van der Wal
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Jan 2012 - 30 Aug 2016
MARSH_Saltmarshes under stress
Supervisor
Daphne van der Wal
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Jul 2016 - 30 Jun 2020
NWO_BenthicDiatoms as indicators for ecosystem structuring in tidal shallow waters
Supervisor
Daphne van der Wal
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Jul 2013 - 1 Feb 2018
Plastic in the Ocean: Microbial Transformation of an ‘Unconventional’ Carbon Substrate
Supervisor
Helge Niemann
Funder
European Community || European Research Council
Project duration
1 Jun 2018 - 31 May 2023
The applying of nature-based coastal defence
Supervisor
Tjeerd Bouma
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Oct 2017 - 31 Dec 2021
BodyShrinkage
Supervisor
Jan van Gils
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Feb 2018 - 31 Jan 2022
Polar marine diversity and dynamics
Supervisor
Corina Brussaard
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
23 May 2017 - 22 May 2021
Data Management Nieuw Nederlands Polair Programma
Supervisor
Taco de Bruin
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Dec 2015 - 31 Dec 2018
NWO BwN BE-SAFE
Supervisor
Tjeerd Bouma
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Jan 2013 - 31 Dec 2018
Microbial lipids: Exploring the natural variability of an unique set of cell constituents
Supervisor
Stefan Schouten
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Jan 2017 - 31 Jan 2020
The New Delta - iSee
Supervisor
Johan van de Koppel
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Jun 2015 - 30 Sep 2019
ARAMACC algemeen
Supervisor
Rob Witbaard
Funder
European Community || Marie Curie
Project duration
1 Sep 2013 - 16 Mar 2018
Biological sources and genetic controls of the paleotemperature proxy TEX86
Supervisor
Laura Villanueva
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Nov 2017 - 30 Oct 2021
NWO BwN Emergo Ysebaert
Supervisor
Tjeerd Bouma
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Jan 2013 - 31 Aug 2018
PACEMAKER
Supervisor
Jaap Sinninghe Damsté
Funder
European Community || European Research Council
Project duration
1 Jan 2009 - 31 Jul 2015
Rates and mechanisms of coral dissolution by bioeroding sponges
Supervisor
Lennart de Nooijer
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Jan 2014 - 31 Jan 2019
Bioerosion and 3D complexity of coral reefs in a changing environment
Supervisor
Fleur van Duyl
Funder
Wageningen Marine Research
Project duration
16 Jun 2014 - 16 Jun 2018
Long term coral reef community monitoring
Supervisor
Fleur van Duyl
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research - Structural financial support
Project duration
1 Aug 2012 - 31 Dec 2017
POMVIDDY_Polar marine diversity and dynamics
Supervisor
Corina Brussaard
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
23 May 2017 - 22 May 2021
FePhyrus_Iron limitation and viral lysis, phytoplankton caught between a rock and a hard place
Supervisor
Rob Middag
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 May 2017 - 30 Apr 2021
Benthic-pelagic coupling on coral reefs of the Saba Bank and Saba
Supervisor
Fleur van Duyl
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Jan 2014 - 1 Feb 2019
Smartsediment_Innovative sediment management in the Scheldt Delta
Supervisor
Tjeerd Bouma
Funder
Interreg Vlaanderen-Nederland
Project duration
1 Sep 2016 - 31 Aug 2019
RECON-INSITE
Supervisor
Pieternella Luttikhuizen
Funder
Wageningen University and Research
Project duration
1 Sep 2016 - 31 Aug 2017
Power analysis schrimp fisheries with electro pulse
Supervisor
Jaap van der Meer
Funder
Ministry of Economic Affairs
Project duration
1 May 2016 - 31 Oct 2016
SCENES_Stability of Caribbean coastal Ecosystems uNder future Extreme Sea leve changes
Supervisor
Tjeerd Bouma
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 May 2014 - 28 Feb 2019
SCANALOGUE_Geochemical scanning of climate change analogues to assess future hypoxia in restricted basins
Supervisor
Gert-Jan Reichart
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Sep 2016 - 31 Aug 2019
PULS_Impact Assessment of Pulstrawl Fishery (IAPF)
Supervisor
Karline Soetaert
Funder
Wageningen Marine Research
Project duration
1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2019
Icy_Internal tides in the ocean of icy moons
Supervisor
Gert-Jan Reichart
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Apr 2015 - 31 Mar 2019
PASODOBLE_Production of Shells under Ocean acidification: DOes calcification Become more or Less Energy-efficient?
Supervisor
Lennart de Nooijer
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Dec 2016 - 28 Feb 2021
Effects of Tidal-Induced Fluid Dynamics for the Moons of Jupiter and Saturn
Supervisor
Bert Vermeersen
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Nov 2016 - 31 Oct 2020
BYPASS_The unknown role of Submarine canyons? Pathways or sinks for Organic Carbon?
Supervisor
Furu Mienis
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research - Veni/Vidi/Vici
Project duration
1 Sep 2016 - 31 Aug 2021
Conservation of the dynamic Island of Griend
Supervisor
Theunis Piersma
Funder
Vereniging Natuurmonumenten
Project duration
1 May 2014 - 1 Jul 2020
FATE_Fate of cold-water coral reefs - identifying drivers of ecosystem change
Supervisor
Gert-Jan Reichart
Funder
Institute of Marine Research Norway
Project duration
1 May 2015 - 31 Dec 2018
Seawater chemistry of CO2 system and nutrients as drivers of benthic community structure and carbon metabolism of coral reef ecosystems of different trophic status in the Caribbean
Supervisor
Gert-Jan Reichart
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Feb 2015 - 31 Dec 2018
OFFBOL_The origin and fate of Fe binding organic ligands
Supervisor
Loes Gerringa
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Jan 2013 - 31 Mar 2017
DustTraffic: Transatlantic fluxes of Saharan dust: changing climate through fertilising the ocean?
Supervisor
Jan-Berend Stuut
Funder
European Community || European Research Council
Project duration
1 Oct 2012 - 30 Sep 2017
More Value with Mussels
Supervisor
Tjeerd Bouma
Funder
HZ University of Applied Sciences
Project duration
1 Jul 2015 - 31 Aug 2019
NWO SANDBOX_Smart and sustainable design for offshore operations in a sandy seabed
Supervisor
Karline Soetaert
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
28 May 2015 - 31 Aug 2019
HYTECH_Hydrodynamic Transport in Ecologically Critical Heterogeneous interfaces
Supervisor
Tjeerd Bouma
Funder
European Community || Marie Curie
Project duration
1 Jan 2013 - 31 Jul 2017
STW NatureCoast_Nature-driven nourishment of coastal systems
Supervisor
Tom Ysebaert
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Dec 2012 - 31 Mar 2017
Seaweed Hatchery: selection of clones for growth in North Sea farms
Supervisor
Klaas Timmermans
Funder
Ministry of Economic Affairs
Project duration
1 Jan 2016 - 31 Aug 2016
JPIO_Structure and (mal) functioning of an abyssal food web following a large-scale disturbance revealed with stable isotope tracer experiments and food-web modelling
Supervisor
Dick van Oevelen
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2017
Role of deep-sea sponges on carbon and nitrogen flows in deep-sea food webs
Supervisor
Tanja Stratmann
Funder
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Project duration
1 Jan 2017 - 30 Jun 2017
NWO-VIDI Surviving in a Deep-Sea Desert - Uncovering the Functioning of Cold-Water Coral Reefs in the Deep Ocean
Supervisor
Dick van Oevelen
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Jul 2014 - 30 Jun 2019
PACE
Supervisor
Theo Gerkema
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Jan 2011 - 30 Sep 2015
IN PLACE
Supervisor
Eric Wagemaakers
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research - Ocean and Coastal Research
Project duration
1 Oct 2008 - 1 Dec 2015
Age determination in bivalves
Supervisor
Henk van der Veer
Funder
University of Porto || Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research
Project duration
1 Jun 2008 - 31 Dec 2015
INFOWEB
Supervisor
Henk van der Veer
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research - Ocean and Coastal Research
Project duration
1 Jan 2011 - 1 Oct 2016
Effects of invasive species
Supervisor
David Thieltges
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research - Ocean and Coastal Research
Project duration
31 Dec 2011 - 30 Aug 2020
Diet of Gulls
Supervisor
Myron Peck
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research - Dynamisering
Project duration
1 Jun 2013 - 31 Dec 2018
Cascading predator-prey effects
Supervisor
Jan van Gils
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Oct 2010 - 30 Sep 2017
Shorebirds in space
Supervisor
Theunis Piersma
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
31 Dec 2011 - 31 Aug 2016
Impact of avian migrant predators
Supervisor
Jan van Gils
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research - Veni/Vidi/Vici
Project duration
1 Feb 2010 - 31 Jul 2017
Benthic Metabarcoding
Supervisor
Lise Klunder - Kleine Schaars
Funder
University of Groningen
Project duration
1 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2018
TRAFFIC_Transatlantic fluxes of Saharan dust
Supervisor
Jan-Berend Stuut
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
31 Dec 2012 - 31 Dec 2017
Microbial lipids: Exploring the natural variability of an unique set of cell constituents
Supervisor
Laura Villanueva
Funder
European Community || European Research Council
Project duration
1 Sep 2016 - 30 Sep 2021
Past Continental Climate Change: Temperatures from marine and lacustrine archives
Supervisor
Jaap Sinninghe Damsté
Funder
European Community || European Research Council
Project duration
31 Dec 2008 - 31 Dec 2014
Metabolic Networks
Supervisor
Henk Bolhuis
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
31 Dec 2011 - 16 Jul 2017
ERC Long chain diols as novel organic proxies for paleoclimate reconstructions
Supervisor
Stefan Schouten
Funder
European Community || European Research Council
Project duration
2 Jan 2014 - 1 Apr 2021
VIRARCT_Importance of microbial viral lysis over grazing in a changing Arctic Ocean
Supervisor
Corina Brussaard
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
1 Dec 2015 - 30 Sep 2016
Assessing Amazon paleohydrological and paleotemperature changes using lipid biomarkers
Supervisor
Jaap Sinninghe Damsté
Funder
European Community
Project duration
1 Sep 2012 - 31 May 2016
Genes for Biosynthetic pathways of Biomarker Lipids
Supervisor
Jaap Sinninghe Damsté
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research - Dynamisering
Project duration
5 Dec 2013 - 5 Jul 2019
Tracing ancient biomass burning using molecular biomarkers in marine and lake sediments
Supervisor
Stefan Schouten
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
6 Nov 2015 - 10 Jun 2020
