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Thursday 20 March 2025
Sea level rise after the last ice age: more knowledge
New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, about 11,700 years ago. This information is of great importance to understand the impact global warming has had on the ice…
Wednesday 19 March 2025
Asian clam finds its way to the Wadden Sea
‘T HORNTJE, MARCH 19TH, 2025 – The Asian clam has found its way to the Dutch Wadden Sea. This is shown by field researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), during their yearly ecological survey ‘SIBES’ (the Synoptic Intertidal…
Tuesday 18 March 2025
A promising approach to advance proxy-based pCO2 reconstructions.
Carbon continuously moves between the atmosphere, oceans, land, and Earth's crust through natural processes such as erosion and plant growth. These shifts influence atmospheric CO₂ levels over time, making it crucial to study past changes in marine…
Monday 17 March 2025
Water at war: the long-term environmental consequences of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine
Water is misused as a weapon when infrastructure and water resources are deliberately destroyed in armed conflicts. Water resources and infrastructure are also affected by the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine: In June 2023, the Kakhovka dam, which…
Tuesday 11 March 2025
Announcement about the Marine Microbial Chemical Communication Conference
From 17-20 March NIOZ is hosting an international symposium on Marine Microbial Chemical Communication. This is an international symposium with scientists visiting from all over the world. The Weizmann Institute of Science of Israel is one of the…
Monday 10 March 2025
Climate affects microbial life around Antarctica
Bacteria and other single-celled microorganisms in the seas around Antarctica are strongly influenced by water temperature and the amount of sea ice. This is shown by coordinated measurements taken off the coast of the west Antarctic Peninsula. "Even…
Friday 07 March 2025
SUBES research programme investigates the species composition of the subtidal Wadden Sea
NIOZ will conduct research on behalf of Rijkswaterstaat into the soil inhabiting animals and soil composition in the deeper parts of the Dutch Wadden Sea: the areas that are permanently under water. The research consists of collecting and processing…
Wednesday 05 March 2025
Alfred Treibs Award for Ellen Hopmans
Ellen Hopmans, head of Analytical Laboratory of the MMB department at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, will receive the 2025 the Alfred Treibs Award. Presented by the Geochemical Society, the award is given for major achievements,…
Wednesday 26 February 2025
Investigating paleotemperature proxies based on archaeal hydroxylated tetraether lipids
Understanding past sea surface temperatures (SSTs) is crucial for reconstructing Earth's climate history. Devika Varma has focused her PhD research project on specific biomolecules produced by archaea, called OH-isoGDGTs,as SST proxies. By evaluating…
Friday 14 February 2025
Information about the entire intertidal Wadden Sea available for research and management
With a recent publication in the journal Scientific Data, NIOZ researchers have made the data from the SIBES research programme from 2008 to 2021 available to the community. In SIBES, all tidal flats in the Dutch Wadden Sea are sampled annually for…
