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Friday 26 September 2025
NIOZ en het Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat bekrachtigen samenwerking
Op vrijdag 26 september ondertekenden Han Dolman, directeur van het Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee (NIOZ) en de heer Jan Hendrik Dronkers, secretaris-generaal van het ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat een…
Thursday 25 September 2025
How salt-tolerant floodplain forests can continue to protect us
Floodplain forests along rivers that protect us from flooding are threatened by salinisation. PhD candidate Eleonora Saccon shows that black alders are more resistant to salt stress than white willows. Creeks with special, natural shapes are also…
Monday 22 September 2025
Decades-old fish stomach contents reveal: who eats whom in the Wadden Sea?
Using a unique treasure of data, marine biologist Suzanne Poiesz investigated the fish food web in the Wadden Sea between 1946 and the present day for the first time. Dissected stomach contents revealed who eats whom. The position of species in that…
Monday 22 September 2025
Lutjewad is one of four crucial locations for spoonbills in the Eastern Wadden Sea region
Spoonbills spend a large part of the summer outside their protected breeding grounds.
After breeding, the migratory birds gather on the mudflats of Lutjewad, on the coast of Groningen. Research by BirdEyes shows the seasonal movements of spoonbills…
Tuesday 16 September 2025
Student found the first Pacific barnacles in the Wadden Sea
NIOZ researchers have found the Pacific barnacle Balanus glandula in the Wadden Sea for the first time. Until now, this species was only known to exist in European waters in Belgium and on the south coast of the Western Scheldt. It probably travels…
Friday 22 August 2025
Foraminifers: the smallest organisms drive the biggest processes
The increasing amount of CO2 we are pumping into the atmosphere causes ocean acidification. That could pose a serious problem for calcifying organisms, such as shellfish and corals. And for foraminifers, but they appear to have their own solution to…
Tuesday 05 August 2025
Update construction RV Anna Weber-van Bosse
Work continues at the Armon Astilleros shipyard in Vigo also during the summer. The ship is scheduled for delivery at the end of this year. "It is great to see how all the plans and ideas are now becoming reality. Soon the Anna Weber van Bosse will…
Thursday 17 July 2025
Veni grant for Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt to study ancient cellular membrane mystery
NIOZ-researcher Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt has been awarded a Veni grant for his research project to study an ancient cellular membrane mystery. With the grant of 320,000 euros, he aims to enlighten the evolution and origin of two membrane types in all…
Wednesday 09 July 2025
Tremendous amount of plastic floats as nanoparticles in the ocean
The total amount of plastic floating in the North Atlantic Ocean as particles of less than 1 micrometer each is estimated at 27 million tons. This is shown by a comprehensive study by the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and…
Wednesday 09 July 2025
Life in the shallows: tracking fish movement within and beyond the Dutch Wadden Sea
Large fish species that live in the Wadden Sea in summer turn out to make quite a journey in winter. PhD student Jena Edwards discovered this by giving the fish a transmitter. She also saw how tagged animals use very specific areas of the Wadden Sea,…
