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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…
Wednesday 12 February 2025
Deep-sea telescope KM3NeT detects highest-energy neutrino ever
The KM3NeT neutrino telescope has detected a cosmic neutrino with a record energy of approximately 220 PeV. The international partnership behind KM3NeT announced this in a publication in scientific journal Nature. The high-energy particle was…
Wednesday 05 February 2025
1.4 million euros for Dutch research into impact of deep-sea mining
The Dutch contributing partners of the international MiningImpact3 consortium have been awarded 1.4 million euros, to study the long-term ecological impacts of deep-sea mining, as well as the legal and technological aspects of it. The Dutch…
Tuesday 04 February 2025
A fascinating coastal dweller: the cut trough shell
A small mollusc inhabits our coastal waters: the cut trough shell. This animal thrives best in shallow seas with fine sand and mild weather conditions. Not only natural factors play a role in population dynamics: trawlfishing, targeting shrimps and…
