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Monday 09 December 2024
What will happen to the fish in the Wadden Sea when conditions change?
PhD student Bass Dye, studied temperature preferences of fish, as part of the Waddentools Swimway Wadden Sea project. With these data he created a model to predict how fish will respond to future changes caused by climate change.
Thursday 05 December 2024
Researchers: gas extraction Ameland has ecological impact
Gas extraction under Ameland has ecological impact. This is the conclusion of researchers Martijn van de Pol (James Cook University) and Allert Bijleveld (NIOZ) together with several colleagues in an article in the journal De Levende Natuur. For…
Tuesday 03 December 2024
Research shows shortcomings in protection of underwater nature Wadden Sea
New results from the Wadden Mosaic research programme show that only 10 per cent of the underwater nature in the Wadden Sea is effectively protected. Moreover, protective measures, such as the designation of protected areas, still often appear to…
Monday 02 December 2024
The turbid Dutch coastal waters: latent silt transport to the Wadden Sea
The Dutch coast serves as a key transit zone for suspended sediment—a transit zone for sediment moving from the Strait of Dover to the Wadden Sea. This sediment supports the Wadden Sea ecosystem by creating nutrient-rich soils and maintaining…
Friday 08 November 2024
Marine microbes are our link to 'System Earth'
They produce half of all the oxygen in the oceans and the atmosphere, they eat a lot of greenhouse gases, but under oxygen-free conditions, they also produce methane and other greenhouse gases. In other words, bacteria and other marine microbes are a…
Thursday 07 November 2024
ORC Funding for impacts offshore wind farms North Sea
A consortium of Dutch scientists start a five-year research project on the effects of offshore wind farms on North Sea ecology and economic activities. NWO awarded the NO REGRETS project 6.7 million euros. The program is coordinated by Myron Peck of…
Thursday 31 October 2024
Research Vessel Anna Weber-van Bosse launched, construction halfway through
The RV Anna Weber-van Bosse has been launched in Spain. In a year's time, the new flagship of the Dutch research fleet will be ready for use. Gert-Jan Reichart, responsible for the scientific side of the project, calls on Dutch (marine) scientists to…
Tuesday 29 October 2024
Unlocking Earth's Climate History: Foraminifera and Trace Elements
In her thesis, titled "Novel proxies in Foraminifera: Biomineralization and Trace Elements", PhD candidate Laura Pacho Sampedro focuses on improving methods to reconstruct past environments and climates, an increasingly urgent task as climate change…
Tuesday 29 October 2024
Surprising findings on bacterial growth as a threat to coral reefs
A new study by an international team of researchers from NIOZ and other institutes, led by the University of Bremen suggests that on algae-dominated coral reefs, it is not the algae but the corals themselves that may contribute to the growth of…
Thursday 24 October 2024
Antarctic sea is loaded with unknown viruses
Out of thousands of marine viruses that were discovered in Antarctic waters in the past two years, 75 percent was new to science. That is shown in a paper that was published in Nature Communications on 24 October 2024, by NIOZ PhD candidate Gonçalo…
