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Thursday 09 January 2025
Understanding the ocean’s role in climate regulation
The ocean is an important factor in mitigating climate change: it absorbs 25-30% of all the CO₂ which is brought in the atmosphere by humans. Louise Delaigue has focused her PhD research project on how this works, and how the increase of CO₂ changes…
Monday 06 January 2025
IVN/NIOZ lezingen 2025
Van januari tot en met april vinden er 5 IVN/NIOZ lezingen plaats met als thema: Van Zon tot Zeehond. Wie eet wat op het wad? De energie van de zon zorgt voor groei en bloei van algen, de schelp- en andere dieren eten de algen, die worden weer…
Thursday 19 December 2024
Strategic Funding Boosts Marine Robotics at NIOZ
The NIOZ has been awarded €2,891,000 from the NWO-I Strategic Innovation Fund 2025. This funding is a significant step forward in the project "Transitions in Oceanographic Research: A New Ship and Autonomous Vessel Development", which aims to…
Tuesday 17 December 2024
NWO-Science XL Award for Resolving Marine Phytoplankton–Virus Interactions
A consortium led by Prof. Dr. Corina Brussaard of NIOZ has been awarded a three-million-euro grant to study the impact of viruses on phytoplankton—tiny ocean plants. Understanding these interactions is critical, as climate change is already…
Monday 09 December 2024
Hidden below the surface
The North Atlantic’s overturning regulates Europe’s climate by transporting warm waters northward and cold waters southward. One of the currents in this overturning is the Irminger Current, located in the Irminger Sea, southeast of Greenland. Nora…
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…
