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The Netherlands and Germany are jointly investing €15 million in research projects aimed at effective protection and management of the Wadden Sea. NIOZ researchers are involved in 3 of the 5 awarded projects, in which they will work, among other…

A parasite that not only feeds of its host, but also makes the host change its own metabolism and thus biology. NIOZ microbiologists Su Ding and Joshua Hamm, Nicole Bale, Jaap Sinninghe Damsté and Anja Spang have shown this for the very first time in…

Due to the changing climate, young herring arrive in the Wadden Sea earlier and earlier in spring. That is shown in a new publication by NIOZ ecologists Mark Rademaker, Myron Peck and Anieke van Leeuwen, in this month's journal Global Change Biology.…

A biodegradable stocking, containing a core of coconut rope and empty cockle shells; that appears to be a good recipe for catching mussel larvae and letting them grow into small mussels. The PhD-thesis of Lisanne van den Bogaart, a marine biologist…

To preserve the important intertidal areas and salt marshes off our coasts for the future, we need more turbid water. That is one of the striking conclusions from a new study conducted by a Dutch-Chinese team of researchers and published today in…

Professor dr. Linda Amaral-Zettler, Research Leader at NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research and the Chair in Marine Microbiology at the University of Amsterdam has been awarded a prestigious Advanced ERC-grant by the European Commission…

Fish and invertebrate animals are far more affected by warmer and more acidic seawater than was previously known. This is the conclusion of a study co-led by NIOZ marine biologist Katharina Alter, based on a new analysis method and published in the…

Het Belgisch-Nederlandse Geopark Schelde Delta ontvangt officieel het UNESCO Global Geopark keurmerk. Dat betekent dat UNESCO het gebied van het Schelde estuarium zó geologisch, cultuurhistorisch en landschappelijk uniek vindt dat de regio zich…

As more and more nutrients from land and air enter the world’s oceans, the dead zones without oxygen in the water will increase in size and intensity. That is the warning that PhD student Zoë van Kemenade, an organic geochemist at NIOZ, draws from…