News
Monday 03 October 2022
Bird flu goes offshore | Sudden spread of 'highly pathogenic' virus among seabirds and even marine mammals
After years of outbreaks among both domesticated and wild birds on land, the bird flu virus H5N1 has moved to sea. In addition to the massive outbreak among sandwich terns, from Texel to northern France, thousands of seabirds have perished in the…
Monday 26 September 2022
NWO grant for research on the corals across the Caribbean Islands
NIOZ scientist Andi Haas received a NWO-Open Competition Domain Science-M grant for his research on the corals across the Caribbean Islands. In an unprecedented effort over almost half a century Dutch researchers documented the dramatic decline of…
Tuesday 13 September 2022
Using eyes in the sky to locate seals in a rapidly changing Arctic
The polar regions are some of the most inaccessible places of our planet. Figuring out where different seal species reside in this fast-changing environment is challenging. Researchers from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea research (NIOZ),…
Tuesday 06 September 2022
NIOZ opent haar deuren in Yerseke tijdens het Weekend van de Wetenschap
Wil jij ontdekken hoe de natuur ons helpt tegen overstromingen? Waarvoor je zeewier allemaal kunt gebruiken? Wil je zelf een zeebodemmonster nemen? Met Virtual Reality verleden en toekomst van Zeeland ervaren? Een echt onderzoekschip bezoeken? Kom…
Monday 22 August 2022
Nature compensation for Maasvlakte 2 still not realized
The nature compensation for the construction of Maasvlakte 2, as agreed with the government in 2008, has not actually been realized. That is the conclusion that coastal ecologist Professor Tjisse van der Heide draws in a memorandum he wrote after…
Monday 22 August 2022
EU-Horizon Europe funding for ACTNOW project
Human activities have created unprecedented, cumulative threats resulting in stunning losses of biodiversity in our oceans. This is leading to well‐documented declines in seafood resources, losses of iconic and culturally valuable habitats, and…
Wednesday 17 August 2022
Exhibition draws attention to plastic pollution
Arnold Gronert spent years beachcombing near Petten (Noord-Holland), or looking for washed up birds and marine mammals. He made an enormous contribution to the strandings dataset, kept for decades at NIOZ and at Naturalis. The spectacular amounts of…
Friday 05 August 2022
Microbes don’t descend down with plastic particles into the deep sea
A bit of good news from the deep sea. Research has shown that microbes on floating plastic particles can be transported over long horizontal distances. New research carried out by Annika Vaksmaa (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research NIOZ) and…
Monday 01 August 2022
Illuminating the role of Woeseiales bacteria as sources of N2O in marine sediments
Pierre Offre was granted a four year research project by NWO into nitrous oxide producing bacteria. From the coastline to the deep-sea, the bacterial group referred to as Woeseiales is abundant in seafloor sediments, accounting for 10-20% of all…
Friday 29 July 2022
How coastal seas help the ocean in absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
The biologically productive North Sea impacts the global climate through exchange of carbon and nutrients with the Atlantic Ocean. A Dutch consortium of scientists will investigate how big this role of the North Sea really is. Under the leadership of…
