Spoonbills Blog
Monday 09 September 2024
BLOG | Shrimp sampling 2024
A while ago, I was invited to join this year’s shrimp sampling and I have been looking forward to this trip ever since! My name is Nienke Zwaferink, I am currently studying Marine Biology at the University of Groningen. For my master’s, I am studying…
Monday 19 August 2024
NIOZ@SEA | Methane-emission-in-the-North-Sea-III
Methane escapes from the seabed of the North Sea in various places. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas and its release into the sea and subsequent release into the atmosphere can contribute to global warming. The methane release would mainly be…
Wednesday 10 July 2024
Education@NIOZ: Marine Masters Summer Course 2024
From July 7 to 19, the NIOZ Marine Masters Summer Course (MaMa course) will be held at NIOZ Texel. This year, 36 students from 12 universities across Europe will participate, representing diverse programs: Climate Physics, (marine) Biology, Molecular…
Friday 05 July 2024
New dusty paper out: high-resolution dust monitoring off northwest Africa
In their new paper that was published today in the journal Frontiers in Marine Sciences, Blanda Matzenbacher and colleagues from VU and NIOZ present the first year of the unprecedented high resolution (4 days!) Saharan dust monitoring sediment-trap…
Monday 17 June 2024
NIOZ@Sea: The Weeds of Change expedition
The brown macroalgal genus Sargassum, the namesake of the Sargasso Sea, is an essential habitat and refuge for many organisms including endemic species. Historically, this so-called 'golden rainforest of the Atlantic Ocean' was constrained to the…
Wednesday 01 May 2024
NIOZ@Sea | 2nd North-Sea Atlantic Exchange (NoSe) expedition
The biologically productive North Sea impacts the global climate through exchange of carbon and nutrients with the Atlantic Ocean. The North Sea is a very productive coastal sea. A lot of carbon dioxide (CO2) can be taken up through physical,…
Sunday 07 April 2024
Early April 2024 Saharan dust to Europe - event
Early April 2024, a big dust cloud took off from Northwest Africa and was blown North across Western Europe. The dust caused spectacular sunsets and caught a lot of media attention. Since we know very little about long-distance aeolian (wind-blown)…
Wednesday 06 March 2024
NIOZ@SEA | Final recovery of 3D high-precision temperature array
After several years of preparation, a team of NIOZ-NMF constructed a large mooring array in the harbor of La Seyne-sur-mer (Toulon, France) in 8 days of October 2020. The compacted array of 45 instrumented lines mounted on a steel cable grid inside a…
Monday 26 February 2024
Final recovery of 3D high-precision temperature array
Tuesday 09 January 2024
SEALINK Cruise
Between the 4th and 23rd of January, a team of scientists are on board the RV Pelagia to collect a second set of data and samples for the SEALINK project. This is a large, interdisciplinary project running from 2021 to 2025 in which Dutch and…
