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This is the third and final year of tracking juvenile spoonbills as part of my VENI project, with the aim to investigate the importance of genetic and a variety of environmental factors in shaping migration routes of young spoonbills. This knowledge…

Het IPCC-rapport 2021 is uit, het VN-klimaatrapport dat ruwweg om de zeven jaar verschijnt. Het rapport geeft een overzicht van de meest recente inzichten en bevindingen van klimaatonderzoek van experts dat over de hele wereld wordt gedaan.…

In my line of work it is not common to get asked to accompany a fieldwork expedition. This is surprising, as a lot of the people working at NIOZ can be found in the field (or more usually, on the water) at some point in time. For a…

An interdisciplinary team of 12 Marine Chemistry, Biology, and Geology scientists and technicians from the Netherlands, Canada and UK, together with the 13-headed Pelagia crew, will embark on a research expedition to the High Latitude North Atlantic…

Has water chemistry an effect on the propagation of sound in the ocean? The sound emitted in the ocean decreases exponentially with distance. One of the components contributing to this decrease is the absorption of sound by the seawater chemical…

New dusty paper out: rain determines the seasonality in dust deposition across the subtropical north Atlantic Ocean. In their new paper that appeared online in the Journal of Geophysical Research, Michèlle van der Does and colleagues present the…

In het recent verschenen Amerikaanse boek ‘A World on the Wing’ wordt Theunis Piersma getypeerd als een legende in de wereld van de kustvogels. Hij dankt zijn wereldwijde reputatie ondermeer aan zijn studie aan de vogeltrek, waarbij hij vogels een…

The marine environment around Iceland with its submarine ridges provides an area perfectly suited for investigating evolution, ecological resilience, and the impact of climate change. The hydrothermal vent fields along the ridges are biologically and…

A team of 5 scientists (led by PI Dr Fleur Visser (NIOZ, UvA)) embarked on R.V. Pelagia for 6 days and 5 nights off the island of Terceira in the Azores to further extend our knowledge of deep-sea prey, hunted by deep-sea specialist whale predators…