Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

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Visualisation

Every dataset tells a story. Data visualisation is as important as the actual significance of data. Patterns, trends and correlations can be recognised and exposed easier when data are placed in a visual context. Data visualisation is an integral part of presenting scientific data in a convincing way.

To the bottom of the Wadden Sea

To the bottom of the Wadden Sea

Monitoring | Joint data from RWS-NN, WUR-Marine and NIOZ has been used to visualize the underwater life down to the bottom of the Wadden Sea.

Virtual nature

Video | This video shows how we combine ecological models with 3D computer graphics techniques to generate natural virtual worlds.

WATLAS - bird tracking

WATLAS - bird tracking

Tracking | With WATLAS (Wadden Sea Advanced Tracking and Localisation of Animals in real life Systems) we follow where Red Knots go in the Wadden Sea.

Foraging areas Herring gulls

Foraging areas Herring gulls

Tracking | An breeding colony, of 5000 pairs of Herring Gulls, is found on the Wadden Island Texel and has been studied since 2006.

Mussel bed pattern formation

Mussel bed pattern formation

Model | A simple model to show that interaction of algal competition and density- dependent mortality can explain the formation patterns in mussels.

Tracking Eurasian Spoonbills

Tracking Eurasian Spoonbills

Tracking | Since 2012 we have tracked Eurasian spoonbills from the Wadden breeding colonies in The Netherlands with UVA-bits GPS-loggers.

Tracking movements Spoonbills

Tracking movements Spoonbills

Tracking | Follow young spoonbills on their first southward migration. Twenty juvenile spoonbills are equipped with sophisticated GPS-GSM trackers.

Multi-scale movements gulls

Multi-scale movements gulls

Tracking | Since the breeding season of 2008 we have tracked 79 adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls breeding in the Kelderhuispolder on Texel.