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Friday 14 February 2025
Information about the entire intertidal Wadden Sea available for research and management
With a recent publication in the journal Scientific Data, NIOZ researchers have made the data from the SIBES research programme from 2008 to 2021 available to the community. In SIBES, all tidal flats in the Dutch Wadden Sea are sampled annually for…
Wednesday 12 February 2025
Deep-sea telescope KM3NeT detects highest-energy neutrino ever
The KM3NeT neutrino telescope has detected a cosmic neutrino with a record energy of approximately 220 PeV. The international partnership behind KM3NeT announced this in a publication in scientific journal Nature. The high-energy particle was…
Wednesday 05 February 2025
1.4 million euros for Dutch research into impact of deep-sea mining
The Dutch contributing partners of the international MiningImpact3 consortium have been awarded 1.4 million euros, to study the long-term ecological impacts of deep-sea mining, as well as the legal and technological aspects of it. The Dutch…
Tuesday 04 February 2025
A fascinating coastal dweller: the cut trough shell
A small mollusc inhabits our coastal waters: the cut trough shell. This animal thrives best in shallow seas with fine sand and mild weather conditions. Not only natural factors play a role in population dynamics: trawlfishing, targeting shrimps and…
Tuesday 28 January 2025
Underwater robot offers helping hands in ocean depths
NIOZ has acquired a Remotely Operated Vehicle for the National Research Fleet: an underwater robot that can conduct measurements and perform useful tasks on the sea floor. This underwater robot, equipped with cameras and gripping arms, offers some…
Tuesday 28 January 2025
NWO Open Technology Programme funds research on landscape restoration with biodegradable structures
Developing biodegradable structures that can restore important coastal ecosystems and peatlands. That is the goal of research project BIOPRIME, by NIOZ researchers Tjisse van der Heide and Tjeerd Bouma and Ralph Temmink of Utrecht University. It is…
Thursday 23 January 2025
Coastal Waters: an underestimated source of methane
Shallow coastal waters are hotspots for methane emissions, releasing significant amounts of this potent greenhouse gas into the atmosphere and contributing to global warming. This new research highlights how tides, seasons, and ocean currents…
Thursday 16 January 2025
Nitrogen processes and the ‘breathless seas
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. Zoë van Kemenade has focused her PhD research project on combining fossil molecules and chemical…
Wednesday 15 January 2025
When scientists meet chefs: talking about sustainable fish in restaurants
Ask a chef how old the fish is that he serves, and chances are the answer will be something like ‘2 days’: that’s when the fish was caught. More often than not, both the chef and dinner guest don’t know that that piece of sole or turbot can easily be…
Thursday 09 January 2025
Understanding the ocean’s role in climate regulation
The ocean is an important factor in mitigating climate change: it absorbs 25-30% of all the CO₂ which is brought in the atmosphere by humans. Louise Delaigue has focused her PhD research project on how this works, and how the increase of CO₂ changes…
