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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…

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…

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…

Van januari tot en met april vinden er 5 IVN/NIOZ lezingen plaats met als thema: Van Zon tot Zeehond. Wie eet wat op het wad? De energie van de zon zorgt voor groei en bloei van algen, de schelp- en andere dieren eten de algen, die worden weer…

The NIOZ has been awarded €2,891,000 from the NWO-I Strategic Innovation Fund 2025. This funding is a significant step forward in the project "Transitions in Oceanographic Research: A New Ship and Autonomous Vessel Development", which aims to…

A consortium led by Prof. Dr. Corina Brussaard of NIOZ has been awarded a three-million-euro grant to study the impact of viruses on phytoplankton—tiny ocean plants. Understanding these interactions is critical, as climate change is already…

The North Atlantic’s overturning regulates Europe’s climate by transporting warm waters northward and cold waters southward. One of the currents in this overturning is the Irminger Current, located in the Irminger Sea, southeast of Greenland. Nora…

PhD student Bass Dye, studied temperature preferences of fish, as part of the Waddentools Swimway Wadden Sea project. With these data he created a model to predict how fish will respond to future changes caused by climate change.

Gas extraction under Ameland has ecological impact. This is the conclusion of researchers Martijn van de Pol (James Cook University) and Allert Bijleveld (NIOZ) together with several colleagues in an article in the journal De Levende Natuur. For…