News
Wednesday 26 March 2025
NIOZ annual report 2024
NIOZ director Han Dolman: "While tools and technology are vital, our most important resource remains our staff. In 2024, we made significant strides in strengthening our talent management systems, providing training in leadership and cultural…
Monday 24 March 2025
New insights into the ecological value of the Wadden Sea
For five years, more than 20 researchers acquired new ecological knowledge about the subtidal nature of the Wadden Sea, an often understudied but important part of this ecosystem. The projects Wadden Mosaic (Waddenmozaïek )and Swimway Wadden Sea…
Monday 24 March 2025
Tagged fish reveal their lives in and outside the Wadden Sea
Large fish species that live in the Wadden Sea in summer turn out to make quite a journey in winter. PhD student Jena Edwards discovered this by giving the fish a transmitter. She also saw how tagged animals use very specific areas of the Wadden Sea,…
Thursday 20 March 2025
Sea level rise after the last ice age: more knowledge
New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, about 11,700 years ago. This information is of great importance to understand the impact global warming has had on the ice…
Wednesday 19 March 2025
Asian clam finds its way to the Wadden Sea
‘T HORNTJE, MARCH 19TH, 2025 – The Asian clam has found its way to the Dutch Wadden Sea. This is shown by field researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), during their yearly ecological survey ‘SIBES’ (the Synoptic Intertidal…
Tuesday 18 March 2025
A promising approach to advance proxy-based pCO2 reconstructions.
Carbon continuously moves between the atmosphere, oceans, land, and Earth's crust through natural processes such as erosion and plant growth. These shifts influence atmospheric CO₂ levels over time, making it crucial to study past changes in marine…
Monday 17 March 2025
Water at war: the long-term environmental consequences of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine
Water is misused as a weapon when infrastructure and water resources are deliberately destroyed in armed conflicts. Water resources and infrastructure are also affected by the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine: In June 2023, the Kakhovka dam, which…
Tuesday 11 March 2025
Announcement about the Marine Microbial Chemical Communication Conference
From 17-20 March NIOZ is hosting an international symposium on Marine Microbial Chemical Communication. This is an international symposium with scientists visiting from all over the world. The Weizmann Institute of Science of Israel is one of the…
Monday 10 March 2025
Climate affects microbial life around Antarctica
Bacteria and other single-celled microorganisms in the seas around Antarctica are strongly influenced by water temperature and the amount of sea ice. This is shown by coordinated measurements taken off the coast of the west Antarctic Peninsula. "Even…
Friday 07 March 2025
SUBES research programme investigates the species composition of the subtidal Wadden Sea
NIOZ will conduct research on behalf of Rijkswaterstaat into the soil inhabiting animals and soil composition in the deeper parts of the Dutch Wadden Sea: the areas that are permanently under water. The research consists of collecting and processing…
