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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…

New results from the Wadden Mosaic research programme show that only 10 per cent of the underwater nature in the Wadden Sea is effectively protected. Moreover, protective measures, such as the designation of protected areas, still often appear to…

The Dutch coast serves as a key transit zone for suspended sediment—a transit zone for sediment moving from the Strait of Dover to the Wadden Sea. This sediment supports the Wadden Sea ecosystem by creating nutrient-rich soils and maintaining…

They produce half of all the oxygen in the oceans and the atmosphere, they eat a lot of greenhouse gases, but under oxygen-free conditions, they also produce methane and other greenhouse gases. In other words, bacteria and other marine microbes are a…

A consortium of Dutch scientists start a five-year research project on the effects of offshore wind farms on North Sea ecology and economic activities. NWO awarded the NO REGRETS project 6.7 million euros. The program is coordinated by Myron Peck of…

The RV Anna Weber-van Bosse has been launched in Spain. In a year's time, the new flagship of the Dutch research fleet will be ready for use. Gert-Jan Reichart, responsible for the scientific side of the project, calls on Dutch (marine) scientists to…