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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…
Wednesday 05 March 2025
Alfred Treibs Award for Ellen Hopmans
Ellen Hopmans, head of Analytical Laboratory of the MMB department at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, will receive the 2025 the Alfred Treibs Award. Presented by the Geochemical Society, the award is given for major achievements,…
Wednesday 26 February 2025
Investigating paleotemperature proxies based on archaeal hydroxylated tetraether lipids
Understanding past sea surface temperatures (SSTs) is crucial for reconstructing Earth's climate history. Devika Varma has focused her PhD research project on specific biomolecules produced by archaea, called OH-isoGDGTs,as SST proxies. By evaluating…
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…
