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The NWO Domain Board Science has approved the grant applications of NIOZ scientists Femke the Jong, Stefan Schouten and Peter Kraal in the Open Competition Domain Science-M program. M-grants are intended for innovative, high-quality, fundamental…

When a team of scientists on board the research vessel RV Pelagia on the North Sea ran into a violent storm, they feared that all their equipment was lost in the sea and a year of work had been in vain. But the opposite turned out to be true: after…

Unidentified Living Organisms between manganese nodules 'Dust clouds' at the bottom of the deep sea, that will be created by deep-sea mining activities, descend at a short distance for the biggest part. That is shown by PhD research of NIOZ marine…

The Netherlands and Germany are jointly investing €15 million in research projects aimed at effective protection and management of the Wadden Sea. NIOZ researchers are involved in 3 of the 5 awarded projects, in which they will work, among other…

A parasite that not only feeds of its host, but also makes the host change its own metabolism and thus biology. NIOZ microbiologists Su Ding and Joshua Hamm, Nicole Bale, Jaap Sinninghe Damsté and Anja Spang have shown this for the very first time in…

Due to the changing climate, young herring arrive in the Wadden Sea earlier and earlier in spring. That is shown in a new publication by NIOZ ecologists Mark Rademaker, Myron Peck and Anieke van Leeuwen, in this month's journal Global Change Biology.…

A biodegradable stocking, containing a core of coconut rope and empty cockle shells; that appears to be a good recipe for catching mussel larvae and letting them grow into small mussels. The PhD-thesis of Lisanne van den Bogaart, a marine biologist…

To preserve the important intertidal areas and salt marshes off our coasts for the future, we need more turbid water. That is one of the striking conclusions from a new study conducted by a Dutch-Chinese team of researchers and published today in…

Professor dr. Linda Amaral-Zettler, Research Leader at NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research and the Chair in Marine Microbiology at the University of Amsterdam has been awarded a prestigious Advanced ERC-grant by the European Commission…