Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

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Climate change & Threats

The effects of Climate change such as sea level rise and sea surface temperature has enormous impact on the Caribbean biodiversity (coral bleaching, sea turtles nests, and unprecedented accumulations of microalgea stranding on beaches) and the Caribbean community like coastal erosion, and economic effects.

Harmful Algal Blooms

Harmful Algal Blooms

UU-NIOZ project | This project applies a wide array of tools (from genomic to paleoecology) to provide the missing long-term perspective to Florida HABs.

Turning the tide

Turning the tide

UU-NIOZ project | Employing an integrative model combining bottom up and top down controls on the microbial community to understand...

Nature based flood defence

Nature based flood defence

Study | Coastlines are sensitive to enhanced erosion by sea level rise and increasingly strong wind and storm conditions.

Metagenomics of Sargassum

Metagenomics of Sargassum

Research |The holopelagic species of Sargassum have begun forming unprecedented accumulations and subsequent strandings on several islands.

Ecosystem engineers

Ecosystem engineers

Study | Tropical regions harbor unique ecosystems hosting a great biodiversity in essence shaped by a number of foundation ecosystem engineers.

SCENES

Project | Local sea level trends are most important for shallow ecosystems because they have to keep up with the large relative sea-level change.