Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

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Habitat conditions

The North Sea ecosystem is determined by hydrography: tides, currents, temperature, salinity, stratification; geomorphology: sediment composition, bed forms; and chemistry: nutrients, carbon, pollutants. Data gathering, analysis and modelling of these processes are a necessary and integral part of all studies carried out in the North Sea.

Nanoplastics pollution

Nanoplastics pollution

UU-NIOZ project | Overlooked but high impact material. The nanoscale of the oceans and North sea plastic pollution is a truly new discovery.

SANDBOX

NWO project | Shallow coastal seas are subject to an increasing pressure by offshore operations, like sand mining and the construction and operation of...

Monitoring MSC Zoe plastics

Monitoring MSC Zoe plastics

Project | Research to be carried out into the possible consequences of the container disaster on the ecosystem of the North Sea.

Methaan dynamics

Methaan dynamics

Experimental | Methane is the third most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. We analyse methane dynamics in sediments and water column.

Sea-level relationships

Sea-level relationships

UU-NIOZ project | The long-term relationship between sea-level change and sedimentation in the North Sea. Analyzing the evolution of the Dutch coast.

DISCLOSE

Project | Distribution, structure and functioning of low-resilience benthic communities and habitats of the Dutch North Sea.