WSRC - Facilities

RV Navicula is 24 meters long and is especially designed for research in the Wadden Sea. The ship provides a dry and a wet lab... read more

RV Stern is the smallest of our vessels, equipped for day trips and is mainly used for transporting people and goods to and from the different... read more

Wadden pontoon Richel is used mainly for bird research and and well suited for bird watching and accommodates up to four... read more

Shorebird experiment facility is an intertidal, climatized indoor arena for testing field-generated hypotheses. Inside the facility... read more

The monitoring platform extends 45 m into the Marsdiep, the westernmost tidal inlet of the Wadden Sea. The pier is equipped with automated sensors... read more

Since 1959 fish monitoring has been conducted with a fyke in the Marsdiep at the head of Texel. Caught fish are identified and measured... read more

NIOZ offers a suite of state-of-the-art facilities and high quality operational procedures for the analyses of various biological and non-biological... read more

NIOZ provides a number of thermo-controlled laboratories for experimental studies and cultivation. Most laboratories have access to... read more

Bivalve shellfish filter water to obtain food and oxygen by keeping their valves open and generate a water current over their gills. The response... read more

The automated weighing machine has the capacity to weight 9000 crucibles a day, with a precision of a tenth of a milligram. It plays a pivotal... read more