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5 April 2012

ZKO Symposium 2012

ZKO Symposium for the ZKO community on 7 and 8 november 2012.
16 February 2012

13th International Scientific Wadden Sea Symposium on 21 – 23 November 2012

19 October 2011

ZKO Data Portal now online!

27 May 2010

Five ZKO projects receive extra sailing days

The goal of the subsidy round of the Sea and Coastal Research programme was to provide extra sailing days for ongoing research projects that were running short. NIOZ made 70 sailing days available for this subsidy round. In total, nine proposals were submitted. These were chosen by the assessment committee on the basis of scientific quality, the urgency of need for the extra sailing days, and the added value that would be provided by the extra sailing days. NIOZ subsequently decided on five projects to award the extra sailing days.
3 September 2009

3-4 September 2009: Kick-off Symposium ZKO

Officiële start van ZKO deelprogramma met symposium.
4 August 2009

The ocean of tomorrow: €34 million dedicated to multidisciplinary research projects to reconcile maritime activities with the preservation of seas and oceans

10 April 2007

Prepare CO2 capture and storage now for greater environmental benefit later

CO2 capture and storage can make a major contribution to CO2 reduction in the Netherlands. By the mid-21st century 80 to 110 million tonnes of CO2 per year could be avoided in the sectors energy, industry and transport. This is half of the current CO2 emission. Moreover, this can be realised against acceptable costs concludes Dutch researcher Kay Damen.
14 November 2006

Protection of Dutch Wadden Sea is wanting

Although the Wadden Sea is a fully protected nature reserve, the area still suffers from the consequences of large-scale mechanical shellfishing. This has led to a decline in the quantity and quality of shellfish and with cascading effects on the shellfish-eating migrant birds that depend on the Wadden Sea. Shelldredging for cockles in the western Dutch Wadden Sea appears responsible for the decline in the European wintering numbers of red knots. Scientists from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and the University of Groningen concluded that after in-depth comparisons between dredged and undredged areas of mudflat and the following of the fates of individually marked shorebirds. Their findings will be published this week in PLoS Biology.
31 October 2006

Vladimir Vernadsky Medal 2007 to Jaap Sinninghe Damsté

The section Biogeosciences of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) has awarded the prestigious Vernadsky Medal 2007 to Jaap Sinninghe Damsté. This scientist of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research NIOZ receives the medal for the extraordinary quality of his scientific work in the field of biogeochemistry. The Vernadsky Medal is the second international award for Sinninghe Damsté. Last year he already received the Treibs Medal in organic geochemistry from the American Geochemical Society.
22 September 2006

Carlo Heip new NIOZ director