2022 in pictures
A selection of pictures taken by NIOZ employees gives an impression of their work in 2022
Alena di Primio
Lightmicroscopy of Woeseia oceani XK5 pure culture in chemically defined medium, 100-fold magnification. Early morning walk to NIOZ (below).
Jan van Gils
End of the day on the mudflats of Mauritania, PhD candidates Tim Oortwijn and Marie De Wilde walk back after looking for recently tagged birds.
Virginia Sanchez Barranco
Taking water samples near Curacao to study the water column biogeochemistry and setting up sediment traps to look at suspended matter distribution, as part of the Sealink project.
Sabine Gollner
Deep sea mining research with RV Sonne to the Clarion Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean.
Evy Gobbens
11 weeks on the uninhabited island of Griend to conduct WATLAS research on the behavior of dunlins.
Thomas Lameris
Releasing red knots with transmitters in April 2022. Photos: Rob Buiter
Jeemijn Scheen
On the dike of Kruiningen at high tide. You can well see how much higher the water is than the land.
Dennis Mosk
SIBES sampling in the oyster bed on the ‘Groote plaat’.
Sjoerd Groeskamp
On deck during the MIXATION cruise. Styrofoam cups completely shrunk from the pressure in the deep sea.
Klaas Timmermans
One of many beautiful sunrises in Zeeland.
Aimée Slangen
EDS department outing to the drowned village of Tolseinde, in the Oosterschelde estuary.
Tjitske Kooistra
A well-deserved break during the TRAILS-campaign aboard RV Navicula. Anna-Maartje de Boer taking a sediment sample for luminescence from a boxcore.
Edwin Keijzer
Probably the last dock visit of RV Navicula. Spotted in Den Helder when entering Damen's dry dock.
Victoria Mason
Scouting field locations for wave breaker structures (top) and MoBiWAVE field flume in action in the Eastern Scheldt.
Bas Denissen
Test setup for a turbidity+chlorophyll+kinin sensor.
Clea van de Ven
Using simple tools for complex questions: fake plants show how shoot organisation influences water flow and erosion around the ‘shoots’ (top). Young plants establish on the mudflat with help from biodegradable stabilising structures.
Daniël Benjamin Blok
Monitoring sediment height and physical parameters in the Netherlands Western Scheldt on the Plaat van Ossenisse (top) and preparing single beam (bottom height) measurements above the tidal flat in Perkpolder, Zeeland after depoldering.
Miriam Sterl
On the MIXATION expedition we deployed moorings to calibrate new methods that help us provide better estimates of ocean water mixing which is an important component in climate models.
Dennis Mosk
Replacing the top light in the mast of sailing vessel Antonia during SIBES, with the TX96 along as a supply ship. Building the NIOZ fyke on the Stuifdijk after the summer break (below).
Jaco de Smit
Jaco in action with a field flume. This is a test rig in which a piece of seabed is subjected to a fixed amount of current or waves. Photos: Eduardo Infantes
Jan van Gils
Tim Oortwijn releasing a freshly color-banded red knot in Banc d’Arguin, Mauritania (top) and base camp site in western Alaska, studying the reproductive ecology of red knots in the context of rapid Arctic warming.
Jena Edwards
Baby tope shark captured near Ameland. PhD research for the SWIMWAY project
Tom Versluijs
While doing fieldwork in Greenland, a curious Arctic fox approached during a lunchbreak and started biting on the equipment.
Jeroen Hoekendijk
Harbour seal with transmitter on Texel (top), dunlin and flight of Eurasian oystercatchers on Griend and beautiful view of Svalbard (below).
Hailley Danielson-Owczynsky
Still smiling during the RV Navicula safety training course.
Peter Kraal
Busy days sampling and filtering aboard RV Pelagia during the I-NANO cruise during which we targeted nanomaterials from deep-sea hydrothermal vents.
Pieter Hovenkamp
ISIIS image includes amongst others a medusa of a hydrozoa and also lots of noctiluca. Taken during the ReViFES cruise on RV Pelagia on the North Sea.
Suzanne Thoen
A mussel boat sailing along the quay of the NIOZ in Yerseke.
Henk de Haas
During the Pelagia INDEX charter, the pilot disembarks in the port of Port Louis (Mauritius).
Swan Sow
Fieldwork on the Antarctic field trip at the Rothera Research Station/Dirck Gerritsz lab. Checking on microbial incubation experiment in Lab Hope. And returning from sampling campaigns at sunset (below).