2023 in pictures
A selection of pictures taken by NIOZ employees gives an impression of their work in 2023.
Bastiaan van Gemert
The mudflats at Texel during low tide with a sanderling and a ruddy turnstone
Dennis Mosk
Sunrise on the Wadden Sea viewed from the RV Navicula and constructing and dismantling the research fyke on the Stuifdijk
Evy Gobbens
Setting off at dawn to sample shrimp on the mudflats of Griend and a red knot equipped with a lightweight WATLAS tag and color rings flies off to freedom
Floris van Rees
Impressions of fieldwork on Rottumerplaat were we measured vegetation traits and landscape properties for the Avian Nutrient Pump project
Henk Brinkhuis
Discovery of a new fossil genus and species of dinoflagellate from the early Eocene, during the International Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 302
Henk de Haas
The cable spaghetti of temporarily installed equipment as a symbol of the difficulty solving technical problems during a cruise
Iakovos Petrou
RV Pelagia in the NIOZ harbor. View from the mudflat tower early November
Jan van Gils
In search for GPS-tagged red knots in Banc d’Arguin, Mauritania. Release of a red knot (Calidris canutus canutus) carrying a novel GPS tag in Mauritania. Studying the trophic mismatch in red knots on the Arctic tundra near Nome, Alaska
Jena Edwards
Crew of the Rijkswaterstaat vessel Waddenstroom work to deploy fish tracking equipment on a navigational buoy near the north-end of Texel – a starfish hitchhiker was spotted on the underside
Jeemijn Scheen
A normal working day in the life of an ocean modeller. Although boring for the body, computer work is exciting for the mind.
Jim van Belzen
Fast flume in action and fieldwork near Rattekaai in Zeeland to measure height for setting up a trial around erosion inhibitors
Jeroen Hoekendijk
Glaciers and coastline during a research expedition in Svalbard where high resolution drone images of different species of seals were made. These are compared with satellite images, so algorithms can be developed to automate the detection of seals
Lorendz Boom
Large piles of steel plates to be transformed into the Anna Weber-van Bosse. Site team visiting the steel cutting facility in Jarrio, Spain
Mei Nelissen
Sunset from the Joides Resolution during IODP Expedition 400 to the Baffin Bay
Mo Verhoeven
Attack of a parent goose during a round of nest checks on Svalbard. Ringing goslings during Arctic fieldwork on Svalbard
Pieter Hovenkamp
Deployment of plankton imaging instruments in south-west Greenland on the RV Belgica. Image of ‘ISIIS’ (In Situ Ichtyoplankton Imaging System) during the ActNow cruise on RV Pelagia at the Doggerbank
Robert Twijnstra
Sailing out on the Vlet to the NIOZ fyke at the Stuifdijk. Winter at the NIOZ Seaweedcentre starting new experiments and having some beautiful Saccharina latissima with sorus
Rosemarie Kentie
On our way to Forteiland, IJmuiden, to capture and GPS-tag Lesser Black-backed Gulls Credits: Threes Anna
Stefan Mortelmans
Vegetation survey of water buffalo grazing in Baalhoek, Zeeland
Tjitske Kooistra
A gravity corer is deployed from R.V. Navicula in the Wadden Sea near Ameland, during the TRAILS cruise in August. A visit from the RV Adriaen Coenen gave this unique view from the outside
Victoria Mason
Waders drying off in the sun. A trail of footprints in the mud at Perkpolder. Installing wave sensors on a Wadden Sea mudflat Credits: Pim Willemsen
Zeynep Erdem
On board the RV Navicula together with the team on the way back to Texel at the end of TRAILS'23 cruise in August 2023 led by Tjitske Kooistra