NIOZ at sea
A few highlights of the fleet renewal in 2024. You can follow the progress of the fleet renewal by subscribing to the digital newsletter and the website. Below you will find an overview of the science cruises in 2024.
RV ANNA WEBER-VAN BOSSE
Launch and construction halfway through
An important milestone: on 30 October 2024 the RV Anna Weber-van Bosse has been launched at Astilleros Armon in Vigo, Spain. At the time of the launch the construction of the ship was about halfway through. During the first year of construction, the almost 80 metre-long hull was built in the hall at Armon Shipyards to roughly eight storeys, but the ship will be even higher. The ship did not fit in the assembly hall of the shipyard in its entirety, which is why, among other things, the bridge has been built on top of the hull outside the hall. Delivery is scheduled for late 2025. Read more about the construction of this ship >
RV WIM WOLFF
Christening in the harbour of Texel
On 15 February 2024, the RV Wim Wolff was christened in the harbor of NIOZ on Texel during a festive afternoon. Because the christening of a ship is traditionally performed by a woman, and because namesake Wim Wolff had two sons, the christening was performed by Wim's five-year-old granddaughter Charly Wolff, assisted by Caroline Visser, board member of NWO, the Dutch Research Council. Youthful ‘christening lady’ Charly also symbolizes the future of the ship and the coastal research. RV Wim Wolff, like the RV Navicula, is expected to last four decades. Read more about research vessel Wim Wolff >
SCIENCE CRUISES PELAGIA 2024
Location 1: 04-01 until 23-01 Willemstad – Willemstad (Lennart de Nooijer /Furu Mienis, NIOZ, SEALINK) Location 2: 25-01 until 01-02 Willemstad – Saint George (Sjoerd Groeskamp, NIOZ, Mixation-I)
Location 3: 25-03 until 03-04 Toulon – Toulon (Hans van Haren, NIOZ, Large ring-mooring recovery) Location 4: 15-04 until 22-04 Texel – Texel (Dick van Oevelen/Karline Soetaert, SMILE (UU-NIOZ), BEYOND (UU-NIOZ), OR ELSE (NWO) and Footprint - spring cruise (NWO)
Location 5: 25-04 until 18-05 Texel – Texel (Furu Mienis/Peter Kraal, NIOZ, NoSE-North Sea Atlantic Exchange) Location 6: 13-06 until 12-07 Point-a-Pitre – Mindelo (Linda Amaral-Zettler/Erik Zettler, NIOZ, Weeds of Change Sargassum Cruise)
Location 7: 23-07 until 30-07 Ponta Delgada – Ponta Delgada (Carsten Skaarup/Martin Laungaard, Survey Group Denmark, SEAPACT) Location 8: 15-08 until 01-09 Texel – Texel (Helge Niemann/Geert de Bruin, NIOZ, Methane emission in the North Sea)
Location 9: 29-10 until 17-11 Port Louis – Port Louis (Ralf Freitag/Udo Barckhausen Bundesdienst fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, INDEX2024 - 1) Location 10: 22-11 until 20-12 Port Louis – Port Louis (Ralf Freitag/Hendrik Müller, Bundesdienst fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, INDEX2024 - 2)
SCIENCE CRUISES WIM WOLFF 2024
Location 1: WATLAS/Shorebirds (Allert Bijleveld, NIOZ), 4 cruises Location 2: SIBES (Allert Bijleveld, NIOZ), 3 cruises
Location 3: MARIX24 (Caroline Slomp, Radboud University), 1 cruise Location 4: MaMa course (NIOZ), 1 week
Location 5: The carbon and biodiversity value of offshore seaweed farming at NSF1 (Anna Queiros, Plymouth Marine Laboratory), 1 cruise Location 6: Ameland suppletion box core (Lisa van Son, Eurofins), 1 cruise
Location 7: North Sea Posthole Seismometer Deployment (Islam Abdelaziz, University of Twente), 1 cruise
SCIENCE CRUISES NAVICULA 2024
Location 1: WATLAS/Shorebirds (Allert Bijleveld, NIOZ), 1 cruise
Location 2: SIBES (Allert Bijleveld, NIOZ), 1 cruise
Location 3: MARIX24 (Caroline Slomp, Radboud University), 1 cruise