2024 in pictures

A selection of pictures taken by NIOZ employees gives an impression of their work in 2024.

Photo of Rozemijn van Dam and Myrthe Bergsma standing on deck of a small boat on their way to build up the fykes in the Wadden Sea

Dennis Mosk

Buiding up the fykes in the spring (up). In a SIBES RIB on our way to RV Wim Wolff (video left). Analyzing fish stomach content (below).

Photo of a fish stomach content containing many brittlestars

Photo of person walking in Wadden Sea with low tide and carrying equipment

Johannes Krietsch

WATLAS fieldwork around Griend in August 2024.

Photo of two persons standing in Wadden Sea with low tide setting up equipment

Oscar Franken

Sunset on the mudflats during Waddenmozaiek research (picture by Henrike Wijnsma).

Marck Smit

RV Pelagia leaving for 'Methane emission expedition #3', with scientists Ilona Velzenboer and Geert de Bruin.

Photo of two researchers, one wearing a helmet

Photo of two persons looking into a bassin filled with water while testing glider ballasting

Photo of underwater gliders on a carrying tray in a meadow

Charles von der Meden

Toon Koopman and Margaux Brandon prepare the new gliders in a NIOZ test tank and outside to allow satellite communications.

Roos Kentie

Lesser black-backed gull overlooking the industrial harbour. Lesser black-backed gull named KAFY (inscription on green leg ring) defending his nest.

Photo of a sitting seagull with cranes od a sea port in the background

Photo of a flying seagull with grey sky in the background

Evy Gobbens

Children's workshop in the library on Texel during autumn holidays.

Photo of a young boy looking through a microscope

Photo of a young girl holding a folded paper beak close to the nose

Photo of an experimental setting with various containers and water in a lab

Photo of a row of cubical scientific instruments

Bas Denissen

Methane funnel made by the department of National Marine Facilities (NMF) at the NIOZ test basin.

A new batch of receivers for the WATLAS bird tracking project.

Photo of a ship with a harbour in the background

Henk de Haas

The pilot boat Kestrel sailing parallel to RV Pelagia in Port Louis (Mauritius) at the start of the INDEX 2024 cruise.

Three persons behing multiple screens in control room ROV

Hans van Haren

Control room of the Irish Marine Institute ROV. The center screen shows the small ring at the bottom of a vertical line to be cut.

Two women slicing sediment cores in the laboratory on board of a research vessel on the 2nd North-Sea Atlantic Exchange expedition

Cecile Hilgen

Sediment cores are sliced on board during the second NoSE expedition.

Several people on deck of a research vessel with a piston core that is cut into 1 m sections on the 2nd North-Sea Atlantic Exchange expedition

Sabine Gollner

Video impression of the SubLife Expedition and the discoveries of life in cave systems under hydrothermal vents. The paper was published in 2024.

Geert de Bruin

Measuring methane emissions during the Methane III expedition with RV Pelagia on the North Sea.

Photo of two scientists on deck of a research vessel

Photo of a chase drifter deployed in a Sargassum patch next to a MetOcean Drifter with the RV Pelagia in the background

Erik Zettler

Employing drifters near a large sargassum patch in the Atlantic Ocean (picture by Darshika Manral) and drone image of RV Pelagia during the 'Weeds of Change' expedition.

The RV Pelagia alongside one of largest Sargassum patches encountered on our voyage that extended kilometers in either direction, beyond the safe traveling distance of the drone

Photo of research vessel called Wim Wolff during the christening

Henriette de Waal

Successful christening of RV Wim Wolff; it is a relief when the champagne bottle actually breaks (picture by Evalien Weterings).

Klaas Timmermans

‘Expedition Schelpwier’ took place in Yerseke, an event for everyone who produces or processes seaweed and shellfish with chef Pierre Wind, among others (pictures by Marcel Vervuurt).

Photo of RV Pelagia with rubber speed boat in front

Rene Kramer

Drone pictures during the SEALINK expedition along the coast of Bonaire.