2025 in pictures

A selection of pictures taken by NIOZ employees gives an impression of their work in 2025.

4 people in a rubber boat taking a SIBES sample at Wadden Sea
Three people processing samples after a SIBES sampling session on board of a research vessel in the Wadden Sea

Hailley Danielson-Owczynsky

Sampling and processing SIBES sampling in the Wadden Sea. Team work makes the dream work.

Research vessel Anna Weber van-Bosse on the shipyard in Vigo
Photo of cables of the future messroom of the research vessel Anna Weber van-Bosse in Vigo

Henk de Haas

At the shipyard in Vigo, with RV Anna Weber-van Bosse under construction.

Photo of Ian Doornhof looking for mussels during the fieldwork of the Parasite-group at Paal 9 in 2025 November

Zsuzsanna Toth

Looking for mussels during fieldwork of the Parasite-group. Paal 9 beach (Texel) in November.

Photo of people in front of a reserach vessel, WiWocruise
Drone shot of research vessel Wim Wolff

Aimee Slangen

During ‘Wim Wolff Water Week’, students are introduced to marine research. An activity of the Delta Climate Centre. (Photos partly by Jordan Blok)

Photo of people on board of a reserach vessel, WiWocruise
Photo of rainbow with clouds and sand, Hors

Anne Vorenkamp

Stormy weather on the Hors (Texel). And a feather of a bar-tailed godwit, captured and tagged on Griend.

Photo of hand holding a white feather with a small brown heart shape on it
Photo taken on board of a ship during a research cruise on the north sea

Rob de Beer

Wind farm during a research cruise at sunset on the North Sea.

juvenile red mullet caught in the fyke
People in a reseaech lab looking at a North Sea crab that has been caught in the fyke

Dennis Mosk

Juvenile red mullet in fyke, North Sea crab, placing fyke poles, box-coring for SUBES on the RV Wim Wolff.

Photo of several people in water placing fyke poles
Boxcoring for SUBES on the research vessel Wim Wolff

Hanna Stegeman

A bountiful catch: zooplankton sampling on the North Sea with a WP2 plankton net.

zooplankton sampling on the North Sea with a WP2 plankton net
Photo of a sampling device

Dick van Oevelen

Sampling during the MONS project with Rijkswaterstaat. (Photos by Max van Hanegem)

Photo of people on board of a research vessel taking a sample out of the sea
Photo of mountains of Cape Verde in the mist
Two people in the control cabin of a research ship looking through binoculars

Jan-Berend Stuut

Cape Verde, searching for dust buoys, deploying drifting traps, dusty harvest.

Two men on board of a research vessel with 4 drifting traps
12 samples of dust in round glass trays

Max Burgoon

A reef fragment built by honeycomb worms (Sabellaria alveolata) in the Bay of Mont St Michel, France.

A reef fragment built by honeycomb wombs at the bay of Mont St Michel in France
Photo in research lab with two people: herring gonad staging

Bas de Wit

The student becomes the master. Intern Dennis showing senior scientist Anieke the finer elements of herring gonad staging.

misty sunrise on Griend

Isla Botting

Misty sunrise on Griend. Four colour marked red knots are released on Griend.

evening release of four colour marked red knots, Griend

Judith van Bleijswijk

The Molecular Ecology Laboratory is used by people from all four NIOZ scientific departments.

Group of scientists in the Molecular Ecology Laboratory at NIOZ
Cost line with sand and grey sky

Jim van Belzen

Salt marses at the Zwin (Zeeland). Xiriton blocks are tested for suitability as a substrate for shell banks or salt marsh restoration. Jelly fish in Veerse Meer.

3 Xiriton blocks in the sand
Multiple cages on the coast line
Multiple jellyfish in water
Picture of the sea, taken onboard of a research vessel

Kelly Kat

Sunset and dolphins during a sea trial of the RV Anna Weber-van Bosse. Last cruise on the RV Pelagia.

Dolphins swimming in front of a research vessel
Photo of crew in front of research vessel Pelagia
Foto in een lab-setting: NOS verslaggever interviewt onderzoeker Rosalinde van Ooijen over nieuwe soort pacifische zeepok in Waddenzee

Rianne Lindhout

NOS reporter interviews Rosalinde van Ooijen about new species of Pacific barnacle in the Wadden Sea.

Portrait Rosalinde van Ooijen

Lorendz Boom

Site team at Astilleros Armon shipyard in Vigo, during the construction of RV Anna Weber-van Bosse.

Photo of 6 people at the shipyard at Armon
Group of people on deck of a research vessel

Lara Disselhoff

With PhD students on Research Vessel Zirfaea of Rijkswaterstaat, taking samples for the MONS project.

Portrait of Lara Disselhof
Close-up photo of hands with a research instrument
Photo of people on a research ship with a coring instrument
Assemblage Power Controller for Watlas

Remko de Haan

Assembly of the power controller for the Watlas project.

MaMa Course

Setting out the instruments on RV Adriaen Coenen during the Marine Masters Summer Course (MaMa).

MaMa cursus: 3 people setting out instruments on the backside of a ship
A Small-spotted catshark caught in NIOZ-fyke being measured before release

Robert Twijnstra

A small spotted catshark caught in the fyke (and being released). Ulva sampling with students near the Cocksdorp (Texel).

baskets with Ulva from sampling with the students of the 'Parasite Group' near the Cocksdorp
Nets for catching shorebirds to determine migratory departure weights. Balgzand, early morning

Roeland Bom

Nets for catching shorebirds to determine migratory departure weights. Balgzand, early morning. Roeland Bom and Theunis Piersma discussing science while preparing dinner (Banc d’Arguin, Mauritania).

Photo of two persons (Roeland Bom and Theunis Piersma) sitting behind a table in front of a light yellow wall, discussing science while preparing dinner in Banc d’Arguin, Mauritania
Two people mudwalking

Victoria Mason

A muddy walk to take sediment cores in the Dutch Wadden Sea. Taking sunset dGPS measurements at Wierum.

Taking sunset dGPS measurements at Wierum, Dutch Wadden Sea, March 2025