CONTENTS
Introduction
The NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research as the national oceanographic institute.
NIOZ is part of the institutes organisation of NWO (Dutch Research Council)
Strategy & Research
Next steps towards the coupled research and strategic goals of the NIOZ.
Science Plan
Critical outstanding issues concerning Our Ocean, Our Coast and Our Future as the research rationale and inspiration for future NIOZ marine science.
Our vast ocean
The ocean environment is changing rapidly as a result of external pressures, which will affect the diverse but little characterized organisms playing an important role in marine food chains and the ocean’s carbon cycle.
Our fragile coast
Coastal zones face questions regarding climate and anthropogenic influences, sea level rise and resilience to these changes, and how these changes impact the humans inhabiting these areas both in the Netherlands, in other parts of the Kingdom, and globally.
Our marine future
To ensure optimal and sustainable future use and management of marine ecosystems, the insights obtained in the functioning of marine systems must be translated into predictions, approaches, scenarios and methods that can help managers and policy makers.
