News & Calendar Wageningen Marine Research
The research areas of Wageningen Marine Research include ecology, environmental conservation and protection, fisheries, aquaculture, maritime technology, delta technology, management of coastal zones and marine policy. Updates from the research not only appear as news articles, but are also shared at meetings, via our e-newsletter or via social media.
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Former Wageningen Marine Research employee and ice net SUIT travel to Alaska
- Last November, former Wageningen Marine Research employee Hauke Flores joined an expedition on board the research vessel Sikuliaq, together with an... -
New butterfly census for the Dutch Caribbean Windward Islands
- The results of a four-year study, cataloging the butterfly species of St. Eustatius over the winter months of 2009-2012, have been published. This... -
Global overview of plastic ingestion by marine wildlife
- Species of all sizes and habitats have been found with plastic in their stomachs. Also entanglement in ropes and other plastic objects is regularly... -
Catalogue launched for designing nature-inclusive offshore wind farms
- To support wind farm permit holders to design their wind farms in a nature-inclusive way, a catalogue of nature-inclusive design options has been... -
Delays in exchange of researchers MOSAiC expedition
- While we are dealing with the bizarre situation at the home front, the research vessel Polarstern is still drifting close to the North Pole in the... -
How does the sea fit into the circular bio-economy?
- Merely transitioning to circular farming systems is not sufficient for the sustainable production of enough food for the global population. We must... -
Marine expedition photos in WUR Image Collections
- Oscar Bos, marine ecologist, added 500 photos of marine research in the North Sea to the WUR Image Collections. Most of the photos, were taken in 2019... -
Dutch Wadden society looks back at the ZOE container incident
- Also the Dutch Wadden Sea Society commemorates the first anniversary of the disaster with the containervessel MSC ZOE. The firs issue of the 2020... -
Seaweed as a sustainable food source
- More food is needed to feed the increasing world population. But the availability of arable land and water is decreasing. This is why Wageningen and... -
The MOSAiC expedition continues leg 2: Hardships and challenges in the Arctic winter
- The first leg of the MOSAiC expedition was completed in the middle of December 2019. Crew members and scientist of the second leg are on board now and...