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News from the Curacao expedition
- A team of MAE students led by Erik Wurz has travelled to Curacao to do some fieldwork again. Read the blog post of student Pauline below to get... -
Gibbs Kuguru and Ecomare x-rays a deformed spotted ray
- Fishermen caught the weird-looking spotted ray (Raja montagui) in the North Sea. Instead of the usual triangular shape, it had two points at either... -
Prof. Tinka Murk on the Mauritius oil spill in a special theme of Ecotoxicology magazine
- The cargo ship MV Wakashio ran aground near Mauritius on July 5th 2020. At least a thousand tons of oil and diesel leaked from the ship over the coral... -
Prof. Tinka Murk writes chapter on the North Sea in book on circular food production
- During the Dutch Food Week a book was presented entitled '10 miljard monden' or '10 billion mouths' in English. Eighty scientists from Wageningen... -
Coral reefs in trouble worldwide
- Sadly, it comes to no surprise for most of us that coral reefs world wide are not doing well. Dr. Ronald Osinga spoke with Nu.nl, a Dutch news... -
Alwin Hylkema on the RAAK PRO Diadema project to restore sea urchin populations in the Dutch Caribbean
- Nature Today published an article featuring the RAAK PRO Diadema project, a project of multiple collaborators including University of Applied Sciences... -
Project of Dr. Lisa Becking in the spotlight: Tourism and nature conservation in tropical areas
- The project of Dr. Lisa Becking and colleagues entitled Resilience of the Richest Reefs received special attention last weekend both from the WUR and... -
MAE 5 year anniversary!
- On 1st of September, the chair group Marine Animal Ecology (MAE) celebrated its 5th anniversary with some activities on the waters of Vathorst in... -
Designing an optimal artifical reef
- In his PhD, Alwin Hylkema is asking what type of artificial reef structure type is most effective in increasing fish density around Saba and St.... -
Edwin Foekema at NPO1 on the effects of the MSC Zoe container disaster
- At the very start of 2019, container ship MSC Zoe lost about 300 containers in the North Sea when sailing near Terschelling and Ameland. Even now,...