News Archive 2020
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Limits to marine food production
December 11, 2020 - A new study finds that making better use of the sea as a food source is difficult because the trophic efficiency of marine ecosystems is already high.... -
Results of harbour seal monitoring in the Dutch Wadden Sea
November 12, 2020 - Last summer, 7,661 harbour seals were counted in the Dutch Wadden Sea; an increase of 4% compared to last year. In the international Wadden Sea, the... -
Detonation cord in the stomach of a fulmar
November 9, 2020 - Recently, our German colleague Nils Guse published an interesting short paper in the journal SULA of the Dutch Seabird Group (NZG). -
PhD thesis defence Susanne Kühn
October 27, 2020 - Susanne Kühn has been involved in the fulmar research conducted at Wageningen Marine Research (WMR) since 2011. Between 2016 and 2020, she was... -
After 389 days, the largest Arctic research expedition of all time comes to a successful end in Bremerhaven
October 19, 2020 - After more than a year in the Central Arctic, on Monday 12 October, the research icebreaker Polarstern returned to her homeport in Bremerhaven.... -
Fulmar report for the Netherlands 2019
October 16, 2020 - A new report has been published on fulmar-plastic monitoring research conducted by Wageningen Marine Research. With help from many volunteer surveyors... -
New knowledge on the sea ice of the polar oceans
October 16, 2020 - Sea ice plays an essential role in the global climate. Physicist Giulia Castellani (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany) published a new study on the... -
British fulmars confirm decrease in plastic debris
October 9, 2020 - Monitoring of plastics in stomach of fulmars in the United Kingdom is coordinated by Wageningen Marine Research. This work implies close cooperation... -
Photo impression MOSAiC expedition in the Arctic Ocean
September 1, 2020 - After a long time at sea, researcher Serdar Sakinan finally arrived back home from the MOSAiC expedition in June. Due to travel restrictions,... -
Transfer of toxic additives from plastic to fulmars
August 19, 2020 - Plastic contains many chemical substances, so-called additives, enhancing specific plastic properties. Common additives include plasticizers, UV...