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Three NIOO researchers on the Highly Cited Researchers list of 2024
Three NIOO researchers are on this year's Clarivate Analytics' “Highly Cited Researchers” list. Paolina Garbeva for the first time, two others for the seventh consecutive year: Jos Raaijmakers and Wim van der Putten.
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Boost the biodiversity at Lowlands
Visit NIOO during Lowlands festival at Lowlands Science and join the citizen science research into the water quality of Lake Lowlands.
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Soil animals as guests at Klokhuis
Watch the Klokhuis episode airing on 28 May, where NIOO will put soil animals in the spotlight. The episode will air between 18:40 and 18:55 on NPO3, or you can watch it later on hetklokhuis.nl or NPO start.
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Symposium NWA Living labs for the restoration of rural biodiversity
Under the banner of the National Science Agenda, a broad programme of three living labs and an umbrella project started in 2021. During the symposium at Hotel Zuiderduin (Egmond aan Zee), interim results of the research programme will be presented, two external keynote speakers will share inspiring experiences and there will be time in the workshop sessions to reflect and give input.
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Earthworms winners of humid 2023 & Leeuwarden bags the title Soil Animal City of the Year
Spring has started in the Netherlands, and that means our soil life is very active again. How much do we know of the creatures living under our feet? That is where the citizen science project of the Soil Animal Days comes in. What did the results of 2023 show us? Earthworms like wet weather and managed to retain their position in the national soil animals Top 3: they were spotted in 87% of gardens. And in Leeuwarden, people searched for soil animals with such enthusiasm and a clear focus on the importance of soil animals that the Frisian capital may proudly call itself Soil Animal City of the Year.
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Suzanne McGowan appointed Professor of Aquatic Ecosystem Dynamics
Meet the new Special Professor of Aquatic Ecosystem Dynamics: Suzanne McGowan. As of 2024 she is appointed at Utrecht University. Her chair offers a unique combination between the university's faculties of Science and Geosciences. McGowan integrates this with her main affiliation as the Head of Aquatic Ecology at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW). As a professor, she aims to uncover how water ecosystems have been functioning, and how the major changes on our planet affect this.
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Exposition 'Augmented Ecofeminisms: Climate, Water and Women'
This month at NIOO: the art exhibition 'Augmented Ecofeminisms: Climate, Water, and Women'. This exhibition illustrates how the problems associated with climate change differentially affect women in many parts of the world.
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Dealing with bluegreen algae
Worldwide, excessive nutrient loads in lakes and reservoirs have led to the rapid increase of harmful cyanobacteria. Blooms of these algae block the use of surface water for drinking, irrigation and recreation. Climate change is expected to further increase the frequency, duration, and magnitude of cyanobacterial blooms. Aquatic ecologists from NIOO are busy gaining more detailed insights into cyanobacterial blooms across scales, in future climates and in respect to toxicity.
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Greenhouse gases
Climate change is amplified by greenhouse gas emissions. At NIOO, we work on the fundamental understanding of how gases such as methane, carbon dioxide and nitrogen dioxide influence ecosystems. Our knowledge of carbon and nitrogen cycles provides insight into the potential of greenhouse mitigation tools. In a Dutch freshwater lake or the soil of a tropical rain forest.
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The Centre for Soil Ecology goes national
Today, on World Soil Day, it is the perfect moment to present the new National Centre for Soil Ecology. All soil ecologists working in the Netherlands can now connect to the initiative that originally started in Wageningen.