Master's student in Freshwater and Marine Biology Rosalinde van Ooijen from the University of Amsterdam did her Master's research at NIOZ and spent last spring searching for barnacles and their parasites in the Dutch and German Wadden Sea. ‘Research assistant Loran Kleine Schaars advised me to keep an eye out for the Pacific barnacle Balanus glandula. Its numbers have been increasing significantly for decades in countries such as Japan and South Africa, and since 2015 we know that it also occurs in Belgium and Zeeland.’

See Student found the first Pacific barnacles in the Wadden Sea - NIOZ