Dr Katja Peijnenburg acquired a VENI grant of the Netherlands Organisation for Research (NWO) with a proposal titled “tempo and mode of marine zooplankton evolution”. She will use it to do research at the group of ...

In St. Johns, in Canada, Elisa Benincà of the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) won the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the annual summer meeting of the American Society for Limnology ...

In light of increasing awareness for climate change, measures are sought to reduce atmospheric CO2 levels by increasing CO2 uptake by plankton in the oceans. In an interview with CNN, Prof. dr. Jef Huisman of the ...

On 9 november 2007, Jurriaan Spaaks won the NBV Hissink prize for best MSc Thesis. In his thesis Jurriaan described the results of work done at the CGE research group of the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem ...

Cleve Hicks of the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) discovered a unique group of chimpanzees in the north of Congo. He explains about his research in an extensive interview in the Dutch ...

The majority of populations of large predator fish such as cod and salmon have been strongly diminished over the last decades because of overfishing, bringing these species to the brink of extinction. The problem is ...

Dr. Lucas J. Stal (1952) has been appointed as Special Chair of Marine Microbiology, which will be part of the group of Aquatic Microbiology of IBED. The Chair is funded by the AUV fund and is the first Chair in this ...

September 29, 2005. PhD thesis Dick de Zwart

December 2, 2005. PhD thesis Johan Schutten