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Professor Linda Amaral-Zettler delivered her inaugural lecture
5 Dec 2019
On Friday 29 November Professor Linda Amaral-Zettler, named Professor by Special Appointment of Marine Microbiology, delivered her inaugural lecture "Trouble on the High Seas: From Microplastics to Macroalgae". This ...
Honorary UvA doctorate for sustainability expert Johan Rockström
21 Nov 2019
The University of Amsterdam (UvA) is bestowing an honorary doctorate on the Swedish earth scientist and sustainability expert Johan Rockström. Rockström will receive the honorary doctorate for his pioneering ...
Science-publication for Mark Vermeij and fellow scientists of Berkeley University
12 Nov 2019
Mark Vermeij, Associate Professor of Tropical Marine Biology at IBED, was involved in a research with fellow scientists of Berkeley University which lead to the discovery of light-regulated collective cell ...
IBED researchers will start measuring nitrogen deposition for Mesdag Dairy Fund
11 Nov 2019
The Mesdag Dairy Fund (Mesdag Zuivelfonds) commissioned scientists from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) to measure the nitrogen deposition around dairy farms and in nature conservation areas. The Mesdag Zuivelfonds ...
What did the big Ice Age grazers eat? It’s written in their jaws
7 Nov 2019
UvA palaeoecologist Bas van Geel and his team have gained new insights regarding the landscape, the range of foods and the food choices of large grazing animals during the last Ice Age and the start of the warm ...
dr. A.R.M. (Arne) Janssen appointed as honorary professor
28 Oct 2019
dr. Arne janssen was granted a honorary professorship by Brazilian Universidade Federal de Viçosa.
Europe has a greater diversity and higher number of earthworms than the tropics
25 Oct 2019
An international group of 140 biologists has, for the first time, published an overview of the global spread of earthworms. Professor Franciska de Vries from the University of Amsterdam was one of the researchers ...
IBED researchers contribute to Bosatlas of Sustainability
24 Oct 2019
IBED was involved in the realization of this special edition of the famous Bosatlas; the Bosatlas of Sustainability. IBED researchers contributed in shaping the substantive themes and editing the texts. The Bosatlas ...
IAS hosts celebration for interdisciplinary PhD candidates
22 Oct 2019
Following the establishment in 2017 of the UvA’s Interdisciplinary Doctorate Agreement (IDA), a gathering was held on Monday, 21 October, at the Institute for Advanced Studies to celebrate the hiring of the last of ...
Publication of an open online textbook on Environmental Toxicology
22 Oct 2019
Recently a Dutch coordinated international initiative resulted in the publication of a freely available online textbook on Environmental Toxicology.
The project was coordinated by Prof. Kees van Gestel of the Vrije ...
IBED article in The American Naturalist: Why do phytoplankton evolve large size in response to grazing?
19 Sep 2019
IBED researchers Jef Huisman, Martijn Egas, Pedro Branco and co-author Spencer Hall from the Indiana University Bloomington published a paper in The American Naturalist, in which they present a new explanation for ...
Rollie Lamberson Award for Prof. Hal Caswell
13 Sep 2019
The Rollie Lamberson Award recognized a paper on which Hal Caswell of IBED collaborated with a group of mathematicians from the University of Louisiana.
Kick-off of new AI4Science lab
10 Sep 2019
The new AI4Science lab starts off this month, by appointing Patrick Forré as its lab manager and as an assistant professor. The AI4Science lab is a joint initiative of the institutes for astronomy (API), biology ...
Franciska de Vries and Crystal McMichael receive ERC Starting Grant
6 Sep 2019
Franciska de Vries and Crystal McMichael were both awarded the prestigious Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant allows them to further their research and hire supporting staff on their ...
Prestigious ERC Starting Grants awarded to 10 UvA researchers
3 Sep 2019
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Starting Grants to no fewer than 10 researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The laureates are Marija Bartl, Cristóbal Bonelli, Thomas Buser, Corentin ...
€20 million for plant stress research
30 Aug 2019
A consortium headed by the University of Amsterdam will receive a grant of over €20 million to study the relationship between plants and the microorganisms that live on their roots. In due course, this project is ...
Studying animal cognition in the wild – a new guideline
20 Aug 2019
Studying cognition in the wild is a challenge. Field researchers and their study animals face many factors that can easily interfere with their variables of interest and that many say are ‘impossible’ to control for. ...
Geodiversity is essential for conservation of natural resources
19 Aug 2019
To advance sustainable stewardship, we must document not only biodiversity but also geodiversity. This is the main message of an opinion article now published in the leading scientific magazine PNAS, written by an ...
Old human feces reveal cattail pollen as a food source in prehistoric China
7 Aug 2019
Pollen in human feces from 8000-7000 years ago shows that cattail was an important human food source in prehistoric China. This conclusion is the result of a study conducted at the UvA Institute for Biodiversity and ...
How humans and chimpanzees travel towards a goal in rainforests
30 Jul 2019
How do human-unique ranging styles, such as large home range and trail use, influence spatial performance? A study led by UvA researcher Karline Janmaat investigated spatial movement patterns of BaYaka people from ...
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