Pelagia

🌊 The NIOZ@Sea TIP-TOP Expedition blog! 🌊

RV Pelagia departed from Mindelo on Sao Vicente (Cabo Verde) on Tuesday 28 January 2025 for the TIP-TOP Expedition and is due to arrive at Las Palmas on Gran Canaria (Spain) on Wednesday 19 February. This is also her first voyage of her final year.

Several tipping points in Earth’s system could be crossed in the near future due to human activities, and hence there is a need to understand such potential abrupt changes on Earth. During this cruise, an international team of researchers, led by Rick Hennekam, will reconstruct abrupt changes in North African climate and environment using sediment cores from research vessel Pelagia to determine whether these past abrupt events are tipping points.

Moreover, the multidisciplinary team will also maintain two dust-collecting buoys and a sediment-trap mooring that have been monitoring Saharan dust and its marine-environmental effects since 2013. This expedition will collect data that provide insights into (abrupt) environmental changes, with relevance for better understanding past, present, and future changes.

Don’t miss a beat! Follow the blog for the latest updates and behind-the-scenes stories from the expedition at https://www.nioz.nl/en/blog/64pe540.

NIOZ@Sea: The TIP-TOP Expedition Several tipping points in Earth’s system could be crossed in the near future due to human activities, and hence there is a need to understand such po…

📢 Important announcement 📢

Hello, everyone! We want to let you know that we will be closing this account soon, because research vessel Anna Weber-van Bosse, the successor to the RV Pelagia, has been launched in Spain and the construction is halfway through. In a year's time, the new flagship of the Dutch research fleet will be ready for use. But don’t worry, NIOZ is still here!

On the main NIOZ page, you’ll find:
- Updates on marine research projects
- Updates on the construction of newest research vessel Anna Weber – van Bosse and other RV's
- News about our expeditions and findings
..and much more!

Also follow us on our main NIOZ LinkedIn page, where we are more active https://www.linkedin.com/company/nioz-royal-netherlands-institute-for-sea-research/?viewAsMember=true
or the LinkedIn NMF page https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/nioz-national-marine-facilities/about/?viewAsMember=true

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NIOZ@SEA blog | The team is currently sampling their 3rd out of 40 stations during their 4 week long expedition in the North Atlantic. The team is set to sample the water column and sediments for trace metals, isotopes, ligands, and biological parameters, that is, phytoplankton in the surface ocean.
Instruments are working, spirits are high, and the weather is good. 👉 https://www.nioz.nl/en/blog/metalgate-2021-cruise

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Dust2021 From 12 January to 8 February 2021 we will be chasing Saharan dust once more. We intend to service both the dust-collecting buoys "Carmen" and &q…

NIOZ@SEA | Whale watching during the Altantic Nanoplastics cruise A group of curious short finned pilot whales (grienden) alongside RV Pelagia.

NIOZ@SEA BLOG | Day 9 of the assembly of the NIOZ 3D high-precision temperature array.

RV Pelagia has arrived in the harbour of La Seyne sur Mer and will tow the impressive floating construction to its position later on. Read the blog of scientist Hans van Haren & his team: https://www.nioz.nl/en/blog/niozatsea-assembling-a-3d-high-precision-temperature-array

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ReViFES fieldwork 2020 | Investigating North Sea reefs services Biogenic reefs are hard structures built by living organisms which form complex ecosystems and are accountable for several important ecological functions. …