Monitoring river input on seagrass

After 1 week of preparation the penyu team arrived at Derawan. Here Ibu Heldi invested my last payments in improving her place. Now it feels even more like home and our own research station even! In the week that my supervisors are here we revisited the seagrass meadows that they sampled in 2003. Sampling the …

The New Penyu Team

Yesterday I arrived in Jakarta and there we made our first group picture with our fresh t-shirts. This was also the presentation of the new penyu.nl logo (see below). Meet our new team. From left to right Sarah Engelhard, Sjoerd van der Zon, Jan Roelofs (Prof. RU), Wawan Kiswara, Arifin (LIPI Oceanography, Jakarta), me, Leon …

Sylt Seagrass Workshop

This Autumn our seagrass researchers team from Radboud university Nijmegen and NIOO Yerseke visited our seagrass collegues in the Wadden Sea Station Sylt Germany. Besides the presentations we had some wonderfull excursions to the seagrass in the bay behind the institute. And our hosts Harald and Ragnild Asmus also to took us out to dinner …