Emerging from the 12th International Seagrass Biology Workshop, held in October 2016, has been the view that grazing marine megafauna may play a useful role in helping to identify previously unknown seagrass habitats. Just follow green turtles & dugongs to map global seagrass meadows…
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Paper out: estimating the exposure to river plumes for coastal ecosystems
Can we estimate the exposure to river plumes for coastal ecosystems? During my PhD fieldwork I had the opportunity to collaborate with a multidisciplinairy team of hydrologists, physical geologists, modelers, coral reef biologists to study this in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
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Started my NWO-VENI grant @ AEW – Wageningen University
Today was my first day at the Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management group at Wageningen University.
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3 cool new papers!
A short update to announce that 3 new co-authored papers have been accepted this month! (more…)
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Personal research NWO-VENI grant received!
Happy news! I received a personal VENI (research) grant today, from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)! To work for 3-4 yrs on “Global defaunation and plant invasion: cascading effects on seagrass ecosystem services”. It will involve … (more…)
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Seagrass ecosystem services: Fieldwork Lac Bay, Bonaire
Just back from our field expedition to Bonaire…
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Guest post: Fionne’s research – sea turtle nest temperatures St. Eustatius
Hello Everyone, Marjolijn has introduced me in her earlier posts; I am Fionne Kiggen and at the moment I am undertaking sea turtle research in St Eustatius for my Masters thesis at Wageningen University. (more…)
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36 turtles tagged in St. Eustatius
Our in-water survey of sea turtles and their habitats in St. Eustatius (a.k.a. “Statia”) was very successful. We aimed to collect data to analyse the habitat use and population connectivity of green and hawksbill turtles as part of a larger NWO research program encompassing the 6 Dutch Caribbean Islands. (more…)
