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Last week Jouke van Dijk presented the paper "Options for socio-economic developments in the trilateral Wadden area" at the WRSA (Western Regional…

On June 22-24, 2015, the 5th Fish Passage Conference will be held for the first time in Europe, in the city of Groningen, The Netherlands. Hundreds of…

Meadows where godwits breed should only be mown after 1 July. This would be the most effective measure to call a halt to the continual decline in…

Even though the number of bar-tailed godwits in the Dutch Wadden Sea has been on the increase since 1990, their numbers have been substantially…

Today, the Rome Declaration was presented at the EurOCEAN 2014 conference, an official event of the Italian EU Presidency.

On October 8 Jantsje van Loon will defend her PhD thesis at Wageningen University.

In 2018, the year Leeuwarden will be European Capital of Culture, the Wadden Academy is organizing an international conference on behalf of the…

'Dynamic coastal management’ has been used to maintain the dunes in several areas on Ameland since 1990. In other words, nature has been allowed to…

10 and 11 December 2014, the Waddenacademie and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO; the Dutch research council), organise a…

Livestock grazing is a commonly applied management type to maintain plant species richness on coastal salt marshes and other grassland types. The…

The Wadden Sea arouses the same feeling of regional identity in people living on the German coast as it does in their Dutch and Danish counterparts.…

The Trilateral Danish-German-Dutch Government Conference on the Protection of the Wadden Sea was successfully concluded in the town of Tønder, Denmark…

In many locations throughout the world, protection against increasingly severe flooding can be improved by the construction of large ecosystems (e.g.…

2013 was again a record-breaking year for Harbour seals in the Wadden Sea. The greatest number of Harbour seals, since the beginning of the Wadden…

The Joint Monitoring of Migratory Birds (JMMB) Group presents 24- and 10-year trends on 34 migratory bird species based on trilateral count data until…

During its 53rd annual congress in Palermo, Italy, the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) elected Prof. Jouke van Dijk President for a…

This year’s Wadden Sea Day was dedicated to the fascinating topic of salt marshes. Over 80 scientists, managers, policy makers and other Wadden Sea…

Evaluation of three years of counts and recommendations for future monitoring.

The Common Wadden Sea Secretariat (CWSS) regularly publishes a newsletter.

The Common Wadden Sea Secretariat (CWSS) regularly publishes a newsletter.

Latest trends in breeding bird numbers show that 2/3 of all internationally monitored species breeding in the Wadden Sea have declining numbers. The…

The conference 'Deltas in Times of Climate Change II' will be held in Rotterdam the Netherlands, September 2014.

The Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen (RUG) has the intention to appoint an assistant-professor on the overarching theme of…

On February 22nd 2013 the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) organised the Conference “Restoration of European estuaries: Ideas, approaches and implementation”…

At the meeting of the Wadden Sea Board on 6 March in Hamburg Prof. Jouke van Dijk, chairman of the Wadden Academy presented the main findings and…

The Wadden Academy is interested to know which lessons can be teased out from the OURCOAST database on the topic of governance of similar environments…

Katja Philippart is a renowned scientist with excellent communication skills. She studied Biology at Wageningen University and received her doctorate…

In November 2012 a special issue of the scientific journal ‘Netherlands Journal of Geosciences’ is published.

In 2012 the greatest number of Harbour and Grey seals since the beginning of the Wadden Sea-wide seal count in 1975 has been counted, informs the…

In December 2010 the trilateral scientific symposium ‘Towards a trilateral research agenda’ was organised by the Waddenacademie and several…

Scientific Director Jouke van Dijk just returned from a visit to Japan. He was here at invitation of Yoshitsugu Hayashi of the Nagoya University as an…

The Common Wadden Sea Secretariat (CWSS) regularly publishes a newsletter. The newsletter links to the latest information on the website of the CWSS…

Dwarf eelgrass (Zostera noltii) in the northern Wadden Sea is much more resilient than previously thought. Changing circumstances in the sea therefore…

Every year in The Netherlands, the ‘North Sea Days’ are organised. This is a platform where scientists, policymakers and industry interested in the…

European perspective in landscape research