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IIASA Director General and CEO Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat has been awarded Austria’s highest honor for services to science.

During the National Congres "Wadden Sea World Class' May 17 in Leeuwarden, the short film about Sea-level rise, Subsidence and Sedimentation in the…

Earlier this day, Jouke van Dijk, chairman of the Waddenacademie, presented on behalf of the trilateral scientific community the Trilateral Research…

The World Meteorological Organization has appointed Pavel Kabat as its first chief scientist and research director. He will lead the overall strategic…

For the project WEPPS "Warming Effects on Plant Soil interplay and ecosystem functioning in Wadden Sea Salt marshes” Universität Hamburg is searching…

During this two-week summer school in August, master students and early PhD students will explore the natural dynamics of the Wadden Sea together with…

In particular, empty cockleshells provide the main settlement substrate for flat oyster larvae. But also Japanese oysters and many other shellfish…

On February 1st, Dr. Ir. Katja Philippart was appointed as a Professor by Special Appointment at Utrecht University on the chair in 'Productivity of…

Geomorphology and climate, habitats and communities, species, human activities, and pollution of the Wadden Sea are the main areas of analysis in the…

During the 2017 aerial surveys for harbour seal counts, the number of newborn harbour seal pups in the Wadden Sea registered was the highest since the…

The International Small Islands Studies Association (ISISA) released a newsletter with a short report of the 15th Islands of the World ISISA…

On 31 August 2017, the Common Wadden Sea Secretariat and the National Park Lower Saxon Wadden Sea will hold the annual Wadden Sea Day at the UNESCO…

Helmholz Center Geesthacht (HZG) and the Wadden Sea Forum (WSF) invite the general public in the Wadden Sea region to take part in an online survey.

The 15th ISISA (International Small Island Studies Association) conference took place on Kangaroo Island (Australia) from 2 to 7 July.

Scientists from Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands discussed common research goals at the 14th ISWSS.

How many fish and mussels can be taken from the Wadden Sea without disrupting the ecosystem? How will climate change and rising sea-levels influence…

The Common Wadden Common Wadden Sea Secretariat (CWSS) in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, is seeking to recruit, as soon as possible, a "Programme Officer,…

The draft Trilateral Research Agenda is public and will be discussed next week at the 14th International Scientific Wadden Sea Region Symposium in…

In his doctoral thesis, Joao Leite Gusmão Junior investigates how the ecological function of sediment-living animals, such as cockles and worms, is…

Dutch scientists have found a method for growing certain crops on salinized, non-arable farmland. This is truly an innovation, since food production…

The Radboud University is looking for a PhD Candidate: Boundary Arrangements in Flood Risk Management

The North Sea Region Climate Change Assessment offers an up-to-date review of our current understanding of climate change in the North Sea and…

At the request of the Wadden Academy, ecologist Dr Eelke Folmer has written a position paper explaining how Bayesian Belief Networks (BBNs) can be…

Mans Schepers and Nora Mehnen have been at the Frankfurter Book Fair 2016 to present the Young Wadden Academy at the Classroom of the Future 2016 -…

In 2015 the Waddenacademie decided to establish the "Jonge Waddenacademie". This step was taken to encourage researchers to study the Wadden Sea…

Ecopotential is a Horizon 2020 European research programme for internationally acknowledged conservation areas that include the Wadden Sea in the…

Tuesday June 21 Katja Philippart (Board member of the Waddenacademie Ecology portfolio) will present on the International Conference Fish Passage…

The Joint Monitoring Group for Breeding Birds (JMBB) has launched a framework for an action plan for the protection of breeding birds in the Wadden…

Environmental stress such as low and high levels of nutrition, high hydrodynamics and light deprivation can cause seagrass to experience stress and…

The “International Small Islands Studies Association”, ISISA is organising the 14th International Conference “Niss(i)ology and Utopia: back to the…

Today the article "Options for socioeconomic developments in ICZM for the tri-national Wadden area" is published by the international scientific…

Increasing grazing pressures threaten grasslands on a global scale. Therefore, it is important to understand the impact of grazers on the functioning…

It is clear that fish populations have declined in the Wadden Sea since the 1980’s.

NIOZ has collected all her knowledge on Wadden systems around the world in a brand new Wadden Systems Research Centre.

Two articles on the Ems-Dollard area have been published in open access, thanks to a temporary fund of the Waddenacademie in order to stimulate…