🌊 VLIZ hires a Technical Assistant Research (Junior). Join the #VLIZ team as a dedicated lab technician to tackle plastic pollution issues in marine environments. Work with micro- and macroplastics, conduct fieldwork & laboratory analyses, assist with student mentoring. Apply no later than 25 March. 🐟✨Details & how to apply: 🔗 vliz.be/en/jobs/vliz-recruit… #MarineResearch #ScienceJobs #PlasticPollution

Today at the PhD defence of Zhiyue Niu @slimkevin2 at #VLIZ, we learn that bio-plastics in the marine environment may not be the holy grail after all. Also bioplastics secrete microplastics and leach plastic-associated chemicals. Especially in combination with additional stressors, like global warming, adverse effects of bio-based plastics on populations of marine organisms could be demonstrated. 👉 vliz.be/en/imis?module=ref&r… PhD under supervision of @jaasselm, @JanssenColin, Ana I Catarino @Zebrazuli and @EveraertGert. #SeaBioComp, an @Interreg2Seas project.

Thanks to the 450 marine scientists for attending the VLIZ Marine Science Day! 👏🏽 It was a real pleasure to get an update on the ongoing sea research in Flanders/Belgium and beyond, and to meet again in person 😊 looking forward to the next edition! #vmsd23

How did the Flemish seascape evolve over the past 5000 years on land and at sea? Scientists from @VUBrussel, @KU_Leuven, @howestDAE and @VLIZnews will answer this question in the newly launched project ‘TESTEREP’. Check 👉🏼bit.ly/3EyGe7C @FWOVlaanderen #projecttesterep

#PLUXIN team work on the river Scheldt in Antwerp. Collecting macroplastics in surface water samples, to determine #plastic flux in Flanders. @BlauweCluster @VLIZnews @MarineAtUGent @UAntwerpen @VITO_RS @KU_Leuven @Departement_EWI @VLAIO_be #MarineLitter #RiverinePlastic

VLIZ recruits: a marine researcher to investigate air-sea fluxes. The candidate will start a PhD on the role of microbial life and their metabolites on the formation and stability of sea foam.👩🏾‍🔬Apply before 25 April 2022. More info👉🏾bit.ly/3urCqR5 #jobsatVLIZ #airseaflux

Werk van #VLIZ onderzoekster Nelle Meyers, samen met @ILVOvlaanderen en @MarineAtUGent Belgen forceren doorbraak in opsporing microplastics in zee: "Veel efficiënter in kaart te brengen" vrtnws.be/p.E1KY4VneW

VLIZ werft aan: mariene geowetenschapper om de evolutie en ondergang van schiereiland Testerep voor de Vlaamse kust te reconstrueren. Solliciteer tot 17/12. #ProjectTesterep #VLIZwerftaan #jobsatVLIZ @KU_Leuven @VUBrussel @howestDAE @WL_Dep_MOW bit.ly/3EaPsFK

#30DayMapChallenge - day 08: blue It has become an annual tradition to map the past year's tracks of our research vessel Simon Stevin for this 30 Day Map Challenge theme, so let's keep it up! ⚓️ @jmeesvliz @LifeWatchVLIZ

VLIZ werft aan: mariene geowetenschapper om de evolutie en ondergang van het schiereiland Testerep voor de Vlaamse kust te reconstrueren over de laatste 5000 jaar #jobsatVLIZ @KU_Leuven @howestDAE @VUBrussel @WL_Dep_MOW vliz.be/testerep/nl/2021-10-… vliz.be/testerep/nl/2021-10-…

‘De zee is een gigantisch reservoir aan inspiratie voor farmabedrijven’, met Fien De Raedemaecker @Fien_dr van #VLIZ en Jana Asselman @jaasselm van @MarineAtUGent tijd.be/r/t/1/id/10308283 @VLAIO_be @Departement_EWI via @tijd

Doggerland - Verdwenen wereld in de Noordzee: expo en publieksboek vliz.be/testerep/nl/2021-05-…

Giulia Leone of #VLIZ collecting spectral properties of different plastic items at the spectral lab of @VITO_RS_ for project #PLUXIN in collaboration with @UGent, @MarineAtUGent, @UAntwerpen, @KU_Leuven. Thanks to @VLAIO_be @Departement_EWI @BlauweCluster

Overal duiken dezer dagen beelden op van beleidsvoerders die naar de kapper zijn geweest. Zou het heropenen van de kapperszaken iets met ijdelheid te maken hebben 🤔

Yesterday, RV Simon Stevin sailed from #Oostende to #Antwerpen for plastic research on the Scheldt estuary. Watch the 7.5 h transit in 2 minutes youtu.be/c-aJIjHs_AY via @YouTube. #PLUXIN @MarineAtUGent @ugent @GCE_UAntwerp @UAntwerpen @VITObelgium @KU_Leuven @BlauweCluster

Hungry manta spotted at the river Scheldt! In situ measurements will provide us with new insights into the flux of plastic debris towards the North Sea. #pluxin project #VLIZ @UAntwerpen @MarineAtUGent @ugent @VITO_RS_ @KU_Leuven

Bringing the bedload sampler on board. Preparing for #pluxin sampling #vloot #VLIZ #ovam #fostplus #UAntwerpen #microplastics #macroplastics @jmeesvliz

RV Simon Stevin entering the Scheldt estuary for the first combined micro and macroplastics sampling campaign #VLIZ #UAntwerpen #pluxin #ovam #fostplus @jmeesvliz

In het niemandsland van de zee kon je maar beter goed gewapend zijn. #vliz @jmeesvliz focus-wtv.be/nieuws/400-jaar…