Wij bieden de mogelijkheid om een onderzoeksstage binnen de werkvelden van ons instituut te volgen. Tijdens de stage bestaat de mogelijkheid deel te nemen aan veldwerk, waaronder onderzoeksreizen op zee.
Voor het zeegaande onderzoek wordt gebruik gemaakt van onderzoeksvaartuigen van het ministerie van LNV maar ook van bedrijfsvaartuigen. Studenten die tijdens hun stage deelnemen aan zeegaand werk worden medisch getest.
Voor de stage wordt een stagecontract getekend. Studenten ontvangen een stagevergoeding van maximaal € 200,- per maand. Een tegemoetkoming huisvestingskosten is in bepaalde gevallen mogelijk tot een maximum van € 200,- per maand.
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Stageplaatsen:
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Field work St. Eustatius Sea Turtle Conservation Program |
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apr - okt 2012 |
| Contactpersoon: |
Erik Meesters and Jessica Berkel (St. Eustatius National Parks) |
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The St. Eustatius Sea Turtle Conservation Program is looking for a volunteer / intern to lead nightly patrols and carry out the majority of the field work (under supervision) for their 2012 nesting season. The successful candidate would have to be on St. Eustatius from April 1 until October. Applicants who have experience applying flipper tags, PIT tags, doing nest excavations and nest relocations are preferred but training can also be given. Applicants must be fit and healthy and able to cope with long nights of patrol and long hours in the tropical heat. Please send Cv, cover letter, 3 references (academic and/or employer) and copy of passport to the email address below soonest. More details will be supplied to candidates once contact is established. |
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Outdoor algae culture |
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Pauline Kamermans |
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Development of flow-trhough contunuous microalgal cultures for application in shellfish hatcheries |
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Recirculation system for shellfish hatchery-nursery |
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Ainhoa Blanco Garcia |
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For improving growth and survival of larvae and spat, innovations in hatchery techniques are needed; in this project the ras principle (recirculation aquaculture systems) is applied. |
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The zebrafish model for exercise and nutrition studies |
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3-9 maanden |
| Contactpersoon: |
Arjan Palstra |
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Zebrafish is considered a vertebrate model but is also increasingly applied as fish model for aquaculture purposes. We have established zebrafish to study the exercise effects on growth, immune system and stress. We also use exercise to measure the nutritional impact on physiological performance. A fitness center for zebrafish! All with the objective to look for opportunities of implementation of exercise in aquaculture: A fit fish for a healthy consumer! |
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Optimalisation of salmonid RAS |
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3-9 maanden |
| Contactpersoon: |
Arjan Palstra |
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Atlantic salmon in Yerseke! In the large EU project Feed and Treat we try to optimize water quality and treatment efficiency in recirculating aquaculture. |
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Swimming physiology of yellowtail kingfish |
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3-9 maanden |
| Contactpersoon: |
Arjan Palstra |
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Yellowtail kingfish is a marine predator and excellent swimmer with great potential for aquaculture. Swimming tests have shown that growth can be improved by applying exercise protocols. Besides, swimming may reduce the cortisol stress response and may have positive effects on the immune system. We are studying their performance to optimize the swimming protocol, to quantify swimming effects and to study the mechanism in order to manipulate muscle physiology by exercise. |
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Sole reproduction: natural and artificial stimulation of sexual maturation |
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3-9 maanden |
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Contactpersoon: |
Arjan Palstra |
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Sole is still a tough species to reproduce in captivity. Although incidental success indicates that we are on the right track there is still much research to do to gain insights in natural spawning and artificial ways to induce spawning.
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Ecosystem engineers and coastal protection: oyster beds can play a role in coastal defense. |
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Tom Ysebaert |
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In the project focus is on settlement, growth and survival of oysters in rlation to environmental conditions |
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Food uptake and nutrient regeneration of seed mussels |
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3-9 maanden |
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Contactpersoon: |
Wouter van Broekhoven |
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Mussel spat collection systems affect nutrient circulation in the host ecosystem. The project investigates nutrient uptake and regeneration by these systems focussing on consequences for nutrient circulation at the scale of the ecosystem. Experiments are designed at the level of the waste products, the level of the mussel or at the level of an intact assemblage of mussels and associated organisms, involving fieldwork or lab work or a combination. |
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Predation of common starfish on mussels |
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Antonio Aguera Garcia |
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Starfish is an important predator of subtidal mussel beds. Starfish outbreaks and feeding aggregations may play an key role in the stability and survival of newly settled mussel beds. Many factors affect starfish predation rates. Prey density, starfish density and prey quality may play a key role in how fast mussel beds dissapear under starfish predation pressure. Laboratory experiments, field observations and/or field experiments are approaches that can be considered. |
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Predation rate of shore crabs (Carcinus maenas) on juvenile musselbeds at different densities |
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Jacob Capelle |
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The shore crab is an important predator of young musselbeds. Several factors can be thought of that might influence the predation rate of crabs on mussel beds. It will be interesting to see whether predation pressure is influenced by prey density, affected by territorial behaviour and how the productivity of musselbeds is altered by crab predation. The work will include field observations with cameras, a field experiment (enclosure) and a lab experiment (territorial behaviour of crabs and/or predation rate). |
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Shellfish growth in outdoor ponds |
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Contactpersoon: |
Aad Smaal |
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Analysis of growth and survival as a function of food quantitiy and quality; estimation of Food Conversion Ratios for different species. |
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Characteritics of mussels |
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Aad Smaal |
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The study aims at identifiying characteritics of mussels (taste, smell, salinity, texture, visual aspects, survival,) as a funtion of origin and treatment, inorder to define characteritics of zealand mussels. |
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Ecology comparison of European Smelt, Osmerus eperlanus in Waddensea versus Lake Ijssel and Lake Marker |
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5-6 maanden |
| Contactpersoon: |
Adriaan Rijnsdorp en Marieke Keller |
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Verschillende observaties hebben laten zien dat spiering populaties uit het Waddenzee gebied een hoger percentage grotere individuen telt dan de populaties in het IJsselmeer gebied. Groei, ontwikkeling en dieet patronen maar ook watertemperatuur en klimaat in het Waddenzee gebied zijn mogelijke factoren die hierin een rol spelen. Wat zijn de drijvers van deze verschillen tussen deze twee populaties?
>> Lees meer over: Ecology comparison of European Smelt, Osmerus eperlanus in Waddensea versus Lake Ijssel and Lake Marker |
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Reef fish diversity in the Dutch Caribbean |
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2012 |
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Martin de Graaf, Erik Meesters en Leo Nagelkerke |
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The aim of the project is to develop a robust method for long-term fish community surveys in the Dutch Caribbean. As many of the reefs in the Dutch Caribbean, e.g. the Saba Bank, extend below safe limits for diving surveys, baited remote underwater stereo-video (stereo BRUV) will be used to study fish diversity, relative abundance and population structure. Where possibly diver operated stereo-video transects (stereo DOV) will be compared with stereo-BRUV.
>> Lees meer: Reef fish diversity in the Dutch Caribbean |
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The population dynamics and life history characteristics of turbot and brill in the North Sea |
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5-6 months |
| Contactpersoon: |
Jan Jaap Poos |
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In this project, historic data of the surveys and commercial landings for the flatfish species Turbot and Brill will be analysed to quantify the historic changes in their populations with respect to the age-, size and maturity. The results will allow a first time comparison with other flatfish species, gaining a helicopter view of the changes that have taken place in the North sea over the past few decades.
>> Lees meer: The population dynamics and life history characteristics of turbot and brill in the North Sea |
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De dynamiek van het visgedrag van de vissers: een gedrags-ecologische studie |
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5-6 maanden |
| Contactpersoon: |
Jan Jaap Poos |
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Het onderzoek zal een ecologische benadering volgen die aansluit op de theorie van de gedragsecologie (behavioural ecology & foraging theory). In voorkomende gevallen zal aansluiting worden gezocht met sociaal-wetenschappelijke benadering. Onderzoeksobjecten zijn de Nederlandse platvisvisserij en de pelagische visserij.
>> Lees meer over: De dynamiek van het visgedrag van de vissers: een gedrags-ecologische studie |
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MODELKEY - Relatie tussen de chemische status en de ecologische status van het aquatisch milieu |
| Duur: |
5-6 maanden |
| Contactpersoon: |
Edwin Foekema (edwin.foekema@wur.nl) en Charlotte Deerenberg |
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Binnen dit EU-project wordt de relatie tussen de chemische status en de ecologische status van het aquatisch milieu onderzocht. In deze context bestudeert IMARES de effecten van verontreinigingen in sediment op vispopulaties. In een ander deel van het MODELKEY project wordt gekeken naar het potentiële risico van het verontreinigde sediment (gemeten met in vitro bioassays).
>> Lees meer over: MODELKEY - Relatie tussen de chemische status en de ecologische status van het aquatisch milieu |
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