🌊 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

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