On 1 July 2021, our colleague Leo Maas officially retired. Although Leo will continue to come to the IMAU, this landmark offers a great opportunity to look back at his impressive academic career.
Eleven research pairs from Utrecht University and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) have been awarded grants to carry out joint research into the functioning of coastal seas and oceans.
The finding shows that these early organisms had already evolved traits to deal with waves and tidal currents on what was a turbulent coastline half a billion years ago.