Jim van Belzen
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Estuarine Ecologist & Modeller, PhD || Coastal Resilience Lab @ Wageningen Marine Research & Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research || Researching how Emergent Engineering can shape Climate-Robust Nature-based Solutions
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Nu na de overstap naar dit platform 🦋 en veel nieuwe volgers in een paar weken tijd, leek het mij zinvol om mijzelf en mijn werk te introduceren.

Een draadje 🧵👇
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Mixed plant and arthropod biodiversity responses to solar park establishment on former agricultural lands 🦋

Suggests that, while biodiversity can increase in solar parks post-conversion compared to previous land use, not all taxonomic groups benefit from this change 🌏🧪

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Als 'Zeelanders' hebben we momenteel nog steeds de beste uitgangspunten om onze provincie/zuidwestelijk 'delta' robuuster in te richten om klimaatverandering en zeespiegelstijging op te vangen. Maar dan moeten we wel de keuze durven te maken voor herstel van natuur & natuurlijke landvorming
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Deze week neem ik Falco en Maas mee in de aflevering “Leven met Water” van Dwars door de Delta
#GeoPark #ScheldeDelta #OmroepZeeland

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Dwars door de Delta, Leven met water
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Dag 2 van #WeekendvandeWetenschap op pad om een kids college te geven in het Geofort
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A system can be said to be robust if one or more of its structural or functional properties remains invariant despite exposure to nontrivial perturbations.
#TriviaFriday
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I think the thing that really gets me is the confidence with which people are wrong these days
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Just out!
Our work on #Xiriton as a novel building material with potential for nature-enriching the marine environment based on locally sourced materials.
doi.org/10.3389/fmar...
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Still plenty of time to submit papers to the Annals of Botany special issue on #Macroalgae and #EcosystemServices. Deadline for submissions is Nov 30th! #Kelp #Fucoid #seaweed #CCA @annbot.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @twernberg.bsky.social @chrisecornwall.bsky.social
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Nine years ago today on September 26, 2016, we lost Toughie — the last Rabb’s fringe-limbed tree frog on Earth — to the extinction crisis.

Dozens of species go extinct everyday, but you can help stop the extinction crisis. Join us at 👉 www.savinglifeonearth.org
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Great meeting. Great team 😉
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Still time to apply! Deadline tomorrow for postdoc on #NbS in salt marshes with fantastic Jim van Belzen & Tjeerd Bouma. Going to be fun project & team! 🤩 @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social @jngriffy.bsky.social @melaniejbishop.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @aec13.bsky.social @stonelivinglab.bsky.social
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Come join us as a #Postdoc on BLUESHORES 🇪🇺 project at the NIOZ to test novel #NaturebasedSolutions to coastal defence 🌊 on saltmarshes 🌱.
workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po...
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Day 3: the BLUESHORES kick off meeting in Chioggia at the Venice Lagoon is a wrap. Great to see old friends and meet new ones. Thanks for hosting us Laura Airoldi and team
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Thank you to Laura Airoldi & team 🇮🇹 for hosting us and for facilitating productive scientific discussion to kick off Project #Blueshores - investigating nature based solutions #NBS to salt marsh erosion. 🌱🌾 Bring it on 💪🙌😀 @benthicecol.bsky.social @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social
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Project Blueshores is go! 🇪🇺 Kick off meeting at Uni Padua marine station, Chioggia 🇮🇹 is a beautiful location for meeting old &new friends ☺️@amandahsiung.bsky.social
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Project #Blueshores fieldtrip to the salt marshes 🌱🌾 of the #Venice lagoon. Scoping out sites for hybrid blue-green infrastructure #HBGI trials. @benthicecol.bsky.social @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social
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3 more days to apply for great postdoc opportunity on saltmarhses with amazing team NIOZ in the Netherlands @niozsearesearch.bsky.social
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Come join us as a #Postdoc on BLUESHORES 🇪🇺 project at the NIOZ to test novel #NaturebasedSolutions to coastal defence 🌊 on saltmarshes 🌱.
workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po...
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Day 2 of the BLUESHORES start meeting in Chioggia at the Venice Lagoon is a wrap. The field trip was great and some good discussions to get the science right.