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Last update: April 11, 2012

 

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Aliens from inner space: reproductive biology of marine invertebrates

Prof. Dr. Frank Melzner and team
Starting 20 April 2012, fridays 13:15 - 16:00/17:00 h
Small practical room, GEOMAR west shore


Marine invertebrate embryonic and larval development is one of the most fascinating and understudied topics in marine biology. Little is known about the ecophysiology of these early life stages – yet they seem to be the ontogenetic stages that might be most vulnerable to climate change.

This course will bring you in contact with the reproductive biology of the most important taxa in Baltic and North Sea. We will discuss echinoderms, polychaetes, bryozoans, tunicates, molluscs, crustaceans and cnidarians. We will also take weekly plankton samples in Kiel Fjord and bi-weekly samples from the North Sea to study the seasonal occurence of invertebrate larval stages and to observe them under the microscope. In addition, we will reproduce some groups in the laboratory and study development under controlled conditions.

Participants are required to give a seminar presentation on recent papers in invertebrate reproduction and will write a report on the occurence and biology of reproductive stages of a taxon of their interest in Baltic and North Sea.

This course is open to all interested students, PhD, Masters and Bachelor students (max. number of participants 12-15; please apply directly to fmelzner@geomar.de).

 
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Between Science and Society: Legal Regulation of Marine Resources

Research, Exploitation and Conservation

Prof. Nele Matz-Lück, CAU, Walther-Schuecking-Institute for International Law
11 June + 18 June + 25 June 2012, 9-14 hrs
Venue: Leibnizstr. 1 (Seminar building), room 105b

Law of the Sea for Non-Lawyers - how law links to science.

Research, exploitation and conservation are issues strongly anchored in the natural sciences, but implementation in a societal context is dependent on national and international legal frameworks. An understanding of these issues is important to fields such as marine conservation, resource exploitation, and other aspects of research. In this course, key aspects of the Law of the Sea will be presented and discussed. No prior legal knowledge is required!

Contents
•    (Legal) Terminology, Historical Overview
•    Marine Scientific Research vs. Resource Exploration
•    Resources: Non-living Resources, Living Resources (e.g. Fisheries) & Genetic Resources  
•    Protected Areas in the Oceans
•    Possible Effects of Global Warming (e.g. accessibility of resources in the Arctic

Registered ISOS PhDs have priority in our courses.

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Analyses of Univariate Data Sets - First Steps in 'R'

Dr. Mark Lenz, GEOMAR
14 December 2012, 14:00 – 18:00 h
Leibnizstraße 1, room 105a 

The workshop will introduce students to the free statistical computing software R, which currently becomes the standard tool for statistical analysis in many fields of natural sciences. It addresses absolute beginners who have not been working in the R environment on beforehand. Furthermore, we will follow a "how-to-do" approach throughout the course and will therefore not cover the underlying theory of the statistical procedures met.

Contents:

| Basic commands
| Import of data
| Use of vectors
| First analytical steps: simple graphs, assumption testing,
  transformation of data
| Tests for two samples and correlations
| General linear models in R: ANOVA and regression
| ANCOVA and model simplification

Registered ISOS PhDs have priority in our courses.

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