IMAP Retreat 2011

On Friday and Saturday the 14/15th October 2011 the Interdisciplinary Marine Post-Doc Network (IMAP) of the Future Ocean Cluster had its first retreat in the Guesthouse Samain. The 10 participants discussed the present and future status of IMAP and other Post-Doc related topics and presented their own projects in short talks followed by fruitful, lengthy discussions. In the evening Martin Visbeck joined the Pos-Docs and the group launched into an exciting evening with interesting discussions. On Saturday morning Emanuel Soeding and Nancy Smith of the cluster office also arrived in Samain. Martin Visbeck gave a short overview of the status and future of the Cluster. The main part of the morning was however used to discuss topics of IMAP features, funding and administration. The retreat improved greatly the network within the Post-Doc group and developed the Network itself. Hopefully the successful outcome of the retreat will motivate more Post-Docs next time to participate in the meeting.

Contact: Eva Philipp e.philipp@ikmb.uni-kiel.de, Jörn Schmidt jschmidt@economics.uni-kiel.de