IMAP News


New publication on baby sea turtles’ first day at sea

25. October 2014



Rebecca Scott, ‘The Future Ocean’-funded postdoc working at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, has published a new study describing how advances in the miniaturization of tracking technology have enabled a research …


International mobility with P.R.I.M.E.

10. October 2014



Right within the first call of the newly launched Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience (P.R.I.M.E.) program by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Jörn Thomsen, postdoc at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research …


Earth Science Women’s Network (ESWN) on ‘Leadership and networking skills and career development’

25. September 2014

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From 17th to 19th September, about 60 women scientists from later PhD level up to junior professors, met in Kiel for an international workshop of the Earth Science Women’s Network (ESWN) on ‘Leadership and networking skills and career …


ICES Merit Award for the best poster presentation goes to Kiel University

24. September 2014

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Rudi Voss of Kiel University, Germany and his colleagues Martin F. Quaas, Jörn O. Schmidt, and Lorena Fricke were presented with a merit award for the best poster presentation during the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) …


Kiel University and the Cluster of Excellence “The Future Ocean” at the GAIN Conference in Boston

05. September 2014



The 14th annual GAIN conference will take place in Boston (USA) from September 5-7, 2014. GAIN stands for German Academic International Network and is the largest conference outside of Europe for young German scientists conducting research in the …


New insights into the migration behavior of sea turtles

15. May 2014



Adult sea turtles return to the beach where they were born to lay their eggs. After breeding, adult sea turtles typically migrate several hundreds to thousands of kilometres to their feeding habitats, while other turtles do not migrate or feed in …


First-time cultivation of mussels from hydrothermal vents by Kiel marine biologists

10. February 2014



Dr. Claas Hiebenthal heads the Kiel Marine Organism Culture Center (KIMOCC), a joint project of “The Future Ocean” and GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel where advanced culturing techniques for experiments with marine …


First joint project between science and industry funded by the Cluster

20. January 2014



The contracts for the first joint research project (ROSSO) between science and industry were signed. The project is funded within the framework of the marine technology platform MaTeP in ‘The Future Ocean’ and relies on the scientific …