28.11.2017: ECOLOC Meeting at ZMT Bremen
ECOLOC scientists from different institutions (e.g. ZMT, IOW, RWTH Aachen, University of Hamburg, Hainan University) met in Bremen to present and discuss project results.
Conference attendance alert: EMEC 18 (26.-29.11.2017)
Prof. Jan Schwarzbauer attended the 18th European Meeting on Environmental Change (EMEC) in Porto, Portugal and presented a poster with the title “Molecular indicators for dockyard works in coastal sediments of a large industrialized port area in Hainan Island, China”.
Conference attendance alert: ECSA (16.-20.10.2017)
PD Dr. Tim Jennerjahn from ZMT Bremen and Dr. Wu Rui from HAOFS attended the ECSA (Estuarine Coastal Sciences Association) conference in Shanghai, China. Dr. Jennerjahn gave a talk about “Tackling environmental change issues of China’s coastal aquatic systems through Sino-German collaboration projects ECOLOC and TICAS, on the example of…
10.-14.10.2017: PD Dr. Tim Jennerjahn in Haikou and Hangzhou
PD Dr. Tim Jennerjahn visited the Hainan Academy of Ocean and Fishery Science (HAOFS) and the Hainan University in Haikou as well as the Second Institute of Oceanography (SIO) in Hangzhou to discuss ECOLOC results and the follow-up project TICAS (Tackling environmental change Issues of China’s coastal Aquatic Systems: Networking,…
October 2017 – February 2018: Nan Xiang as guest at ZMT
Nan Xiang from the Hainan University was granted with a Chinese Government Scholarship and she will visit the ZMT for 4 months. In her research study, she wants to identify ecologically important benthic invertebrates and investigate the benthic food web structure in mangrove areas in relation to aquaculture effluents at…
Conference attendance alert: GeoBremen 2017 (24.-29.09.2017)
PD Dr. Tim Jennerjahn, Dr. Lucia Herbeck, Dr. Franziska Günther and PhD candidate Marco Drews attended the GeoBremen in Bremen, Germany, and presented their work.
September 2017: Third-party funding success for TICAS project
The major goal of the upcoming project TICAS (Tackling environmental change Issues of China’s coastal Aquatic Systems: Networking, capacity building and knowledge exchange) is to facilitate the production and dissemination of knowledge required for producing solutions to environmental problems of China’s coastal aquatic systems. Building on the basic research activities…
Conference attendance alert: IUCN (12.-16.09.2017)
PD Dr. Tim Jennerjahn and Dr. Lucia Herbeck attended the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Mangrove Symposium in Bremen, Germany. Dr. Herbeck presented her poster with the title “Decadal changes in mangrove and pond aquaculture cover and related ecological and biogeochemical impacts on eastern Hainan, tropical China (1966-2009)”.
12.09.2017: Start of field work
Our third and final field campaign started on September 12th! The Sino-German group took various samples (water, sediments, seagrass, …) in Wenchang and Yelin. Here are some impressions and blog posts from the fieldwork.
First ECOLOC Fact Sheet addressing seagrass
The first ECOLOC Fact Sheet providing basic information about seagrasses is available online (ecoloc.zmt-bremen.com/outcome/fact-sheets).
