16.11.2016: ECOLOC Meeting at ZMT Bremen
ECOLOC scientists from different institutions (e.g. ZMT, IOW, RWTH Aachen, University Hamburg) met in Bremen to discuss first project results and prepare the upcoming fieldwork in 2017.
09./10.11.2016: Steering committee meeting in Xiamen
PD Dr. Tim Jennerjahn, PD Dr. Thomas Pohlmann and Dr. Günter Jost participated in a workshop and the steering committee meeting of the Sino-German cooperation in marince sciences in Xiamen. PD Dr. Tim Jennerjahn reported on the progress of the ECOLOC project and presented our plans of the TICAS (Tackling…
15.10-22.10.2016: Marco Drews at intercalibration cruise in Baltic Sea
International scientists from China, the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany (from ZMT/IUP Bremen, IOW Warnemünde and GEOMAR Kiel) went for an one-week intercalibration cruise on the Baltic Sea which started and ended in Warnemünde, Northeast Germany. Marco Drews, PhD student at ZMT, attended the sea cruise to measure…
30.09.2016: Wolf Munder completed his BSc thesis project
Wolf Munder, student at RWTH Aachen, successfully finished his bachelor research project on “Organic contaminants in coastal sediments of Hainan, China”. Congratulations! Abstract: In the course of this thesis, a non-target screening of six surface sediment samples was performed. The coastal sediments were taken in Bamen Bay and its tributaries,…
Conference attendance alert: ECSA 56 (04.-07.09.2016)
PD Dr. Tim Jennerjahn, Prof. Jianfang Chen, Dr. Inga Nordhaus, Dr. Lucia Herbeck as well as PhD candidates Esther Thomsen and PhD Marco Drews attended the ECSA 56 (Coastal systems in transition: From a ‘natural’ to an ‘anthropogenically-modified’ state) in Bremen and presented their work.
August-October 2016: Mingquan Xu as guest at University Hamburg
Mingquan Xu from the Second Institute of Oceanography (SIO), Hangzhou, visited the Hamburg University, Institute of Oceanography from August to October 2016. He developed a circulation model for Hainan to fathom current observations.
Chinese Government Scholarship for Ping Li
PhD candidate Ping Li from the Hainan University is granted a Chinese Government Scholarship for a full year research stay at the RWTH Aachen. Her research work will focus on the identification and quantification of organic contaminants in coastal ecosystems. Congratulations!
June-August 2016: Jun Wang as guest at University Hamburg
Jun Wang from the Second Institute of Oceanography (SIO), Hangzhou, visited the Hamburg University, Institute of Oceanography from June to August 2016. He analyzed data collected via buoys from the east coast of Hainan and examined the influence of typhoons in depths.
28.03.2016: PD Dr. Tim Jennerjahn visiting SIO in Hangzhou
PD Dr. Tim Jennerjahn, biogeochemist at the ZMT, visited the Second Institute of Oceanography (SIO) in Hangzhou. He gave a talk “Environmental change affecting COastal ecosystems of tropical China during the Anthropocene: Landward vs. OCeanic influence – current status” and discussed the collaboration with colleagues from the SIO.
21.03.2016: Start of field work
Our first big field campaign started on March 21! The Sino-German group took various samples (water, sediments, seagrass, …) in Changqi – Wenchang – Qingge – Tanmen. The focus of the campaign was to conduct field measurements and collect samples for laboratory analyses. Here are some impressions and blog posts…
