Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW)
The Baltic Sea Research Institute Warnemünde (abbreviated IOW for Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemuende) is a non-university research institute, dedicated to interdisciplinary marine research in coastal and marginal seas with a special emphasis on the Baltic Sea ecosystem. IOW is a member of the Science Association Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (WGL). Its basic funding is jointly covered by the federal government and the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Address
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW)
Seestrasse 15
D-18119 Rostock-Warnemünde
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Phone: +49 381 5197 208
Fax: Fax: +49 381 5197 440
email: juergen.alheit(@)io-warnemuende.de
Activities:
- Research
Focus of Research:
- Long-term changes - external influence and internal change
- Marine biocenosis and material flows
- Marine transport and transformation processes
Networks:
- Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (WGL)
Involved in research projects:
- Baltc Sea and North Sea GLOBEC: trophic interactions between zooplancton and fishes allowing the effects of physical processes. Details of Baltc Sea and North Sea GLOBEC: trophic interactions between zooplancton and fishes allowing the effects of physical processes.
- Forage fish interactions (FACTS) Details of Forage fish interactions (FACTS)