Fotos: Jan Meier


WINTER SCHOOL »Ocean Governance for Sustainable Marine Ecosystems«

veranstaltet vom Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung (ZMT) und dem International Ocean Institute Deutschland (IOI)

WANN: 16. bis 21. Februar 2020

WO: Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung (ZMT) | Bremen


Ziel und Gegenstand der Veranstaltung

Die interdisziplinäre ZMT/IOI Winterschule hat 27 internationalen NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen ermöglicht, gemeinsam Lösungsideen für den nachhaltigen Umgang und Schutz der Ozeane zu entwickeln. Die TeilnehmerInnen kamen aus 19 verschiedenen Ländern, unter welchen auch diverse tropische Länder, wie etwa Indonesien, Brasilien, Südafrika oder Nigeria vertreten waren. 

In einem 5-tägigen intensiven Programm beschäftigten sich die TeilnehmerInnen mit den akademischen Grundlagen verschiedener Disziplinen (z.B. Naturwissenschaften, Politikwissenschaften, Forschung, strategischer Planung) zu diesem Thema. Neben diversen WissenschaftlerInnen von Universitäten und Wissenschaftsinstituten, welche von ihrer Forschung berichteten, hatten sie außerdem die Möglichkeit, verschiedene Perspektiven von erfahrenen Praktikern der GIZ (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), dem WWF und dem BSH (Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie) zu hören.

Ziel war ebenso über die Winterschule hinaus ein Netzwerk junger WissenschaftlerInnen und Praktikern zu schaffen, das die wissenschaftliche Expertise sowie eine gemeinsame Vision hat, um die Ziele einer nachhaltigen Nutzung der Ozeane zu fördern. Die Winterschule ist einer der Beiträge des ZMT zur UN-Dekade Ozeanwissenschaften für nachhaltige Entwicklung.

PROGRAMM

Das Programm dieser Winterschool (Feb 20202) finden Sie hier.

Zielgruppe

Die Winterschule brachte internationale NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen der Meereswissenschaften zusammen, die mehr über „Ocean Governance“ lernen und relevante und aktuelle Fragen zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung diskutieren wollten. Außerdem waren TeilnehmerInnen eingeladen, die als „young professionals“ im Bereich „Ocean Governance“ tätig sind.

Die Winterschule wurde von der Joachim Herz Stiftung sowie dem International Ocean Institute (IOI) gefördert.

 

 

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Die Bewerbungsfrist ist abgelaufen. Wir haben mehr als 400 Bewerbungen erhalten. Vielen Dank für das rege Interesse!

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 Workshop FishbarcodingFotos: Levy Otwoma, KMFRI, und Mattia Ghilardi


Workshop Fischbarcoding und funktionelle Ökologie: Rückschlüsse auf den Zustand mariner Küstenökosysteme

Vom 26. September bis 21. Oktober 2022

einschließlich zwei Wochen (3.10. - 14.10.2022) Training vor Ort am Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI) in Mombasa, Kenia


Das Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung (ZMT) und das Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI) laden zu einem umfangreichen Workshop zum Erlernen molekularer Fisch-Barcoding Methoden ein d.h. dem genetischen Artnachweis und dessen Anwendung in der Ökologie.

Kernstück des Workshops ist ein zweiwöchiges vor Ort Training in den modernen Laboren des KMFRI. Der inhaltliche Schwerpunkt des Workshops liegt auf der praktischen Anwendung molekularer und ökologischer Methoden. Zusätzlich zum praktischen Training wird ein zweitägiges Symposium Gelegenheit zur Vernetzung und zum Austausch mit eingeladenen Referentinnen bieten

 

Hier wird den Teilnehmer:innen auch Zeit eingeräumt, um über ihre persönlichen Projekte zu berichten.


I Workshop-Inhalte

In der ersten und letzten Woche des Workshops finden Online-Aktivitäten statt und konzentrieren sich auf asynchrones Lernen wie das Lesen von Literatur, Video-Tutorials/Vorträge, Fragebögen und Chat-Funktionen über die E-Learning-Plattform der ZMT Academy. Diese Aufgaben, die zeitlich individuell geplant werden können, werden von Videomeetings begleitet, die meist zwischen 13:00 und 17:00 Uhr (ostafrikanische Zeit EAT, entspricht 11:00 - 15:00 Uhr MEZ) stattfinden.

Die Dozenten sind Dr. Sonia Bejarano (ZMT), Dr. Levy Otwoma (KMFRI), Prof. Oscar Puebla (ZMT) und Dr. Achim Meyer (ZMT).

Woche 1: Die erste Woche besteht aus vorbereitenden Online-Aktivitäten, um das Hintergrundwissen anzugleichen und die theoretischen Grundlagen zu legen.

Woche 2 und 3: Der physische Präsenzteil ist unterteilt in i) praktische Fisch-Barcoding-Aktivitäten im Nasslabor, wie z.B. Gewebefixierung, DNA-Extraktion, PCR, qPCR, Auswertung von Gelbildern, und ii) Anwendungen aus der funktionellen Ökologie, wie beispielsweise die Messung morphologischer Merkmale, die funktionelle Ökologie kryptobenthischer Rifffische und Ordnung eines Artenpools in einem Funktionsraum. Die Arbeit vor Ort folgt dem ZMT-Hygienekonzept, wobei die Corona-Situation für März schwer vorhersehbar ist. Im Falle von Flugausfällen oder obligatorischen Quarantänemaßnahmen werden wir je nach Anzahl der betroffenen Teilnehmer den Workshop entweder verschieben oder als Hybridveranstaltung durchführen.

Woche 4: Die letzte Woche ist der Arbeit mit den generierten Daten gewidmet, wie der Sequenzbearbeitung, der Nutzung von Datenbanken und dem Erstellen phylogenetischer Bäume, und schließlich der Berechnung und Darstellung von Indizes der funktionellen Vielfalt.

II Wer kann sich bewerben?

Dieser Workshop richtet sich an Nachwuchswissenschaftler (MSc oder PhD), die auf dem Gebiet der Biodiversität von Meeresfischen, Korallenriffen oder funktioneller Ökologie arbeiten. Wir suchen Teilnehmer:innen, die in akademischen Einrichtungen, Regierungen, Forschungsinstituten, Universitäten oder Nichtregierungsorganisationen arbeiten und in Afrika südlich der Sahara ansässig sind. Vor allem Forscherinnen werden ermutigt, sich zu bewerben. Moderate Kenntnisse im Nasslabor, wie z. B. Pipettieren, sind erwünscht, doch wird der Kurs auch die Grundsätze der sicheren und sauberen Laborarbeit behandeln. Neben einem ausgeprägten Interesse an der Arbeit im Molekularlabor sind statistische Vorkenntnisse, z. B. in der Programmiersprache R, hilfreich.

III Auswahlkriterien

Die Auswahl wird von den Organisatoren:innen des ZMT und des KMFRI getroffen. Ziel ist es einen abwechslungsreichen Kurs mit 19 Teilnehmenden aus verschiedenen Ländern Sub-Sahara Afrikas zusammenzustellen, der sowohl die Vernetzung als auch das gegenseitige Lernen ermöglicht. Dabei werden Vorkenntnisse, Arbeitsgebiet, zukünftige Projektpläne und die persönliche Motivation berücksichtigt.

Bitte reichen Sie Ihre Bewerbung bis zum 7. Januar 2022 ausschließlich über dieses Formular ein.

Der Workshop wird durch die VolkswagenStiftung gefördert.

 

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The Bremen Earth and Social Science Talks (BEST) aim to attract engaging and influential speakers from the world of academia to Bremen to share their thoughts and ideas.

The purpose of the series is to provoke discussion and debate about a range of subjects at the intersections between natural and social sciences, with a focus on pressing societal grand challenges such as sustainability, climate change, resource exploitation, and governance.

The 45-minute lectures are followed by a discussion of about 45 minutes and are delivered at a level that is accessible to a general scientific audience.

The Bremen Earth and Social Science Talks (BEST) are held in the large seminar room (ground floor) of the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research  (ZMT), Fahrenheitstraße 6, 28359 Bremen.

The talks are free and open to the public, reservation is not necessary.

 

Programme for academic year 2018-2019

 

Thursday, June 20, 2019, 17:00-18:30, ZMT seminar room

The challenges of applying science to nature-based coastal protection

by Iris Möller

Dr. Iris Möller received her Ph.D. in Geography 1997, for a doctoral dissertation on ‘Wave attenuation over saltmarsh surfaces’ at the University of Cambridge. After a short spell of working at HR Wallingford Ltd, she joined the University of Cambridge’s Coastal Research Unit as a Research Associate and Deputy Director. She took up a Full-Time College Lectureship in Physical Geography at Fitzwilliam College of the University of Cambridge in 2000. Since 2014, she has held a University Lectureship in Physical Geography (Coastal Processes) at the Department of Geography, alongside continuing her role as Deputy Director of the Cambridge Coastal Research Unit. As an internationally recognised scholar, Dr Möller researches complex shallow coastal environments with a strongly applied focus on improving coastal flood and erosion risk management. She has over 40 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and is currently the Principal Investigator on ten and Co-Investigator on three collaborative research grants. Her 2013 true-to-scale experiment on the natural protection provided by salt marsh vegetation has been described by a reviewer as “just mind blowing and the results therefore unique and of incredible importance”.

Panel discussion with Sascha Klöpper:

Deputy Executive Secretary of The Common Wadden Sea Secretariat (CWSS)

https://www.waddensea-secretariat.org/trilateral-cooperation/common-wadden-sea-secretariat

Moderation:

Dr. Tim Jennerjahn


Programme for academic year 2017-2018

Thursday, December 6, 2018, 17:00-18:30, ZMT seminar room

Managing estuarine and marine areas to protect their natural functioning while delivering societal benefits

by Mike Elliott

Mike Elliott is the Professor of Estuarine and Coastal Sciences at the University of Hull, UK. He is a marine biologist with wide experience and interests including estuarine and marine ecology, policy, governance and management. He has published widely and has advised on many environmental matters for academia, industry, government and statutory bodies worldwide. He is a past-President of the international Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association (ECSA) and is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Estuarine, Coastal & Shelf Science; he has Adjunct Professor and Research positions at universities in Europe, Asia and Africa. Professor Elliott is also a member of several national and international committees linking marine science to policy.

Panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Karsten Reise:

Karsten Reise is a Professor emeritus at the University of Kiel who led the Wadden Sea Station Sylt of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, for a long time. He is a biologist and an engaged environmentalist who almost spent his lifetime in science on studying and protecting the Wadden Sea and he contributed significantly to the efforts of making it a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Professor Karsten Reise is currently studying the response of coastal seas to invasive species and providing concepts for the adaptation to and mitigation of outcomes of sea level rise of low-lying northern Germany.

Moderation:

Dr. Tim Jennerjahn

 


Thursday, September 20, 2018, 17:00-18:30, ZMT seminar room

Protecting the coast and the ocean from chemical pollution

by Lena Gipperth

Lena Gipperth is a Professor in Environmental Law at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg. Her research focuses on the legal implementation of environmental objectives, in particular relating to water and marine resources. She has been involved in several trans- and multidisciplinary research programmes and is now a part of the FRAM Centre for Future Chemical Risk Assessment and Management Strategies (https://fram.gu.se). Since 2015 she is the Director of the cross-faculty Centre for Sea and Society, an entrance to all marine and maritime activities at the University of Gothenburg.

Panel discussion:

Dr. Berit Brockmeyer

Dr. Berit Brockmeyer is head of the section “Environmentally hazardous substances” in the Department “Marine Sciences” (sub department “Chemistry of the Ocean”) at the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH). Her tasks include monitoring pollutants in water and sediments from the North Sea and the Baltic Sea as well as research into the detection of pollutants.

Moderation:

Dr. Tim Jennerjahn


 

Thursday, May 17, 2018, 19:00-20:30, Venue: Universum® Bremen, Wiener Straße 1A, 28359 Bremen

Historical Social Collapse

by Rafael Reuveny

Rafael Reuveny is professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. His research centers on the collapse of historical societies, migration associated with climate change, health impacts of climate migration, and causes of collective violence. He is author of many articles and books. He was programme chair of the meetings of the Global International Studies Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He won two teaching awards at Indiana University and is the co-recipient of the 2007 Award of Excellence in World Society Research, from the World Society Foundation, Zurich. Professor Reuveny is also expert in the political economy of the Middle East.

Panel discussion:

- Dr. Johanna Wehkamp, Mercator Research Institute (MCC), Berlin

Moderation:

Prof. Dr. Agostino Merico, Systems Ecology (ZMT)


 

Programme for academic year 2016-2017

 

 

Thursday, June 29, 2017, 19:00-20:30, Venue: Universum, Wiener Str. 1a, Bremen

Impact of Fisheries and Global Warming on Marine Ecosystems

by Daniel Pauly

Daniel Pauly is University Killiam Professor at the Institute of Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Canada, and Principal Investigator of the Sea Around Us. He has devoted his life to studying, documenting and promoting policies to mitigate the impact of fisheries on the world’s marine ecosystems. The concepts, methods and software he developed are documented in over 1,000 publications, which received more than 60,000 citations. His work has been recognized by numerous awards, notably the International Cosmos Prize, Japan, the Volvo Environmental Prize, Sweden, the Ramon Margalef Prize from the Government of Catalonia and the Peter Benchley Award.

Panel discussion:

Dr. Gerd Kraus, Director Thünen-Institute of Sea Fisheries
Mrs. Valeska Diemel, Director of Black Fish Germany

Moderation:

Prof. Dr. Agostino Merico, Systems Ecology (ZMT)


 

Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 17:00-18:30, ZMT seminar room

Seagrass global crisis – how to survive exposure to hypoxia and sulfide

by Marianne Holmer

Marianne Holmer is professor at the Department of Biology at University of Southern Denmark. Her research interests are in marine plant ecology and sediment biogeochemistry with particular interests in understanding ecosystem level dynamics of plants communities in response to resource, stress and disturbance gradients. Current research focuses on seagrass response to biogeochemical changes in temperate and tropical seagrass meadows in response to anthropogenic and natural disturbances. She has been head of department since 2010.

Panel discussion:

Mr. Tim Schröder, Science Journalist
Prof. Dr. Dieter Hanelt, Aquatic Ecophysiology and Phycology, University of Hamburg

Moderation:

PD Dr. Tim Jennerjahn, Ecological Biogeochemistry (ZMT)


 

Thursday, November 17, 2016, 17:00-18:30

Self organisation of diversity in living systems

by Kim Sneppen

Professor Kim Sneppen is the head of the Center for Models of Life at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. His background is in nuclear physics, statistical mechanics, and complex systems. His articles on punctuated equilibrium in evolution, genetic networks, epigenetics, and phage biology are highly cited. Some of his recent work suggests new approaches to understand influenza epidemics, provides an extension of the competitive exclusion principle in food-webs, and offers a new view on DNA methylation in the human genome.

Panel discussion:

Prof. Dr. Marc-Thorsten Hütt, Computational Systems Biology (Jacobs University)
Prof. Dr. Stefan Bornholdt, Complex Systems (Bremen University)
Prof. Dr. Achim Schlüter, Institutional & Behavioural Economics (ZMT)

Moderation:

Prof. Dr. Agostino Merico, Systems Ecology (ZMT)


 

Thursday, October 27, 2016, 17:00-18:30, ZMT seminar room

Grappling with a Changing Ocean: Coral reefs, people and COP21 agreement

by Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

Ove Hoegh-Guldberg is the Professor of Marine Science at the University of Queensland, and is among the most cited scientists working on the biological impacts of climate change. His research interests range from physiology and ecology of coral reefs, to the impact of climate change on ocean processes. He was Coordinating Lead Author (Oceans) for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Report on Climate Change and was awarded the HSH Prince Albert II’s prize for climate change in 2014.

Panel discussion:

Prof. Dr. Dieter Wolf-Gladrow, Marine Biogeosciences (AWI)
Prof. Dr. Anna Katharina Hornidge, Development & Knowledge Sociology (ZMT)
Dr. Sebastian Ferse, Human Agency, Resilience and Diversity in Coral Reefs (ZMT)

Moderation:

Prof. Dr. Agostino Merico, Systems Ecology (ZMT)


 

Thursday, September 8, 2016, 17:00-18:30 (inaugural lecture), ZMT seminar room

Physics-biology links enable self-recruitment of estuarine and coastal fauna and flora

by Eric Wolanski

Professor Eric Wolanski is a coastal oceanographer at James Cook University, Australia. His research interests centre on the interaction between physical and biological processes determining ecosystem health in coastal waters. Eric is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and a member of the College of Experts of the Australian Research Council. He was awarded a Queensland Information Technology and Telecommunications Award for Excellence, an Australian Centenary Medal, a Doctorate Honoris Causa by the catholic University of Louvain, and a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association.

Panel discussion:

Prof. Dr. Achim Schlüter, Institutional & Behavioural Economics (ZMT)
Prof. Dr. Agostino Merico, Systems Ecology (ZMT)
Prof. Dr. Martin Zimmer, Mangrove Ecology (ZMT)

Moderation:

PD Dr. Tim Jennerjahn, Ecological Biogeochemistry (ZMT)

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Welcome to the ZMT Data Roundtable!

The purpose of the ZMT Data Roundtable is to provide a discussion platform about topics related to computational statistical data analysis. These topics include approaches to statistical data analysis, data handling, plotting, etc. - in R, but also in other computing languages. The Data Roundtable consists of the following two components:

  • Monthly seminars: Once a month you are invited to join the Data Roundtable meetings, which can take the format of (i) a seminar, where an invited speaker presents an interesting new approach to data analysis, (ii) a trouble-shooting session, where three participants briefly (~10min) present a particular issue, followed by a discussion (~20min) to find a solution for that issue, and (iii) an open-coding session, where you are welcome to just bring your computer to work alongside your colleagues with the opportunity to ask questions whenever they arise.
  • Online GitHub organization: The backbone of the Data Roundtables is a GitHub organization consisting of repositories to archive and develop the data and scripts discussed during the monthly meetings, and an issue tracker to post questions and vote, which of them should be discussed during the trouble-shooting sessions. The Github organization is private so that you may also discuss unpublished data within the Data Roundtable community. Furthermore, it provides an opportunity to ask questions and receive help even if you are not able to attend the monthly meetings.

The Data Roundtable is not a teaching tool, hosted by a few experts. It lives because of the participation of the whole data roundtable community. Anyone who is interested can contribute: The data roundtables are open to any academic level (students, doctoral candidates, postdocs, group leaders, technicians) from ZMT but also from external institutes.

 

Upcoming meetings

First Data Roundtable in 2021: Thursday, 18.11.2021, 3:00-4:30 pm

Fridolin Haag will give a talk about "Understanding hypothesis tests as linear models".

Mini Abstract: Most of the common statistical hypothesis tests (T-test, ANOVA, ANCOVA, chi-square, etc) can be formulated as special cases of linear models (think y=a⋅x+b ). This means we can understand many tests by learning just one common framework, which may make our life as scientists much easier. In the session, I will explain the relationship between tests and linear models and we will calculate some examples to see their equivalence. You are welcome to bring cases of hypothesis testing you use in your work to discuss.

Archive of the past meetings (login required): https://github.com/ZMT-Data-Roundtable

 

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