Projects

Water and energy are crucial to sustainable development, both globally and within Germany. WANDEL focuses on the question of whether limited water availability restricts the use of conventional energy systems and thereby accelerates the energy transition, or whether it actually slows the transition down.

The Baltic Sea and its southern Lowlands: proxy – environment interactions in times of Rapid change

Climatic extremes, in particular storms and heat waves, are now becoming more frequent, a trend that has been linked to directional climate change and is projected to continue. The overarching aim of the MANTEL European Joint Doctoral (EJD) Training Network is to train a cohort of Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) to investigate the effects of the most extreme events, and more subtle lower magnitude episodic events, on lake and reservoir water quality.

The first network connecting freshwater and marine large experimental research infrastructures.

Synergistisc effects of periphyton shading and herbivory on macrophytes

In LakeBase we intend to bring long-term data of German lakes into one database infrastructure in order to make them visible and internationally assessable. 

Impact of antibiotics on aquatic microbial community and related ecosystem function such as carbon turn-over.

The aim of this proposal is to analyze the impact of storms on phytoplankton communities through joint analysis of meteorological, limnological and phytoplankton data from 21 lakes located in the US, Canada (the majority), Europe, Israel and Japan.