Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research

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Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Scientific Community
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Scientific Community Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in 2014.
Category: research Institute
Consist: 1992
Legal form of the carrier: Public Law Foundation
Facility location: Rostock-Warnemünde , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Areas of expertise: Oceanography
Management: Ulrich Bathmann (Director)
Employee: approx. 220 (2010)
Homepage: www.io-warnemuende.de

The Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde (IOW) in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is an institute that is dedicated to research and teaching in the field of oceanography with a "special focus on the Baltic Sea ecosystem". It was founded in 1992 and is part of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community ; it is also an affiliated institute of the University of Rostock . The facility emerged from the Warnemünde "Institute for Oceanography", which belonged to the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .

The then Institute for Oceanography Warnemünde in 1967.

The institute in the legal form of a dependent state institution had around 220 employees in 2010, around half of them in the scientific field, and a budget of around 27.9 million euros, of which around 13.7 million euros were third-party funds . It is divided into the four sections “Physical Oceanography and Measurement Techniques”, “ Biological Oceanography ”, “ Marine Chemistry ” and “ Marine Geology ”. The main research areas are “transport and transformation processes in the sea”, “marine communities and material cycles” and “marine ecosystems in transition”. The research vessels Maria S. Merian and Elisabeth Mann Borgese , which are based in Rostock and are owned by the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, are available to the institute. In addition to its research activities, the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) entrusted the institute with national tasks in monitoring the Baltic Sea .

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Coordinates: 54 ° 10 ′ 46.1 ″  N , 12 ° 4 ′ 51.3 ″  E