Kiel Indoor Benthocosms (KIBs)
GEOMAR seagrass restoration fascilities
GEOMAR climate chambers
[Corridor with climate chambers.]
At GEOMAR, we run a total of 25 climate chambers (smallest 3 m2, the largest 56 m2) which can be set to temperatures between 0 and 30 °C. The chambers are equipped with a steady supply of filtered Baltic seawater from Kiel fjord which can be used for flow-through setups that allow for high replication of experimental treatments.
Electric power and pressurized air supply is available in all climate chambers. In a number of chambers, CO2-enriched air can be used for ocean acidification research, or for algae fertiliziation.
Plankton food for filter feeders is supplied by the KIMOCC Rhodomonas culture.
A variery of different experimental setups can be realized using shelves, aquariums and diverse other equipment in the climate chambers.
[Brachiopoda culture experiment.]
[sponge shelf...]
In plankton rotation devices evolution and interactions of plankton organisms can be studies in multi-generation experiments.
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