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[Translate to English:] Open Ship Littorina

Kiel Marine Conservation City Day on June 8, 2024

GEOMAR is looking forward to your visit on and around the Reventlouwiese on the western shore of the Kiel Fjord

Every year, World Oceans Day is held on June 8 to honor the blue lungs of our planet and focus on their importance to mankind. Kiel, the capital of the land between two seas, also celebrates Marine Conservation City Day. Various exhibitors on the Reventlouwiese will offer a colorful program for learning, watching and participating, presented by Ocean Summit and Kiel Marketing. GEOMAR will also be there on June 8.

Program overview of the planned activities for the Day of the Marine Conservation City Kiel 2024 with GEOMAR participation

MOBY Stage, Reventlouwiese (14-15 h)

  • Opening talk Marine Conservation City Day 2024 with Kim Nierobisch (UN Ocean Decade German Committee), Dr. Mark Lenz (GEOMAR), Prof. Dr. Silja Klepp (Kiel Marine Science / CAU Kiel) and Alke Voß, Head of Department for Environment, Climate Protection and Mobility of the City of Kiel.
  • TDM Partner Meet & Greet

Expedition tent in the sailing camp on the Reventlouwiese (12-18 h)

  • Information station and hands-on experiment: How can the sea help us store carbon to protect the climate? (CDRmare)
  • Guided tours of the KOSMOS mesocosms, study: How does an increase in pH affect marine life? (Ocean Alk-Allign)Registration and start: Expedition tent in the sailing camp (max. 10 people)
    11:00 || 13:00 | 15:00 
  • Discover the colorful diversity of the oceans, photo exhibition of the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) and the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), with photos by GEOMAR scientists among more than 25 other impressive contributions
  • Info and experiment station on plastic waste on our beaches, GAME GEOMAR
  • Info station Citizen Science project “Sail4Oxygen”, data fishing for science, Trans-Ocean e.V. association and GEOMAR

Open Ship Littorina at the GEOMAR Pier (10-17 h)

  • Marine animals and plants from the Kiel Fjord  
  • Guided tours to the Kiel benthocosms, registration and start in front of the Littorina
    12:00 || 14:00 | 16:00 
  • Echosounder mapping of the seabed, Institute of Geosciences, CAU
    Seagrass mapping in the North and Baltic Seas
    Sensational find - archaeological stone wall discovered in the Baltic Sea using geophysical methods
    How marine researchers map the seabed with multibeam echosounders (discovery of a harbor porpoise pit)

GEOMAR Aquarium (9 am - 6 pm)

  • open free of charge

SNORKELING.CITY bathing jetty sailing camp (12 - 6 p.m.)

  • Snorkeling excursion in the Kiel Fjord, organized by Ocean Summit, GEOMAR and Kiel-Marketing

More about the Day of the Marine Conservation City 2024 (German only)

[Translate to English:] Open Ship Littorina

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