Summer semester 2024

General remarks

General lecture period summer semester 2024: 15.04.2024 to 12.07.2024 (with winter semester 2023/2024, 2nd exam period: 02.04. - 13.04.2024 (link CAU) - In accordance with the CAU's examination procedure regulations, there are no courses in bachelor's and master's degree programs during the examination periods (few exceptions for first semester students)).

More information at M. Sc. Biological Oceanography - information for students on OLAT.

Exam dates summer semester 2024: here (OLAT)

There is no general registration for courses - only for the exams at the end of the semester during registration phases (s.b.).

Notes on how to use the online tool can be found here:

If you have questions about the examination administration procedures in general (registration periods, examination periods, etc.) you may find answers in the Examination procedures section. If you are still unclear about anything you can contact the relevant Examination Office at any time.

Complete examination schedule SS 2024 (link to CAU).

Examinations:

Typical examination procedure:     

  1. Examination registration: You register for the examinations that you would like to take in the next examination period or that are assigned to the next examination period (s.b. Examination Organisation Online (CAU)). In case of registration problems contact the Examination Office Biology.

    During the registration period for the 1st examination period please register for all the written or oral examinations you would like to take in the 1st examination period (or around and assigned to the 1st examination period), but also for the examinations that you have already taken or started (e.g. seminar papers) during the lecture period (including before the registration period), as well as for examinations (e.g. assignments) that are to be taken during the lecture-free period.

    Note: For examinations taken before the registration period, examination attendance is considered as binding registration. You must also register for these examinations during the registration period, however, so that your academic achievements can be recorded in the system at a later stage.

  2. Checking admission: Two days before the start of the examination period, you check whether you have been granted admission to the examinations you have registered for.
  3. Examination attendance: You take the examinations during the examination period.
  4. Checking results: You check the results entered by the examiners.

Examination Organisation Online (CAU)

Access to the online tool in the CAU-Portal: http://www.uni-kiel.de/hisinone

The online tool has the following functions:

  • Registering for examinations / Cancelling registrations
  • Information on registered examinations (checking admissions. Information on examination dates, times and rooms)
  • Information on examination results
     

Notes on how to use the online tool can be found here:

You need your stu-ID to use the Studierenden-Online-Funktion online tool. Detailed information on the stu-ID and stu-e-mail address can be found at the Computing Centre StudiNet.

If you have questions about the examination administration procedures in general (registration periods, examination periods, etc.) you may find answers in the Examination procedures section. If you are still unclear about anything you can contact the Examination Office Biology at any time.

Registration period first exam phase summer semester: 03.06.2024 - 30.06.2024

First exam period summer semester: 15.07.2024 - 27.07.2024

Registration period second exam period summer semester: 26.08.2024 - 22.09.2024

Second exam period winter semester: 07.10.2024 - 19.10.2024 

Complete schedule see CAU website and here (link to CAU).

Keep in mind - it's your responsibility not to miss any fixed dates and/or deadlines.

Practical courses, practical exercises and some seminars have compulsory attendance (FPO).

Make sure that you sign the attendance list every course day!

Framework of courses:

  1. All of the five first semester modules are compulsory.
  2. Passed core modules of the first semester (MNF-bioc-101 and MNF-bioc-102) are important for the understanding for the advanced modules of the second semester in summer (e.g. MNF-bioc-201 and MNF-bioc-202).
  3. Passed exams of ALL compulsory modules of first and second semester are the  indispensable prerequisite for the exam of the core module of third semester in winter (MNF-bioc-301).
  4. A short presentation of your planned master's thesis ("proposal day") and a passed exam at the end of MNF-bioc-301 is the prerequisite to register your thesis (MNF-bioc-401) at the examination office.

For details concerning exams, prerequisites etc. look at the exam regulations in Biological Oceanography (p. 10-13).

Forms concerning exam withdrawal for good cause, medical certificate etc. (forms).

General regulations concerning examinations can be found here.

Considerations concerning using first or second exam phase (CAU).

Exams are generally scheduled only for the semester where the modules are taught.

  • There are no exams for winter semester modules MNF-bioc-1xx and MNF-bioc-3xx in summer semester.
  • There are no exams for summer semester modules MNF-bioc-2xx in winter semester.

Examination Schedule (lecturers and students tasks (link to CAU)

 

Timetables and course lists

General: Courses (lectures, seminars, practicals etc.) summer semester 2024

MSc. Biological Oceanography - second semester - lecture plan summer semester 2024 (click on "Stundenplan" for a complete time table).  All seven different possible practical parts in three blocks of MNF-bioc-202 are shown which looks heavily loaded - but you have to choose only two resp. three non overlapping parts.

Details: More detailed information concerning single courses and modules can be found on OLAT in general, resp. M. Sc. Biological Oceanography - information for students or via our module list, with links to the resp. module information on OLAT.

As you can take many optional modules outside of our curriculum (CAU-wide choices) these are not included in the example lists and timetables.

Block courses in summer 2024: 

  • MNF-bioc-264 (S. Garthe, Büsum): September/October 2024
  • MNF-bioc-271 (B. Schneider, Kiel): 21.05.2024 - 24.05.2024
  • MNF-bioc-280 (K. Heubel, FTZ): 26.08.2024 - 06.09.2024 at FTZ Büsum.
  • MNF-bioc-301 (F. Mittermayer, ALKOR cruise MNF-bioc-301): 18.08.2024 - 30.08.2024
  • MNF-bioc-368 (F. Weinberger, Aaland-Island (Finland) - Marine station Husö): 07.09.2024 - 22.09.2024

  • For optional modules within Biological Oceanography look at the module list.
  • Generally: for imported courses (e.g. Introduction to Physical Oceanography) and and courses outside of M. Sc. Biological Oceanography please always contact the person in charge of the module you are attending and the corresponding exam office.
  • For a selection of courses outside of our curriculum look here (optional courses outside of Biological Oceanography).

Summer semester 2024

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Semester: SS 2024 

Hodapp, Dorothee ; Roca, Irene T. ; Fiorentino, Dario ; Garilao, Cristina ; Kaschner, Kristin ; Kesner-Reyes, Kathleen ; Schneider, Birgit ; Segschneider, Joachim ; Kocsis, Ádám T. ; Kiessling, Wolfgang ; Brey, Thomas ; Froese, Rainer:
Climate change disrupts core habitats of marine species .
In: Global Change Biology (2023), Nr. 00, S. 1-14
Stichwörter:  marine biodiversity; climate change; environmental niche models; habitat suitability; climate projections; RCP
[doi>10.1111/gcb.16612]

Heinemann, Malte ; Segschneider, Joachim ; Schneider, Birgit:
CO2 drawdown due to particle ballasting by glacial aeolian dust: an estimate based on the ocean carbon cycle model MPIOM/HAMOCC version 1.6.2p3 .
In: Geoscientific Model Development 12 (2019), S. 1869-1883

Segschneider, Joachim ; Schneider, Birgit ; Khon, Vyacheslav:
Climate and marine biogeochemistry during the Holocene from transient model simulations .
In: Biogeosciences 15 (2018), S. 3243–3266
[doi>10.5194/bg-15-3243-2018]

Xu, Xu ; Segschneider, Joachim ; Schneider, Birgit ; Park, Wonsun ; Latif, Mojib:
Oxygen minimum zone variations in the tropical Pacific during the Holocene .
In: Geophysical Research Letters 42 (2015), S. 8530–8537
Stichwörter:  paleoceanography; numerical modeling; oxygen minimum zones
[doi>10.1002/2015GL064680]

Khon, Vyacheslav ; Wang, Yiming ; Krebs-Kanzow, U. ; Kaplan, J.O. ; Schneider, Ralph ; Schneider, Birgit:
Climate and CO2 effects on the vegetation of southern tropical Africa over the last 37,000 years .
In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2014), Nr. 403, S. 407-417

Zinke, J. ; Pfeiffer, M. ; Park, Wonsun ; Schneider, Birgit ; Reuning, L. ; Dullo, Wolf-Christian ; Camoin, G. F. ; Mangini, A. ; Schroeder-Ritzrau, A. ; Garbe-Schönberg, C.-Dieter ; Davies, G.R.:
Seychelles coral record of changes in sea surface temperature bimodality in the western Indian Ocean from the Mid-Holocene to the present .
In: Climate Dynamics (2014),
[doi>10.1007/s00382-014-2082-z]

Jin, L. ; Schneider, Birgit ; Park, Wonsun ; Latif, Mojib ; Khon, Vyacheslav ; Zhang, X.:
The spatial-temporal patterns of Asian summer monsoon precipitation in response to Holocene insolation change: a model-data synthesis .
In: Quaternary Science Reviews (2014), Nr. 85, S. 47-62

Lunt, D.J. ; Abe-Ouchi, A. ; Bakker, P. ; Berger, A. ; Braconnot, P. ; Charbit, S. ; Fischer, N. ; Herold, N. ; Jungclaus, J.H. ; Khon, Vyacheslav ; Krebs-Kanzow, U. ; Langebroek, P.M. ; Lohmann, G. ; Nisancioglu, K.H. ; Otto-Bliesner, B.L. ; Schneider, Birgit ; Stone, E.J. ; Takahashi, K. ; Wei, W. ; Yin, Q. ; Zhang, Z.S.:
A multi-model assessment of last interglacial temperatures .
In: Climate of the Past 9 (2013), S. 699-717
[doi>10.5194/cp-9-699-2013]

Cocco, V. ; Joos, F. ; Steinacher, M. ; Frölicher, T.L. ; Bopp, L. ; Dunne, J. ; Gehlen, M. ; Heinze, C. ; Orr, J. ; Oschlies, Andreas ; Schneider, Birgit ; Segschneider, Joachim ; Tjiputra, J.:
Oxygen and indicators of stress for marine life in multi-model global warming projections .
In: Biogeosciences 10 (2013), S. 1849-1868
[doi>10.5194/bg-10-1849-2013]

Sarnthein-Lotichius, Johann Michael ; Schneider, Birgit ; Grootes, Pieter:
Peak glacial 14C ventilation ages suggest major draw-down of carbon into the abyssal ocean .
In: Climate of the Past 9 (2013), S. 2595-2614
[doi>10.5194/cp-9-2595-2013]

Zhang, Xiaoyong ; Prange, M. ; Steph, S. ; Butzin, M. ; Krebs-Kanzow, Uta ; Lunt, D. J. ; Nisancioglu, K. H. ; Park, Wonsun ; Schmittner, A. ; Schneider, Birgit ; Schulz, M.:
Changes in equatorial Pacific thermocline depth in response to Panamanian seaway closure: Insight from a multi-model study .
In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters 317-318 (2012), S. 76-84
[doi>10.1016/j.epsl.2011.11.028]

Salau, O.R.S. ; Schneider, Birgit ; Park, Wonsun ; Khon, Vyacheslav ; Latif, Mojib:
Modeling the ENSO impact of orbitally induced mean state climate changes .
In: Journal of Geophysical Research 117 (2012), Nr. C05043,
[doi>10.1029/2011JC007742]

Khon, Vyacheslav ; Park, Wonsun ; Latif, Mojib ; Mokhov, I.I. ; Schneider, Birgit:
Tropical circulation and hydrological cycle response to orbital forcing .
In: Geophysical Research Letters 39 (2012), Nr. L15708,
[doi>10.1029/2012GL052482]

Krebs-Kanzow, Uta ; Park, Wonsun ; Schneider, Birgit:
Pliocene aridification of Australia caused by tectonically induced weakening of the Indonesian throughflow .
In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 309 (2011), Nr. 1-2, S. 111-117
[doi>10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.06.002]

Roy, T. ; Bopp, L. ; Gehlen, M. ; Schneider, Birgit ; Cadule, P. ; Frölicher, T.L. ; Segschneider, Joachim ; Tjiputra, J. ; Heinze, C. ; Joos, F.:
Regional Impacts of Climate Change and Atmospheric CO(2) on Future Ocean Carbon Uptake: A Multimodel Linear Feedback Analysis .
In: Journal of Climate 24 (2011), Nr. 9, S. 2300-2318
[doi>10.1175/2010JCLI3787.1]

Schneider, Birgit ; Leduc, Guillaume ; Park, Wonsun:
Disentangling seasonal signals in Holocene climate trends by satellite-model-proxy integration .
In: Paleoceanography (2010), Nr. 25, S. PA4217
Stichwörter:  model-data comparison, paleoproxy sensitivity, orbital forcing Holocene.
[doi>10.1029/2009PA001893]

Schneider, Birgit ; Schneider, Ralph:
Palaeoclimate: Global warmth with little extra CO2 .
In: Nature Geoscience 3 (2010), S. 6-7
[doi>10.1038/ngeo736]

Steinacher, M ; Joos, F. ; Frölicher, T.L. ; Bopp. L. ; Cadule, P. ; Cocco, V. ; Doney, S.C. ; Gehlen, M. ; Lindsay, K. ; Moore, J.K. ; Schneider, Birgit ; Segschneider, Joachim:
Projected 21st century decrease in marine productivity: a multi-model analysis .
In: Biogeosciences 7 (2010), S. 979-1005

Khon, Vyacheslav ; Park, Wonsun ; Latif, Mojib ; Mokhov, I.I. ; Schneider, Birgit:
Response of the hydrological cycle to orbital and greenhouse gas forcing .
In: Geophysical Research Letters (2010), Nr. 37, S. L19705
[doi>10.1029/2010GL044377]

Sarnthein-Lotichius, Johann Michael ; Prange, M. ; Schmittner, A. ; Schneider, Birgit ; Weinelt, Mara:
Mid-Pliocene shifts in ocean overturning circulation and the onset of Quaternary-style climates .
In: Climate of the Past Discussions 5 (2009), S. 269-283

Schneider, Birgit ; Bopp, L. ; Gehlen, M.:
Assessing the sensitivity of modeled air-sea CO2 exchange to the remineralization depth of particulate organic and inorganic carbon .
In: Global Biogeochemical Cycles 22 (2008),
[doi>10.1029/2007GB003100]

Schneider, Birgit ; Bopp, L. ; Gehlen, M. ; Segschneider, Joachim ; Frölicher, T.L. ; Cadule, P. ; Friedlingstein, P. ; Doney, S.C. ; Behrenfeld, M.J. ; Joos, F.:
Climate-induced interannual variability of marine primary and export production in three global coupled climate carbon cycle models .
In: Biogeosciences 5 (2008), S. 597–614

Gangstø, R. ; Gehlen, M. ; Schneider, Birgit ; Bopp, L. ; Aumont, O. ; Joos, F.:
Modeling the marine aragonite cycle: changes under rising carbon dioxide and its role in shallow water CaCO3 dissolution. in a biogeochemical ocean model .
In: Biogeosciences 5 (2008), Nr. 4, S. 1057-1072

Schneider, Birgit ; Latif, Mojib ; Schmittner, A.:
Evaluation of different methods to assess model projections of the future evolution of the Atlantic Meridional Overtuning Circulation .
In: Journal of Climate 20 (2007), Nr. 10, S. 2121-2132
[doi>10.1175/JCLI4128.1]

Schneider, Birgit ; Latif, Mojib ; Schmittner, A.:
Evaluation of different methods to assess model projections of the future evolution of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation .
In: Journal of Climate 20 (2007), S. 2121-2132
Stichwörter:  [FB1/ME] ; Klima
[doi>10.1175/JCLI4128.1]

Gehlen, M. ; Gangstø, R. ; Schneider, Birgit ; Bopp, L. ; Aumont, O. ; Ethe, C.:
The Fate of pelagic CaCO3 production in a high CO2 ocean: A Model Study .
In: Biogeosciences 4 (2007), Nr. 4, S. 505-519

Schneider, Birgit ; Schmittner, A.:
Simulating the impact of the Panamanian seaway closure on ocean circulation, marine productivity and nutrient cycling .
In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters 246 (2006), S. 367-380

Schmittner, A. ; Sarnthein-Lotichius, Johann Michael ; Kinkel, Hanno ; Bartoli, G. ; Bickert, T. ; Crucifix,, M. ; Crudeli, D. ; Groeneveld, J. ; Kösters, F. ; Mikolajewicz, U. ; Millo, C. ; Reijmer, J. ; Schäfer, Priska ; Schmidt, Daniela ; Schneider, Birgit ; Schulz, M. ; Steph, S. ; Tiedemann, R. ; Weinelt, Mara ; Zuvela, M.:
Global impact of the Panamanian seaway closure .
In: EOS 85 (2005), Nr. 49, S. 526

Schneider, Birgit ; Karstensen, Johannes ; Oschlies, Andreas ; Schlitzer, R.:
Model based evaluation of methods to determine C:N and N:P regeneration ratios from dissolved nutrients .
In: Global Biogeochemical Cycles 19 (2005), Nr. 2,
[doi>10.1029/2004GB002256]

Schmittner, A. ; Latif, Mojib ; Schneider, Birgit:
Model projections of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation for the 21st century assessed by observations .
In: Geophysical Research Letters 32 (2005), S. L23710
Stichwörter:  Thermohaline circulation; North Atlantic; [FB1/ME]
[doi>10.1029/2005GL024368]

Schmittner, A. ; Latif, Mojib ; Schneider, Birgit:
Model Projections of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation of the 21st century assessed by observations .
In: Geophysical Research Letters 32 (2005), Nr. 23,
[doi>10.1029/2005GL024368]

Schneider, Birgit ; Karstensen, Johannes ; Oschlies, Andreas ; Schlitzer, R.:
Model-based evaluation of methods to determine C:N and N:P regeneration ratios from dissolved nutrients .
In: Global Biogeochemical Cycles 19 (2005), S. GB2009
Stichwörter:  [FB1/PO]; [FB2/BM]
[doi>10.1029/2004GB002256]

Schneider, Birgit ; Engel, A. ; Schlitzer, R.:
Effects of depth- and CO2-dependent C:N ratios of particulate organic matter (POM) on the marine carbon cycle .
In: Global Biogeochemical Cycles 18 (2004),
[doi>10.1029/2003GB002184]

Schneider, Birgit ; Schlitzer, G. ; Fischer, G. ; Nöthig, E.-M.:
Depth-dependent elemental compositions of particulate organic matter (POM) in the ocean. .
In: Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17 (2003), Nr. 2, S. 1032
[doi>10.1029/2002GB001871]

Schneider, Birgit:
Variable C:N ratios of particulate organic matter and their influence on the marine carbon cycle .
In: Reports on Polar and Marine Research 437 (2003), S. 1-98

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