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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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Changing habitats of calcareous plankton in the Greenhouse World

Projektleitung:Dr. rer. nat. Joachim Schönfeld
Beteiligte:Dipl.-Geol. Almuth Harbers, Prof. Dr. Frank Melzner, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ulf Riebesell, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Wolf-Christian Dullo, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Anton Eisenhauer, Dr. rer. nat. Hanno Kinkel, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Wolfgang Kuhnt, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Michael Kucera
Förderer:Exzellenzcluster "Ozean der Zukunft"
Mitwirkende
Institutionen:
Universität Kiel
Universität Tübingen
Laufzeit:1.9.2007 - 30.8.2009
Inhalt und Ziele:The objectives of our research project are to document historical changes in the assemblage composition and habitat depth of calcareous planktonic organisms in relation to changes in the physical and chemical parameters and stratification of the surface ocean due to recent global warming. Changes in the size, weight, chemical, and isotopic composition of carbonate shells are to be assessed. The main focus of the investigation is on planktonic foraminifers and pteropods.

SFB754 - A7: Ursachen und zeitlicher Verlauf von Einsetzen und Ausbreitung anoxischer Verhältnisse im Kreide-Ozean

Projektleitung:Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Wolfgang Kuhnt, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Klaus Wallmann
Förderer:Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Laufzeit:1.1.2008 - 31.12.2011
Inhalt und Ziele:Einsetzen und Ausbreitung kretazischer anoxischer Events sollen als Modell für zukünftige Änderungen des Ozeansystems aufgrund globaler Erwärmung und Meeresspiegelanstiegs untersucht werden. Der genaue zeitliche und räumliche Ablauf der Ausbreitung der Anoxia sowie mögliche Rückkopplungsmechanismen wie die Freisetzung von Nährstoffen durch kontinentale Verwitterung und marine Anoxia sollen hochauflösend in den Anfangsphasen der beiden bedeutendsten kretazischen anoxischen Ereignisse (OAE1a im Unter-Apt ~119 Ma und OAE2 im Ober-Cenoman ~94 Ma) rekonstruiert werden. Zusätzlich sollen Klimamodelle und biogeochemische Ozeanmodelle eingesetzt werden, um Nährstoff-, Kohlenstoff- und Sauerstoff-Budgets des Kreide-Ozeans unter Berücksichtigung verschiedener orbitaler Konfigurationen besser zu verstehen. Endziel des Projekts ist es, die auslösenden Faktoren, den zeitlichen Ablauf, und biogeochemische Rückkopplungsmechanismen eines rasch anoxisch werdenden Weltozeans zu untersuchen und damit ein Extremszenario der möglichen zukünftigen Entwicklung besser zu verstehen.

SOCOZA: Dynamics of the Subtropical Convergence Zone off southern Australia

Projektleitung:Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dirk Nürnberg, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Wolfgang Kuhnt, Dr. rer. nat. Ralf Tiedemann, Dr. rer. nat. Joachim Schönfeld
Förderer:Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Mitwirkende
Institutionen:
Institut für Geowissenschaften der Universität Kiel
Stichwörter:Paleoceanography, micropalaeontology, sedimentology, geochemistry
Laufzeit:17.2.2003 - 16.2.2004
Inhalt und Ziele:The main scientific objective of SOCOZA is to reconstruct the surface oceanography and the dynamics of deep water masses during late Pleistocene glacial/interglacial cycles in the northern Australian sector of the Southern Ocean. We focus on the position, extent and strengths of the Subtropical Convergence Zone and the Leeuwin Current, and attempt to describe their Late Pleistocene variations in higher resolution and greater detail than it has been possible before. Emphasis is likewise given to ”Atlantic” and ”Pacific-type” carbonate preservation cycles, the varying influence of different deep water masses on glacial/interglacial timescales, and the flux of organic matter to the sea floor as link to surface ocean production history. We propose four new IMAGES cores to be collected on a forthcoming R/V”Marion Dufresne” cruise to attain the goals of this project. Two cores to the west of Tasmania and Tasman Rise shall combine ODP Sites 1168 and 1170 to a north-south transect and will enable to monitor the variations of the Subtropical Convergence Zone. The other two cores shall be retrieved to the south of Cape Pasley in the centre and at the southern limit of today’s Leeuwin Current. They will allow to describe the dynamics of the warm-water current and glacial incursions of the Subtropical Convergence into this area. The sites will cover a depth range from 2500 to 4200 m to ensure that glacial-interglacial carbonate preservation cycles can be monitored.
Kontakt:Nürnberg, Dirk
Telefon +49 431 600-2313, E-Mail: dnuernberg@geomar.de
Publikationen:
  1. Nürnberg, Dirk ; Brughmans, Natasja ; Schönfeld, Joachim ; Ninnemann, U. ; Dullo, Wolf-Christian:
    Paleo-export production, terrigenous flux and sea surface temperatures around Tasmania - implications for glacial/interglacial changes in the subtropical convergence Zone .
    In: Exon, N. ; Kennett, J. ; Malone, M. (Hrsg.) : The cenozoic southern ocean: tectonics, sedimentation and climate change between Australia and Antarctica.
    Washington, DC, USA : American Geophysical Union, 2004, (Geophysical Monograph Series Bd. 151), S. 291-318. - ISBN 0-87590-416-5
    Stichwörter:  [FB1/POZ]; [FB1/P-OZ]
  2. Nürnberg, Dirk ; Groeneveld, Jeroen:
    Pleistocene variability of the Subtropical Convergence at East Tasman Plateau - Evidence from planktonic foraminiferal Mg/Ca (ODP Site 1172A) .
    In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 7 (2006), Nr. 4, S. Q04P11
    Stichwörter:  [FB1/P-OZ]
    [doi>10.1029/2005GC000984]

VITAL: Indonesian Throughflow Variability and Australasian Climate History in the last 150.000 years

Projektleitung:Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Wolfgang Kuhnt
Beteiligte:Dr. Patrick DeDeckker, Dr. Franz Gingele, Dr. Ann Holbourn, Dr. Zhimin Jian, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dirk Nürnberg, Dr. Bradley Opdyke, Prof. Dr. Rolf Käse, Prof. Dr. Karl Stattegger
Förderer:Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Mitwirkende
Institutionen:
Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Kiel
IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel
Institut für Ostseeforschung, Warnemünde
Tongji Universität, Shanghai, China
University of Canberra, Australia
Stichwörter:Indonesian Throughflow; West Pacific Warm Pool; global thermohaline circulation; sea surface temperatures
Beginn:14.9.2005
Inhalt und Ziele:The impact of the Indonesian Throughflow and West Pacific Warm Pool on global climate is a key issue to understand the role of the tropics in global climate change. Today, the West Pacific Warm Pool plays a key role in regulating the Earth’s heat budget. The western continuation of the West Pacific Warm Pool gives rise to the Indonesian Throughflow, a narrow band of warm, low salinity water that transports excess heat and freshwater from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean through the Indonesian Gateway. The Indonesian Throughflow is regarded as one of the major switchboards in the global thermohaline circulation, and its variability influences global climate on short term (ENSOrelated) and longterm timescales. The heat export from the Pacific into the Indian Ocean substantially affects atmosphere-ocean coupling in the tropical Pacific and Indian Ocean and on a global scale. Changes in Indonesian Throughflow intensity would not only cause changes in global atmospheric circulation and affect mid-latitude wind systems, but would also influence interannual climate anomalies, such as the ENSO and southeast Asian monsoon systems. Main scientific objectives of the project include
  • to study hydrographic profiles within the main outflow
path (Timor Strait) of the Indonesian Throughflow,
  • to calibrate paleoceanographic proxies to core-top
sediment samples,
  • to reconstruct sea-surface temperature, salinity,
nutrients, export production and bottom currents in sediment cores retrieved along two transects across Timor Strait,
  • to monitor the Indonesian Throughflow variability on
sub-millenial to orbital timescales during the late Pleistocene, using calibrated paleoceanographic proxies,
  • to test predictions from modeling experiments of a
strongly reduced glacial Indonesian Throughflow and substantially different hydrographic profiles.
Kontakt:Kuhnt, Wolfgang
Telefon +49 431 880-2938, Fax +49 431 880-4376, E-Mail: wolfgang.kuhnt@ifg.uni-kiel.de
Publikationen:
  1. Zuraida, Rina ; Holbourn, Ann ; Nürnberg, Dirk ; Kuhnt, Wolfgang ; Dürkop, Anke ; Erichsen, A.:
    Evidence for Indonesian Throughflow slowdown during Heinrich events 3-5 .
    In: Paleoceanography 24 (2009), S. PA2205
    Stichwörter:  [FB1/P-OZ]
    [doi>10.1029/2008PA001653]
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