Technical Infrastructure
In order to succesfully fulfil our research assignment in an efficient manner, we have equipment of high quality available.
We are always interested in national and international cooperations. Besides the current facilities (hard- and software; fully equipped laboratories), we are equipped with the following facilities:
Research vessels
equiped with the following scientific echo-sounders:
- Simrad EK60 (38 kHz, 120 kHz)
- 2 x Simrad EK500 (18 kHz, 38 kHz, 120 kHz and 38 kHz, 120 kHz)
- Simrad EA500
Ichthyoplankton (Eggs and larvae of fish)
- 2 x "Nackthai" (High speed plankton sampler with 280 µm mesh size)
- MIK (Methot-Isaac-Kidd-trawl) with 2 m diameter and 500 µm mesh size
Trawl nets
- 3 m beam trawl (for youngfish and brown shrimp)
- 7 m beam trawl
- GOV (Grand Ouverture Vertical; demersal trawl)
- KJN (Cod net; demersal trawl)
- 140 feet demersal trawl
- PSN205 (Pelagic trawl 205 m)
- PSN388 "Krake" (Pelagic trawl)
- RMT (Rectangular Midwater Trawl, Pelagic trawl for the application in the Atlantic part of the Antarctic (Krill)
- 1600 Mesh-net (Pelagic trawl 314 m)
- Gloria 1024 (Pelagic trawl)
- Multisampler (Multiple closing net with three codends and a programmable, battery driven release unit)
Oceanography
- CTD-sensor SBE911+ (Sea-bird Electronics, Inc)
- CTD-sensor SBE19+ (Sea-bird Electronics, Inc)
- Carousel Water Sampler SBE32 (Sea-bird Electronics, Inc)
- Carousel Water Sampler SBE32SC (Sea-bird Electronics, Inc)
Further equipment at the institute
Otoliths
- Wet abrasive cut-off machine Brillant 250 (ATM GmbH) for cutting otoliths in polyester resin (up to 300 otoliths per hour).
- Rotary cutting/grinding system EXAKT 340CL (EXAKT Advanced Technologies GmbH).
Plankton
- ZooScan - Laboratory device for the computer-aided identification of plankton organisms
Image analysis systems
- 2 Stereo microscopes type M80 with ergotubes and cameras type DFC-420 with 5-Megapixel-CCD-Chip (Leica companies). Software: Leica Application Suite (LAS).