Equipment

High-quality research on complex environmental issues requires advanced technology. The Institute for Applied Ecology houses wide-ranging research equipment:

Equipment for sediment- and benthoslogical analyses:

• Underwater videographic system, including GPS and sonar (Kordian, Mariscope, MBT)
• remote-controlled underwater videographic system
• van Veen grab
• Ekman-Birge grab
• Günther-corer with weights
• manually operated Günther-corer
• sample boxes
• sieves in different screen sizes
• water samplers
• instruments for determining oxygen concentration, salinity, temperature, pH
• dive sampling equipment (according to DIN EN 250) including underwater camera

Underwater videographic system, including GPS and sonar (Kordian, Mariscope, MBT)

• beam trawl
• dredges
• trawl nets, gillnets, funnel nets

Equipment for ornithological studies:

• VARS (Visual Automatic Recording System) 
• Bird Scan (fixed pencil-beam radar)
• marine surveillance radar

Computer equipment:

• in-house network with servers and backup systems
• 45 desktops, including 3 GIS computers
• various statistical packages

Vehicles:

• 2 cars 
• 2 vans
• 2 boats with outboard motors
• 2 boats trailers