Student courses
identification of macroalgae from Helgoland rocky shores
Two lecture rooms, offering 20 and 25 modern workplaces, are provided at no cost for teaching purposes to academic courses and workshops. Each workplace has a microscope, stereo-microscope, and cold source lamp. In addition, up to 10 phase contrast and polarisation microscopes can be used. A diverse supply of materials for working with living organisms, e.g. trays, aquaria, and glassware, are provided. Dissection tools and laboratory consumables have to be supplied by the courses themselves.
Several tanks with seawater connections are located in each lecture room, for cultivation of living organisms in a flow-through system. An additional cultivation room is provided in the basement of the Institute. Both lecture rooms have a small library (ca. 100 books), comprising the most pertinent identification keys and mainly phycology and ecology text books. An up-to-date media system is available in the lecture rooms, composed of a computer with internet connection and projector, a video-connected microscope, stereo-microscope, and imager.
Special paper and drying ovens are provided for those courses, which prepare herbariums on field collected algae. If required, courses can use a ca. 4m² constant-temperature room with seawater connection and a laboratory of basic configuration (photometer, scale, extractor hood). Laboratory and fume hood use is compulsory if work with dangerous substances is planned (please download the ‘Bulletin for handling chemical substances’). We kindly ask course instructors to register their requirements for the constant-temperature room and the laboratory well in advance. Please contact Mrs. Margret Krüß (margret.kruess@awi.de, Tel.: +49 4725-819 3212) for the organisation of technical affairs.
Application and selection
students working in one of the course rooms
Please download the application form (word), and send the completed form to the scientific organiser Dr. Molis (markus.molis(at)awi.de, Tel. +49 4725-819 3239). Due to long-term planning of course arrangements at universities, we kindly request receipt of application material until the end of March the year before the intended stay, i.e. applications for courses in 2008 should be made until March 2007. Course instructors will be informed in April 2007 if the course is scheduled as applied. Selection criteria include the quality of and willingness of applicants to provide a final report (e.g. poster, protocol). An application with fixed course dates can only be considered if accompanied by an explanatory statement. Applications for open dates are always possible. Please refer to 2013 short notice schedules. Please note that no courses can be held in 2012 due to planned renovations.
Accommodation
Supervisors can make accommodation reservations for their courses in the Institute’s guest house (Wilhelm-Mielck-House, 21 double and 9 single, ready-furnished rooms, including sheets and towels at a cost of 9.00 € per night). The guest house offers two fully equipped kitchens for self-catering, a dining-hall, and a television room. Please contact Mrs. Böhmer for further information (kathrin.boehmer(at)awi.de, Tel.: +49 4725-819 3282).
The institute can provide a computer with projector, converting the dining hall into a suitable place for small conferences and meetings.
guest house
kitchen in the guest house
Supply of biological material
Courses can collect organisms (species list) from the intertidal. Please note that large parts of the intertidal are inaccessible throughout the bird breeding season, i.e. from March to August. For safety reasons, it is strongly recommended not to access the intertidal shores from 1 November to 31 March (season with highest risk of rock fall). Due to the ubiquitous risk of rock fall, the sandstone cliffs have to be quickly passed at the largest possible distance. Hardhats (provided by the marine station) are required during these excursions. Prior to each excursion, hardhats need to be checked for damage and proper fit, and have to be used already at some distance to the cliffs. Please read the safety and conservation guidelines and inform your courses accordingly. Pelagic and sublittoral organisms can be collected from board of the research vessel ‘Aade’ or the research diver team, respectively. Please indicate at least two weeks in advance of your stay how many and which organisms you require, by sending an email to Dr. Molis (markus.molis(at)awi.de Tel. +49 4725-819 3239). Trawl, dredge, and grab samples may be taken from board of the research vessel ‘Uthörn’ (please check appropriate box in the application form). Entire courses can be taken out on a cruise for demonstration of ship-based sampling methods in marine and fisheries biology.