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Main Research Focus

Hustedt Diatom Study Center
Sea Ice Ecology and Sea Ice Biogeochemistry
Molecular Sea Ice Ecology
Phyto- and Protistplankton Ecology in the Southern Ocean
Ecophysiology of Pelagic Key Species
Arctic Zooplankton
Molecular Biodiversity of Eukaryotic Microbes
Arctic Plankton Ecology and related sedimentary Flux under Climate Change
Planktonic Particle Dynamics

Last update: 22.01.2018
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