Current projects

MOSSCO Modular System for Shelves and Coasts
Collaboration with Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) and Federal Waterways Agency (BAW)
Funded by BMBF Apr 2013 – Mar 2016 MOSSCO

DynaTrait Flexibility matters: Interplay between trait diversity and ecological dynamics using aquatic communities as model systems
Collaboration with Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel Geomar
Funded by DFG Priority Program 1704 Oct 2014 - Sep 2017 DynaTrait

BIOACID Biological Impacts of Ocean ACIDification
Collaboration with Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel Geomar
Funded by BMBF Oct 2012 – Sep2015 BIOACID

WIMO Wissenschaftliche Monitoringkonzepte für die Deutsche Bucht
Funded by State/Land Niedersachsen Feb 2010 – Feb 205
WIMO

CSC China Scholarship Council
PhD stipend Changjin Zhao
Funded Ministry of Education / China Scholarship Council Sep 2014 - Feb 2018

HEC Pre- and Protohistoric technological evolution and anthropogenic environmental impact
PhD stipend Aurangzeb Khan
Funded by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan Dec 2009 - Apr 2013

Tubitak Reconstructing jellyfish related ecosystem dynamics with a model based comparison of the German Bight and the North Western Shelf of the Black Sea ecosystems
Collaboration with Middle East Technical University (METU)
PhD stipend Nusret Sevinc
Funded by a joint fellowship programme of The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft (HGF) Sep 2010 - Aug 2013

PACE The future of the Wadden Sea sediment fluxes: still keeping pace with the sea level rise?
Funded by Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO) and BMBF Oct 2011 – Sep 2014 IOW Warnemuende, Project PACE