Kiel Indoor Benthocosms (KIBs) to simulate environmental fluctuations

Name
Kiel-Indoor-Benthocosms (KIBs)
Legal name of organisation
GEOMAR-Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel
Country
Germany
Continent
Europe
Organisation address

GEOMAR-Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel

West shore campus
Düsternbrooker Weg 20
D-24105 Kiel

East shore campus
Wischhofstr. 1-3
D-24148 Kiel

Primary contact information (PI)

Dr. Christian Pansch

cpansch(at)geomar.de

Years of Mesocosm Experiments
Description of Facility

Indoor – Pelagic/Benthic – Marine/Brackish

Indoor (air-conditioned rooms) infrastructure consisting of 12 independent 600 liter tanks. Based on a computer controlled system, artificial fluctuations of diverse parameters can be simulated in through-flowing seawater

Controlled Parameters

temperature, salinity, pH and irradiation (oxygen in progress)

Research Topics

Variability impacts from: temperature, salinity, pH and irradiation (oxygen in progress) – from single species to communities

Facility location(s)
54.330034, 10.148140
Primary interests
Specialist areas

fluctuation scearios in flow through systems

Equipment

12 independent experimental units (infinite subunits in these tanks), heaters, coolers, automated, heat exchangers, internal circulation, flow through system, programmable climate simulation

Lodging
Source of Information

http://www.geomar.de/en/

Media report: Window on future ocean

Pansch, C. and Hiebenthal, C. (2019), A new mesocosm system to study the effects of environmental variability on marine species and communities. Limnol Oceanogr Methods, 17: 145-162. https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10306 

Photos of experiments/installations

 

 

Photo: Christian Pansch
Photo: Christian Pansch
Drawings: Dar Golomb & Christian Pansch
Drawings: Dar Golomb & Christian Pansch
Graphic: Christian Pansch