KOSMOS (Kiel Off-Shore Mesocosms for Ocean Simulations)

General information

Legal name of organisation

GEOMAR-Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel

Country

Germany

Continent

Europe

Organisation address

GEOMAR-Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research

West shore campus
Düsternbrooker Weg 20
D-24105 Kiel

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

Primary contact information (PI)

Professor Ulf Riebesell (KOSMOS)

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Years of Mesocosm Experiments

Description of Facility

off-shore/outdoor/indoor – pelagic/benthic – marine/brackish

Kiel-KOSMOS
outdoor mobile – pelagic – marine/brackish
9 floatting structures of 50 m³ (emerging part : 2.5 m high, 2.8 m Ø. submerged part : 17 m high, 2 m Ø)

Controlled Parameters

KOSMOS: CO₂, nutrients

Research Topics

KOSMOS: phytoplankton, zooplankton, chemistry, biogeochemistry, ecology

Facility location(s)

54.330034,10.1482026

Primary interests

Specialist areas

Equipment

KOSMOS: mobile meoscosm structure can be installed on any study site, transportation with RVs and/or in standard 20 and 40-foot containers.

Lodging

Source of Information

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

Media report: Window on future ocean

Photos of experiments/installations

KOSMOS mesocosms deployed in Raunefjord off Bergen, Norway in 2011

KOSMOS deployment with the Spanish research vessel „Hesprides“ off Gran Canaria in 2014

Sampling of the KOSMOS mesocosms during an experiment on the effects of ocean acidification off Gran Canaria in 2014