Uwe Kils

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Uwe Kils

Uwe Kils (b. July 10, 1951Template:Fn) is a German marine biologist specializing in planktology. He received a Habilitation and the venia legendi in marine and fisheries biology from the University of Kiel.

Born in FlensburgTemplate:Fn in Schleswig-Holstein, he studied at the Institute of Oceanography at the University of Kiel under Gotthilf Hempel. His Ph.D. work on the metabolism and behavior of krill[1], for which he participated in an expedition to Antarctica, won him the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize[2] in 1979, together with Jan Backhaus. It also led to the development of various instruments for in situ observation of the underwater fauna for field research, including the ecoSCOPE[3] designed by him. Later work at Kiel included the study of predator-prey interactions of juvenile herring and plankton, for which a floating laboratory called ATOLL[4] was developed and deployed in the Bay of Kiel. Work there led to the discovery of severe case of oxygen depletion Template:Inote and to Kils' involvement in an initiative to repopulate the Flensburg Fjord with herring[5] as part of the project "Saubere Ostsee" ("Clean Baltic"). His work was honored by the Heisenberg Fellowship.

Subsequently, Kils was invited by the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University, where he became an associate professor in 1994. Kils retired 2005Template:Fn and is now active setting up on-line courses in oceanography and marine biology at projects like Wikiversity.

References

  1. ^ Kils, U.: "Swimming Behavior, Swimming Performance, and Energy Balance of Antarctic Krill Euphausia superba", translation of Ph.D. thesis in German from 1979, College Station, Texas; 1981.
  2. ^ List of winners of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 1978 - 2003, from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) ("German Research Society").
  3. ^ Kils, U.: The ecoSCOPE and dynIMAGE: microscale tools for in situ studies of predator-prey interactions. Arch Hydrobiol Beih 36: 83-96.
  4. ^ Kils, U.: The ATOLL Laboratory and other Instruments Developed at Kiel; U.S. GLOBEC NEWS Technology Forum Number 8: 6-9.
  5. ^ Mentioned at [6] and at [7].

Footnotes

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