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Institut für Ostseeforschung an der Universität Rostock (IOW), Warnemünde 
(Baltic Sea Research Institute at Rostock University) 
GOOS related activity 
Module 
Research / 
operational 
Measuring data / products 
Users 
Measuring techniques 
Optimization of biological monitoring 
2 
Research 
Improved concepts and methods for the 
synoptic recording of pelagic and benthic 
biomass parameters 
Federal and state 
authorities, marine 
research institutions, 
RELCOM 
Active and passive fluorometric 
methods, underwater TV, image 
interpretation 
JGOFS Indian Ocean 
1,2 
Research 
Contribution to global budgeting and 
modelling of climate relevant components 
International bodies 
(IGBP), marine and 
climate research 
institutions 
Different In-sltu and laboratory 
measurements of various 
biogeochemlcal variables In water and 
sediment 
Recording of pelagic sedimentation in the Baltic 
Sea basins. 
Isotopes in the marine environment 
2 
Research 
Budgeting of particle export from the surface 
layer of the Baltic basins 
Marine institutions 
Measurement of pelagic 
sedimentation using sediment traps 
Investigations into land-ocean interaction processes 
within the framework of IGBP-LOICZ 
1,2,3,4 
Research 
Estimates of changes in fluxes and process 
chains between land and ocean due to 
anthropogenic Influences 
IGBP-LOICZ, 
marine, soil science 
and social science 
instit., politics, the 
public 
Measurement and modelling of 
various biogeochemlcal processes on 
different temporal and spatial scales