GEOMAR climate chambers
Corridor with climate chambers.
At GEOMAR, we run a total of 18 climate culture rooms (smallest 12 m2, the largest 44 m2) which can be set to temperatures between 2 and 40 °C. The culture rooms are equipped with a steady supply of filtered Baltic seawater from Kiel fjord which can be used for flow-through setups that allow for high replication of experimental treatments. Natural North Sea seawater and artificial seawater are available, too.
Electric power and pressurized air supply is available in all climate culture rooms. Nitrogen- and/or CO2-enriched air can be used for oxygen deficiency and ocean acidification research, or for algae fertiliziation. Controllable (height and intensity) LED bars provide light that allows for very good plant growth.
A separated area with 5 rooms was equipped (e.g. micro-filtered air, no drains in the floor) to allow for work at a higher hygiene standard (S1/S2, gnotobiotic work possible).
Plankton food for filter feeders is supplied by the KIMOCC Rhodomonas culture.
A variery of different experimental setups can be realized using shelves, aquariums and diverse other equipment in the climate chambers.
This typical re-circulation setup was used for a Brachiopoda culture experiment.
In plankton rotation devices evolution and interactions of plankton organisms can be studies in multi-generation experiments.
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