Climate-Culture Rooms (KIMOCC) - GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel

KIMOCC

The KIMOCC ('Kiel Marine Organism Culture Centre') is the central marine organism culture lab at GEOMAR. It provides access to modernly equipped climate culture rooms (chambers) as well as seawater for marine biological research. We develop, implement and publish state-of-the-art marine organism culture methods.

We serve marine research in Kiel by supporting complex experiments in the framework of the main topics of Global Change research.

[Translate to English:] Starfish in KIBs

[Translate to English:] Rhodomonas culture

[Translate to English:] Gigatidas childressi in culture

KIMOCC helps conducting experiments with marine organisms like e.g. micro- or macroalgae, seagrass, ctenophores, cnidaria, starfish, (deep-sea) bivalves or fish.

Main foci of KIMOCC:

acclimatization and adaptation of organisms to climate change
interaction of microbial communities and multicellular organisms

KIMOCC provides:

Administration and laboratory supervision of GEOMAR Climate Culture Rooms (Chambers)
Safety briefings for work in Climate Culture Rooms (Chambers) and access control
Development and implementation of state-of-the-art culture methods
Advice of scientists and students in planning and conducting culture experiments
Recent Kiel fjord marine environmental data

email: kimocc(at)geomar.de

CLICK HERE: Application for climate chamber space