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KIMMCO-Team

The project’s kick-off meeting took place on 28 July 2025 at GEOMAR in Kiel. Photo: Frank Melzner, GEOMAR

The KIMMCO team and affiliated partners

KIMMCO-Team (in alphabetical order):

Prof. Dr. Hermann Bange
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Chemical Oceanography, WP2

Prof. Dr. Anja Engel
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Biological Oceanography project lead & WP1 & WP2

Sandra Golde
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Biological Oceanography, WP2

Dr. Helmke Hepach
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Biological Oceanography, WP1 & WP2

Prof. Dr. Rainer Kiko
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Biological Oceanography, WP2

Dr. Gülce Kurtay
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Biological Oceanography, WP2

Prof. Dr. Kevin Köser
Kiel University, Institute for Informatic, Marine Data Science, WP3

Prof. Dr. Olaf Landsiedel
Hamburg University of Technology, Networked Cyber Physical Systems, WP 2

Prof. Dr. Natascha Oppelt
Kiel University, Institute of Geography, Earth Observation and Modelling, WP3

Dr. Frauke Pescheck
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Biological Oceanography, WP1

Dr. Timm Schoening
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Information-, Data and Computing Centre, WP4

Dr. Ulrike Schroller-Lomnitz
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Informations-, Daten- und Rechenzentrum, WP4

Dr. Tobias Steinhoff
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Biological Oceanography, WP2

Dr. Tayyaba Zainab
Kiel University, Institute for Informatic, Distributed Systems, WP2

 

KIMMCO-affiliated partners

Landesamt für Umwelt (LfU) Schleswig-Holstein
Dr Stefan Krause (Head of Coastal Waters)
As the competent authority for monitoring, the LfU will support the implementation of the monitoring methods developed and provide access to historical monitoring data on phytoplankton (microscopy) and metadata.

bbe Moldaenke (KMU)
Christian Moldaenke (Project Lead), Dr Tobias Boehme (Research and Development)
bbe Moldanke will supply sensor technology for measuring phytoplankton biomass and functional phytoplankton groups, as well as for the Chl a/pigment validation of satellite data from the AI product (3).

4H Jena (KMU)
Dr Maik Grunwald (Head of Research and Development)
4H Jena will support the mapping of biodiversity within the plankton community in German coastal waters and the integration of established and new automated methods for assessing plankton biodiversity using artificial intelligence.

 

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