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Mainbuilding of the IOW

The Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW for Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde) was founded in 1992 in accordance with a recommendation of the German Scientific Council. It succeeded the Institute for Marine Research Warnemünde, which as a member of the Academy of Science was for decades the most important institution for marine research in the GDR. The scientific programme of the new institute was dedicated to the Baltic Sea ecosystem.

The IOW has four departments representing the disciplines of physical oceanography, marine chemistry, biological oceanography and marine geology. An instrumentation group is affiliated with the Department of Physical Oceanography. Jointly the departments work on a long-term research programme.

The Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research is a member of the Science Association Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. It is jointly funded by the federal government and the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and is associated with Rostock University where the IOW department heads contribute to the teaching of biology, chemistry and physics. The two professors in the department of marine geology teach at Greifswald University.

The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency in Hamburg (BSH) has entrusted the IOW with the Baltic Sea Monitoring Programme to which the Federal Republic of Germany together with the other countries bordering the Baltic Sea committed themselves in the Helsinki convention (http://www.helcom.fi/).

Since 1997 the director of IOW is Prof. Dr. Bodo v. Bodungen.

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   Some figures (Basing on the dates of December 2004)

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