Wolfgang Fennel

Wolfgang Fennel

Head of the Section of Physical Oceanography
and Instrumentation

Position held:
Deputy director of the IOW, head of the section of physical oceanography and instrumentation of the IOW, Professor at the University of Rostock

Key Qualifications:
Theoretical Physics and Physical Oceanography, Ph.D., Habilitation

Research Fields:
Regional and theoretical oceanography, coupling of physics and marine biology, interdisciplinary modelling

Employment:

1994 - Appointment as professor of physical oceanography at the University of Rostock

1992 - Deputy director, head of section of physical oceanography and instrumentation at the Institute for Baltic Sea Research, IOW

1990 - 1991 Deputy director at the Institute for Marine Research in Warnemünde (German Academy of Sciences)

1976 - 1990 Research assistant at the Institute for Marine Research in Warnemünde

1971 - 1976 Assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Rostock

International activities:

1988 Guest Professor at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden)

1994 Convener of an ICES modelling workshop on HAB's in Vigo (Spain)

1995 Guest Professor at the Nansen Center in Bergen (Norway)

1996 Visiting Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA)

1998 - 2002 Vice President of SCOR

1999 - 2007 Member of the GEOHAB SSC

2004 Editor of the Journal of Marine Systems

2008 SCOR President

Full List of Publications ( .pdf)

Selected Publications:

Books:
FENNEL, W. and H. U. LASS, 1989: "Analytical theory of forced oceanic waves", Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 312 pp.

FENNEL, W. and T. NEUMANN, 2004: "Introduction to the modelling of marine ecosystems", Elsevier Oceanographic Series 72, Amsterdam, 297 pp.

Articles:
FENNEL,W., 1999: " Theory of the Benguela Upwelling System" Jour. Phys. Oceanography, 29, 177-190.

HUMBORG, C.; K. FENNEL; M. PASTUSZAK and W. FENNEL, 2000: "A box model approach for long-term assessment of estuarine eutrophication, Szczecin Lagoon, southern Baltic" Jour. Mar. Systems, 25 387 - 403.

FENNEL, W. and T.NEUMANN, 2001: "Coupling Biology and Oceanograpy in Models" Ambio, 30, 232-236.

FENNEL,W., 2001: " Modeling of copepods with links to circulation model" Journal of Plankton Research, 23, 1217-1232.

NEUMANN, T., W.FENNEL, and C. KREMP, 2002: "Experimental simulations with an ecosystem model of the Baltic Sea: a nutrient load reduction experiment" Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 16, 7-1 to 7-19.

FENNEL,W., 2003: " Waves in the ocean" Encyclopedia of life support systems (EOLSS): http://www.eolss.net/. Oxford, EOLSS Publ.: Article 4.20.1.6.2.

FENNEL, W. and T.NEUMANN, 2003: "Variability of copepods as seen in a coupled physical biological model of the Baltic Sea" ICES Marine Science Symposia, 219, 208-219.

KUHRTS, CH., W. FENNEL and T.SEIFERT, 2004: "Model studies of transports of sedimentary material in the western Baltic" Jour. Mar. Systems, 52 , 167-190.

FENNEL, W. and T. OSBORN, 2005: "A unifying framework for marine ecological model comparison", Deep Sea Res. II, 52, 1344-1357.

NEUMANN,T., and W. FENNEL, 2006: "A method to represent vertical migration of Zooplankton in 3D-Eulerian Models", Ocean Modelling, 12, 188-204.

FENNEL, W. and H.U.LASS, 2007:" On the impact of wind curls on coastal currents" Jour. Mar. Systems, 68 ,128-142.

FENNEL, W., 2008: "Parameterizations of truncated food web models from the perspective of an end-to-end model approach" Jour. Mar. Syst. doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2008.05.005.

FENNEL, W.,2009: "Towards bridging biogeochemical and fish production models" Jour. Mar. Systems, doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2007.06.008, 71 , 171-194.

Address: Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde (IOW)
an der Universität Rostock
Seestrasse 15
D-18119 Rostock

Telephone: +49 (381) 5197 110

Fax: +49 (381) 5197 114

e-mail: wolfgang.fennel@io-warnemuende.de

1994 -	Appointment as professor of physical oceanography at the University of Rostock
1992 -	Deputy director, head of section of physical oceanography and instrumentation at the Institute for Baltic Sea Research, IOW
1990 - 1991	Deputy director at the Institute for Marine Research in Warnemünde (German Academy of Sciences)
1976 - 1990	Research assistant at the Institute for Marine Research in Warnemünde
1971 - 1976	Assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Rostock

1988	Guest Professor at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
1994	Convener of an ICES modelling workshop on HAB's in Vigo (Spain)
1995	Guest Professor at the Nansen Center in Bergen (Norway)
1996	Visiting Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA)
1998 - 2002	Vice President of SCOR
1999 - 2007	Member of the GEOHAB SSC
2004	Editor of the Journal of Marine Systems
2008	SCOR President

Address:	Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde (IOW) an der Universität Rostock Seestrasse 15 D-18119 Rostock

Telephone:	+49 (381) 5197 110
Fax:	+49 (381) 5197 114
e-mail:	wolfgang.fennel@io-warnemuende.de