Introduction
The meeting in Warnemünde continues a series of workshops that has
started more than a decade ago in Kastanienbaum near Lucerne
(Switzerland). The focus of the PPNW workshops is the physics of
lakes, covering a broad spectrum of scientific topics including
internal wave motion, turbulence and mixing, surface interactions,
bio-geochemical interactions, near-sediment processes, and many
more. PPNW is an open workshop, actively seeking the contact to
neighboring fields like physical oceanography, the atmospheric
sciences, and engineering. With 40-50 participants and a small number
of invited speakers, the PPNW meetings are characterized by their
active workshop atmosphere and a comfortable time frame for presentations
and discussion.
The venue of the workshop in 2007 is the Baltic Sea Research
Institute (IOW),
one of the key institutes of the German oceanographical research infrastructure. IOW is located in Warnemünde, a charming fishermen village at the beautiful shores of the
Baltic Sea. Nearby is the city of Rostock with its impressive historical center from the times of the Hanse trading union during the 13th and 14th century and one of the oldest universities in Northern Europe.
During the first day of the workshop, participants will undertake an excursion to Lake Stechlin north of Berlin, and visit the experimental facilities of the Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), the co-organizers of this workshop.
