Bluecomment project

Since 2005 I am working in the RAGO (tiefe RAndströme im östlichen Gotlandbecken der Ostsee) project as a PhD student, led by Dr. Eberhard Hagen. The project is investigating spatiotemporal scales of the deep boundary currents in the Eastern Gotland Basin of the Baltic Sea. The Eastern Gotland Basin is the largest and deepest basin of the Baltic Sea and has a permanent halocline. By investigating these spatiotemporal scales the influence of the Stolpe Channel can not be neglected and it is thought to play a large part. The changes in the deep water circulation are studied by comparing the obtained time series (moored current meters, ADCPS) with model simulations resulting from the numerical model MOM4. This project is located in the department "Physical Oceanography and Instrumentation" at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW).

SEaOS Project

Between September and November 2008 I did research at the Sea Mammal Research Unit of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland funded by the German Academic Exchange Service. I was involved in the project SEaOS (Southern Elephant Seals as Oceanographic Samplers) using hydrographic data collected by the Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) to investigate the pathways of the SAAC Front (Southern Antarctic Circumpolar Front) around South Georgia in the Southern Ocean. The hydrographic data I used was collected by 10 Elephant Seals in 2008. Apart from the Elephant Seal data, I used data from Argo floats and ship-borne temperature and salinity sections measured in the vicinity of South Georgia.

CLIVAR marin-2 Project

CLIVAR Marin-2 - The German contribution to the International CLIVAR Programme.
Project group B1: Oceanic decadal climate variability in the Atlantic and Southern Ocean
B1-3: PI Dr. Klaus Peter Koltermann and Dipl. Oz. Gunda Wieczorek, Research Assistant.
In this project we investigated the exchanges and interactions between the two main gyres (the Subpolar Gyre and the Subtropical Gyre) of the North Atlantic Ocean using Argo float data. The project is located at the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, Hamburg (BSH).

3rd Progress report for the period 1 January 2004 - 31 December 2004:
3rd Progress report: Vorhersagbarkeit der Schwankungen von Meridionaltransporten im Nordatlantik: Beteiligte Prozesse und deren Relevanz auf entsprechenen Raum- und Zeitskalen (pdf in German)

Final report for the period 1 August 2004 - 31 July 2006:
Final report: Vorhersagbarkeit der Schwankungen von Meridionaltransporten im Nordatlantik: Beteiligte Prozesse und deren Relevanz auf entsprechenen Raum- und Zeitskalen (pdf in German)