What?
Various (hands-on) activities in maths, science, technology, computer science and neuroscience
When?
31.05.2024, 9-14:30 School classes from year 7 and teachers 01.06.2024, 10-15 open to all interested parties
Where?
Campus Wechloy Carl-von-Ossietzky-Straße 9-11 26129 Oldenburg
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50 Years of Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg – 50 Years Open to New Approaches. From the very beginning, the natural sciences and mathematics have played a significant role in the development of Carl von Ossietzky University. Within the Discovery Days the School V - Mathematics and Natural Sciences is opening its doors on the Wechloy campus. Also our Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) takes part and we are opening our doors and providing exciting insights into current marine research.
We are bringing our autonomous research catamaran to Oldenburg. Our marine scientists use it to take samples of the ocean surface. Important exchange processes between the ocean and the atmosphere take place in this surface layer, which is less than a millimeter thick. How exactly these processes work and what role they play in the global climate is still poorly understood. The research group BASS (Biogeochemical Processes and Air-Sea-Exchange in the Sea-Surface-Microlayer) wants to change this and is using the research catamaran to do so.
Dive into the world of marine research with the Deutsche Allianz Meeresforschung (DAM, German Marine Research Alliance). DAM is developing two digital products that make it possible to experience the ocean and find information on shaping the future of our oceans. Find out more about our demand-oriented knowledge transfer and share your thoughts on our products with us. Be part of the change for a sustainable future.
The research group DynaDeep (The Dynamic Deep Subsurface of High-Energy Beaches) is bringing beach research to Oldenburg: What does it look like under the beaches of the island of Spiekeroog? What happens when fresh and salt water meet in the underground? A drill core provides an insight into the subsurface with deposits dating back to the Ice Age.
Diving as a research method - but how does it actually work? What are the benefits of diving in science? And how do you become a research diver? These and other questions will be answered by our students who are currently training to become research divers.
In our aquariums at the ICBM site in Wilhelmshaven, we have succeeded for the first time in Germany in reproducing stony corals sexually. With this knowledge, ICBM researchers have now founded a start-up to breed corals, make the coral trade more sustainable and thus contribute to the protection of coral reefs. Unfortunately, we couldn't bring our aquariums with us, but there are exciting things to discover from our coral research. And if you complete in the marine research quiz, you even have the chance to win a godparenthood for one of our baby corals, give it a name and visit it in the aquariums at the ICBM-Wilhelmshaven.
Here you can use Lego bricks to build on two different sections of coastline and then use levers to cause waves to rise. You can see directly which measures offer the best protection. Scientists are investigating this in the Lower Saxony research project "Good Coast".
Students on our Master's degree program in Microbiology make bacteria glow. The microbiologists explain what these special marine creatures are all about, where they come from and why they glow. Come into our darkened laboratory to see the glowing bacteria in action!
Climate researchers look into the future with their models and fill them with observations and data from the past and present. But how do they know what the climate was like in the history of the earth before humans even started keeping records? The seabed has been performing this task for millions of years. It holds a detailed archive of past climate changes. If you can extract this information from the sediment layers, you can read the seabed like a book - page by page, layer by layer. But how exactly does this work? What information does the seabed store and how do you get samples from the seabed? Find out what today's ocean reveals about its past.
We now find plastic waste in the most remote corners of the world's oceans - as eddies on the sea surface, in the deep sea or even in the food chain. Using table salt as an example, students from the Herbartgymnasium research group make microplastics visible under the microscope.
We invite you to take a look through the microscope. Our researchers are investigating microalgae and how various environmental factors, such as a rise in temperature, affect the algae. For the Discovery Days, they have samples from their laboratory that you can look at under the microscope.
We present our five degree courses at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM):
We give you an insight into the many opportunities that studying at the ICBM offers you.
We are bringing our research boat Zephyr to Oldenburg for the Discovery Days. We will show you which devices we use to take measurements at sea and how we take samples. For example, we can use our drifters to find out how plastic waste is transported by the currents in the North Sea.
They live among us, mostly undiscovered and little noticed; little green creatures! Aliens!
And they pose a challenge to our native habitats. We are talking about so-called "invasive alien species" and the helmsium is one of these species. This small green plant goes by the scientific name Crassula helmsii and can be found on the East Frisian islands of Norderney and Wangerooge. This species has been spreading there since the early 2000s. The problem: the species, which originates from Australia and New Zealand, can overgrow entire bodies of water in a very short time, displacing native species and destroying habitats in the long term. A good and permanently successful management strategy against this "alien" does not yet exist. This makes it all the more important to gain insights into its habitat requirements and distribution on the mainland.
Friday 9:30 - 10:00 "The story of the Helmsü - an alien on the move" with Dr. Markus Prinz
