The marine researcher Prof. Dr. Jörg-Olaf Wolff passed away unexpectedly on 20 August at the age of 64. Prof. Wolff had been a university lecturer in "Physical Oceanography" at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) at the University of Oldenburg since 1999. "We mourn the loss of an outstanding scientist. Jörg Wolff was a universally popular and professionally valued colleague and lecturer at the ICBM," says Institute Director Prof. Dr. Ralf Rabus. Especially in recent years, Prof. Wolff and his research group have conducted research on the current topic of long-lived plastic waste in the oceans and have achieved important, highly regarded findings on its dispersal pathways and pollution areas.

Jörg-Olaf Wolff studied oceanography, meteorology and physics at the University of Hamburg, where he received his doctorate in physical oceanography in 1990. Until 1992 he worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg

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