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Several tanks with seawater connections are located in each lecture room, for cultivation of living organisms in a flow-through system. Each course room is also equipped with a fume hood. An additional cultivation room is provided in the basement of the Institute. Both lecture rooms have a small library (ca. 100 books), comprising the most pertinent identification keys and mainly phycology and ecology text books. A state of the art multimedia system is available in both course rooms. Two microscopes are connected to cameras and a beamer for presentations is also available. Camera images from the microscopes can be viewed on large wall screens either simultaneously or individually. A whiteboard has also been installed in both course rooms. Special paper and drying ovens are provided for those courses, which prepare herbariums on field-collected algae. If required, courses can use a ca. 4m² constant-temperature room with seawater connection and a laboratory with basic equipment(photometer, scale, extractor hood). Laboratory and fume hood use is compulsory if work with dangerous substances is planned (please download the 'Bulletin for handling chemical substances'). We kindly ask course instructors to register their requirements for the constant-temperature room and the laboratory well in advance. Please contact Mr Uwe Nettelmann (Uwe.Nettelmann@awi.de, Tel.: +49 4725-819 3212) for the organisation of technical issues.

The AWI`s Wadden Sea Station in List on the island of Sylt is the northernmost research center in Germany. Located within walking distance of the Wadden Sea, it offers the ideal point of departure for research at sea, in the intertidal zone, or in the station`s own laboratories.

45 persons work at the AWI`s facilities on Sylt: Scientists of the department Coastal Ecology and service staff members.

The station`s conference rooms are regularly used for scientific workshops and seminars. In addition, each year roughly 400 students visit the AWI on Sylt, taking part in one-week courses to deepen their understanding of the Wadden Sea ecosystem.

Emerged from a small field station for Oyster Research founded in 1924 the Wadden Sea Station Sylt can look back on a long history and proud research tradition as part of the Biologische Anstalt Helgoland. Just like the AWI`s Helgoland site, on Sylt ecological time series are recorded, and the resultant data are made available to government offices, professional associations, and research institutes.

Guidelines for Coordination of Large Scale Research Infrastructures operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

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