Chemical Trace Analysis

Foto von Labor-Messgerät und Arbeitsplatz — LC-MS/MS mit HPLC (Agilent, Infinity) und massenselektivem Detektor (Sciex QTrap 5500)

As a result of natural events and to most part anthropogenic activities, pollutants and xenobiotics are being released into the marine environment. Among these contaminants, besides a number of metals, there is a numbers of mainly man-made organic compounds that we are particularly interested in. As waste- or byproducts of manufacturing-, application- or disposal- processes, these compounds find their way into the environment and therefore - also into the sea.

Projekte

Foto mit deutscher Flagge an Bord eines Schiffes

PFAS-Pattern

Contamination of fish by perfluorinated chemicals in rivers and sea

Monitoring of hazardous substances in marine biota

Why are marine organisms like fish and shellfish so suitable to detect hazardous substances in the marine environment?

CONMAR FISH - Marine dumped munition and fish

Marine dumped munition is a global problem. In German waters of the North and Baltic Sea about 1.6 mio t of munition were dumped after World war two. The munitions shells are corroding and environmentally toxic substances are released to the ...

CephCo - squid as food

The "CephCo" project investigates how newly established squid stocks in the North Sea integrate into the food web and the extent of their contamination with pollutants.

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3,355 - that is the number of barrels of nuclear waste found and mapped by an international research team during a four-week expedition to the Iberian deep sea. Today, Friday morning, July 11, the research vessel L'Atalante arrived back in Brest, France.

A barrel lies on a sandy seabed and is overgrown with marine life.

Elin Wefer at the 5th Seminar Days of the Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology

Here we go: Construction of the new research vessel WALTHER HERWIG has started at the Lithuanian shipyard in Klaipeda. The keel laying marks the start of the practical construction phase of the replacement project for one of the world's most modern and efficient vessels for German fisheries and…