Uwe Kils

Uwe Kils (born July 10, 1951fn|*) is a German marine biologist specializing in planktology. He received a Habilitation and the venia legendi in marine and fisheries biology from the University of Kiel.

Born in Flensburgfn|* in Schleswig-Holstein, he studied at the Institute of Oceanography at the University of Kiel under Gotthilf Hempel, informatics and photography. His Ph.D. work on the metabolism and behavior of krillref|Kils_PhD, for which he participated in an expedition to Antarctica, won him the "Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize"ref|HMLP in 1979. It also led to the development of various instruments for "in situ" observation of the underwater fauna for field research, including the ecoSCOPEref|Kils_ecoSCOPE designed by him. Later work at Kiel included the study of predator-prey interactions of juvenile herring and plankton, for which a floating laboratory called ATOLLref|Kils_ATOLL was developed and deployed in the Bay of Kiel. Work there led to the discovery of severe case of oxygen depletion inote|ref needed and to Kils' involvement in an initiative to repopulate the Flensburg Fjord with herringref|Ostsee_Heringe as part of the project "Saubere Ostsee" ("Clean Baltic"). His work was honored by the Heisenberg Fellowship and Bioscience Price of the VOLKSWAGEN FOUNDATION. He is founder and president of the private [http://uwekils.de/kinderuni KINDER UNIVERSITAET] and [http://uhse-elite-university.com UHSE-ELITE-UNIVERSITY]

Subsequently, Kils was invited by the [http://www.marine.rutgers.edu INSTITUTE OF MARINE AND COASTAL SCIENCES] at Rutgers University, where he became a tenured associate professor in 1994 helping to set up a [http://marine.rutgers.edu/cool/data.html "Virtual Institute for Marine Sciences"] at [http://marine.rutgers.edu/cool/info/leomap.html Tuckerton] with online underwater cameras via [http://marine.rutgers.edu/mrs/LEO/LEO15.html fibre optic cables] . He programmed the [http://ecoscope.com/cybermic/index.htm virtual microscope] and developed an "in situ" microscope. He worked with glasseels and created the web server [http://web.archive.org/web/20001027080113/www.ecoscope.com/eelbase.htm eelBASE] .

Kils retired in 2005fn|* from RUTGERS and is now living at New York as aquarelle painter and photographer still active setting up on-line courses in oceanography and marine biology at projects like Wikiversity [http://de.wikiversity.org/wiki/Institut_Ozeanographie] .

References

* Kils, U.: " [http://ecoscope.com/biomass3.htm Swimming Behavior, Swimming Performance, and Energy Balance of Antarctic krill "Euphausia superba"] , [http://www.scar.org/publications/list/ translation of Ph.D. thesis] in German from 1979, College Station, Texas; 1981. Available free via
* [http://www.dfg.de/aktuelles_presse/preise/download/leibnitz_preistraeger_78_03.pdf List of winners of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 1978 - 2003] , from the [http://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/scientific_prizes/hm_leibnitz_prize.html "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)"] ("German Research Society").
* Kils, U.: " [http://www.ecoscope.com/ecos_t_1.htm The ecoSCOPE and dyn
] " Arch Hydrobiol Beih 36: 83-96.
* Kils, U.: " [http://web.archive.org/web/20001015111747/cbl.umces.edu/fogarty/usglobec/news/news8/news8.atoll.html The ATOLL Laboratory and other Instruments Developed at Kiel] "; U.S. GLOBEC NEWS Technology Forum Number 8: 6-9.
* Mentioned at [http://64.95.130.5/FishWatcher/Record.cfm?autoctr=115] .
*KILS, U., KLAGES, N. (1979) [http://www.ecoscope.com/naturwie.htm Der Krill] . Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau 10, 397 - 402
*Kils, U. 1987) "Verhaltensphysiologische Untersuchungen an pelagischen Schwärmen - Schwarmbildung als Strategie zur Orientierung in Umwelt-Gradienten. Bedeutung der Schwarmbildung in der Aquakultur" (Habilitation), Universität Kiel, Ber Inst Meereskunde, Kiel 163: 1 - 168
*Kils, U. (1983) [http://ecoscope.com/polar4.htm Swimming and feeding of Antarctic Krill, "Euphausia superba" - some outstanding energetics and dynamics - some unique morphological details] . In: Berichte zur Polarforschung, Alfred-Wegener-Institut fuer Polarforschung, Sonderheft 4 (1983). On the biology of Krill Euphausia superba, Proceedings of the Seminar and Report of Krill Ecology Group, ed. S. B. Schnack, 130 - 155
*Kils, U., Marschall, P. (1995) [http://ecoscope.com/polarbe2.htm Der Krill, wie er schwimmt und frisst - neue Einsichten mit neuen Methoden.] (The Antarctic krill - feeding and swimming performances - new insights with new methods). In: Hempel, I., Hempel, G., Biologie der Polarmeere - Erlebnisse und Ergebnisse. Gustav Fischer Jena - Stuttgart - New York, 201 - 207
*Kils, U., (2000)
http://www.ecoscope.com ecoSCOPE.com] - enhanced IT tools and translation of Kils, U., Marschall, P. 1995
*Kils, U., (2006) So frisst der Krill . In: Hempel, G., Hempel, I., Schiel, S., Faszination Meeresforschung, Ein oekologisches Lesebuch. Hauschild Bremen, 112 - 115

Footnotes

fnb|* [http://de.wikiversity.org/wiki/Ozeanographie/kurse/Meeresbiologie/lehrer/kils/credentials Peer evaluation from 1994]

External links

* [http://de.wikiversity.org/wiki/Ozeanographie/kurse/Meeresbiologie/lehrer/kils/publicationen Publication list]
* [http://de.wikiversity.org/wiki/Ozeanographie/kurse/Meeresbiologie/lehrer/kils/cv short CV]
* [http://www.ecoscope.com ecoSCOPE] : personal web sites
* [http://de.wikiversity.org/wiki/Ozeanographie/kurse/ On-line courseware] in Oceanography
* [http://uwekils.de uwe kils]