Uwe Kils
Uwe Kil (born 10 July 1951, Flensburg ) is a German on planktology specialized marine biologist. Uwe Kil became famous when on his initiative that the project for the reintroduction of herring in the Flensburg Fjord was launched.
Life
Kil studied from 1972 to 1977 Kiel, and graduated with a degree in Biology from. The focus of his research were marine biology, following the plankton, krill and herring. In 1979 he was awarded for his work with the Maier- Leibnitz Prize. In 1987 his post-doctoral and teaching as a lecturer in marine biology and fisheries biology in Kiel. For his work on herring, he received the Heisenberg price and for the development of life sciences Ecoscops the price of the Volkswagen Foundation. Later work included predator-prey relationships of juvenile Atlantic herring and plankton for which a floating laboratory was rebuilt with underwater viewing windows, the atoll lab. The work revealed some severe cases of lack of oxygen, leading to Kil ' project ' Clean Baltic Sea ", an action to revive the Flensburg Fjord with pegs.
1994 Kil was appointed as a professor at the Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University in the United States. He helped establish a Virtual Institute of Oceanography, in which students can use on the Internet probes and cameras to fiber optic cables and occupy online courses. He programmed the virtual microscope. He worked with glass eels and created the web server eelBASE.