Teaching

Education of technical assistants for natural history museums at the Senckenberg  School 

• Practical course on scanning electron microscopy (D. Fiege)
• Practical education in the section

Teaching at university level

• Lecture Evolution of the Metazoa (University of Frankfurt, D. Fiege: part Annelida)
• Practical course Diversity of the Metazoa (University of Frankfurt, D. Fiege: part Annelida)
• Practical course and field excursion Marine Zooplankton (University of Mainz, D. Fiege in collaboration with U. Hoeger, Mainz)

 

             Planktonexcursion 2003 to Villefranche sur mer

 

Marine Zooplankton – a practical course in cooperation with the University of Mainz

Since 2003 a joint course in Marine Plankton is conducted for undergraduate students of Zoology at Mainz University by Dr. Dieter Fiege (Senckenberg) and Dr. Ulrich Hoeger (Institute of Zoology, University of Mainz). The course combines studies of microscopic preparations of planktonic animals in Mainz and of living plankton at the Mediterranean Sea during an excursion to the Laboratoire Arago at Banyuls-sur-mer (France).
Morphology, systematics, developmental biology, and ecology are the main subjects of the course. Further aspects are covered by student presentations illustrated by digital video clips and images taken in Banyuls. The local coastal plankton is very diverse with regard to both mero- and holoplanktonic animals, including warm-water forms not occurring in the North Sea. During the second week a bottom trawl brings up the adult benthic fauna which develops from the larvae thriving in the plankton. The by-catch of fish is greatly appreciated by all participants as the tasty highlight of an evening barbecue.

   

 

 

Concurrent to these teaching activities a DVD on Marine Plankton was produced in cooperation with H.U. Dahms (Hong Kong) and the IWF Göttingen. The single videoclips can be found on the homepage of the IWF through the following links:

Marine biocenoses

             

Plankton                                                             Nekton 

 

 Benthos

Trophic relations

             

     Phytoplankton                                                  Zooplankton

               

      Parasitism                                                              Feces

          

        Marine snow

Locomotion

                        

Buoyancy regulation                                                        Cilia

                          

                 Comb cilia                                                               Jet propulsion

                          

             Appendages                                                              Migration

Unicellular planctonic organisms

                            

           Bacteria                                                                       Fungi

                       

               Algae                                                                 Radiolaria

Multicellular planctonic organisms

                            

         Cnidaria                                                          Ctenophora

                            

        Turbellaria                                                                Nemertea

                             

            Rotatoria                                                            Gastropoda 

                                 

         Sipunculida                                                          Polychaeta

                             

               Crustacea                                                            Chaetognatha

                              

             Tentaculata                                                    Echinodermata

                             

     Enteropneusta                                                       Chordata

           Methods

                         

           Plankton sampling                                              Night sampling

  Laboratory studies