Uwe Kils

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Uwe Kils in 1998

Uwe Kils (born July 10, 1951^*) 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 Flensburg^* 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 krill^[1], for which he participated in an expedition to Antarctica, won him the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize^[2] in 1979. It also led to the development of various instruments for in situ observation of the underwater fauna for field research, including the ecoSCOPE^[3] 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 ATOLL^[4] was developed and deployed in the Bay of Kiel. Work there led to the discovery of severe case of oxygen depletion and to Kils' involvement in an initiative to repopulate the Flensburg Fjord with herring^[5] 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 KINDER UNIVERSITAET

Subsequently, Kils was invited by the INSTITUTE OF MARINE AND COASTAL SCIENCES at Rutgers University, where he became a tenured associate professor in 1994 helping to set up a "Virtual Institute for Marine Sciences" at Tuckerton with online underwater cameras via fibre optic cables. He programmed the virtual microscope and developed an in situ microscope. He worked with glasseels and created the web server eelBASE.

Kils retired in 2005^* 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 [6].

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^ Kils, U.: "Swimming Behavior, Swimming Performance, and Energy Balance of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba, translation of Ph.D. thesis in German from 1979, College Station, Texas; 1981. Available free via Wikisource
^ List of winners of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 1978 - 2003, from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) ("German Research Society").
^ Kils, U.: The ecoSCOPE and dynIMAGE: microscale tools for in situ studies of predator-prey interactions. Arch Hydrobiol Beih 36: 83-96.
^ Kils, U.: The ATOLL Laboratory and other Instruments Developed at Kiel; U.S. GLOBEC NEWS Technology Forum Number 8: 6-9.
^ Mentioned at [7].
KILS, U., KLAGES, N. (1979) 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) 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) 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) IMAGES: Krill Stuff. ed. Kayser j., Science 290 (5496): Net watch online publication ecoSCOPE.com - enhanced IT tools and translation of Kils, U., Marschall, P. 1995
Kils, U., (2006) So frisst der Krill How krill feeds. In: Hempel, G., Hempel, I., Schiel, S., Faszination Meeresforschung, Ein oekologisches Lesebuch. Hauschild Bremen, 112 - 115