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Uwe Kils (born July 10, 1951 Template:Fn) is a German marine biologist specializing in planktology. He was born July 10 1951 in Flensburg, his mother was a ballerina, his father a master-photographer. He began as bricklayer on the Island of Sylt, Kampen with Hoeft. Next he went to school at Schwarz to become a guitar and violin builder. Next he went to professional photography at his atelier of his father FOTO KILS click on we sail any sea. He left gymnasium towards USA to study informatics and computer sciences. After his return he went back a few weeks to gymnasium to reach the 1.2 neceserity to study biolgy. He finished Biology with Herre and Tischler with an A and was accepted into the Institut for Meereskunde. He finished his diploma with an A. He had already a printed publication out before the diploma was out and he got offered a position to join a payed expedition to antarctica. On 1979 May 16 he reached his Doctor Title in Marine Biology at the age of 29 with a work of behaviour and physiology of krill in antarctica with "summa cum laude" und "opus eximium". 1987 he received a Habilitation and the venia legendi in marine biology and fisheries biology from the University of Kiel under Gotthilf Hempel.

It also led to the development of various instruments for in situ observation of the underwater fauna for field research, including the ecoSCOPE^[1] and the first video processing software 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 was built ATOLL^[2]

Small lecture room on board with international students in a course on aquaculture technology

The ATOLL was composed of three curved fiberglass elements, each 25 m long and having a draught of only 38 cm. For towing, the elements could be assembled in a long S-shape; in operation, the elements would form a horseshoe shape surrounding 150 m² water surface and was developed and deployed in the Bay of Kiel. Work there led to the discovery of severe case of oxygen depletion Template:Inote and to Kils' involvement in an initiative to repopulate the Flensburg Fjord with herring^[3] as part of the project "Saubere Ostsee" ("Clean Baltic"). His work was honored by the HEINZ MAIER LEIBNITZ PRIZE HEISENBERG FELLOWSHIP and and Bioscience Prize of the VOLKSWAGEN FOUNDATION. He is founder and president of the private KINDER UNIVERSITYand ELITE UNIVERSITY.

Lectures: Fisheries Biology, Marine Biology, Experimental Fisheries Biology, Aquaculture, Professional Photography, Informatics, Computer Sciences.

Subsequently, Kils was invited by the INSTITUTE OF MARINE AND COASTAL SCIENCES at Rutgers University via an EB1 Visa (for such 4 greencard visa you need a major internationally recognized award, such as a Nobel Prize), 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 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.

He still works at high resolution images and develops online projects like Wikiversity [4]. His favourite lecture Biology of Antarctica he holds in your house, live, anywhere.

References

^ 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 [5].
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

Footnotes

Template:Fnb Peer evaluation from 1994

External links

Publication list
short CV
ecoSCOPE: personal web sites
On-line courseware in Oceanography
WIKIPEDIA photography gallery
uwekils@gmail.com

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	'''Uwe Kils''' (born [[July 10]], [[1951]]{{fn\|*}}) is a [[Germany\|German]] [[Marine biology\|marine biologist]] specializing in [[planktology]]. He was born July 10 1951 in Flensburg, his mother was a ballerina, his father a master-photographer. He began as bricklayer on the Island of Sylt, Kampen with Hoeft. Next he went to school at Schwarz to become a guitar and violin builder. Next he went to professional photography at his atelier of his father [http://web.archive.org/web/20001019164813/www.ecoscope.com/fotokils.htm FOTO KILS] click on we sail any sea. He left gymnasium towards USA to study informatics and computer sciences. After his return he went back a few weeks to gymnasium to reach the 1.2 neceserity to study biolgy. He finished Biology with Herre and Tischler with an A and was accepted into the Institut for Meereskunde. He finished his diploma with an A. He had already a printed publication out before the diploma was out and he got offered a position to join a payed expedition to antarctica. On 1979 May 16 he reached his Doctor Title in Marine Biology at the age of 29 with a work of behaviour and physiology of krill in ~~antarctica~~ with "summa cum laude" und "opus eximium". 1987 he received a [[Habilitation]] and the [[venia legendi]] in marine biology and fisheries biology from the [[University of Kiel]] under [[Gotthilf Hempel]].		'''Uwe Kils''' (born [[July 10]], [[1951]]{{fn\|*}}) is a [[Germany\|German]] [[Marine biology\|marine biologist]] specializing in [[planktology]]. He was born July 10 1951 in Flensburg, his mother was a ballerina, his father a master-photographer. He began as bricklayer on the Island of Sylt, Kampen with Hoeft. Next he went to school at Schwarz to become a guitar and violin builder. Next he went to professional photography at his atelier of his father [http://web.archive.org/web/20001019164813/www.ecoscope.com/fotokils.htm FOTO KILS] click on we sail any sea. He left gymnasium towards USA to study informatics and computer sciences. After his return he went back a few weeks to gymnasium to reach the 1.2 neceserity to study biolgy. He finished Biology with Herre and Tischler with an A and was accepted into the Institut for Meereskunde. He finished his diploma with an A. He had already a printed publication out before the diploma was out and he got offered a position to join a payed expedition to antarctica. On 1979 May 16 he reached his Doctor Title in Marine Biology at the age of 29 with a work of behaviour and physiology of krill in antarctic[http://www.zuckerspeicher.de/ecoscope/biomass3.htm a] with "summa cum laude" und "opus eximium". 1987 he received a [[Habilitation]] and the [[venia legendi]] in marine biology and fisheries biology from the [[University of Kiel]] under [[Gotthilf Hempel]].