Centre for Ocean Life

How will life in the oceans respond to environmental change? With our increasing awareness and concern for human impact on the marine environment and its role in regulating global climate, the need for predicting the future of life in the ocean becomes pressing. The goal of the centre is to develop a fundamental understanding and predictive capability of marine ecosystems.

The centre brings together biologists, physicist, chemists, and mathematicians from three Danish universities, funds PhD and postdoctoral fellows, offers PhD summer schools, international workshops, and operates a Researcher Visitors Centre. 

The centre opened January 1, 2012.

Centre management team

Centre for Ocean Life is a Villum Kann Rasmussen Centre of excellence for the study of life in a changing ocean.

News & activities

Job opening:

One or two PhD positions in trait-based analysis of life in the ocean for start autumn 2012

23rd to 27th of April 2012

Visit by Erik Martens, our future post.doc. from the Max Planck Institute of Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen. He will give at talk at DTU-MAT about coupled oscillators April 24 at 1 pm.

24th to 27th of April 2012

Visit by Tanguy Dufresne from the French Institute for Agricultural Research, department of Wildlife Behavior and Ecology.

25th of April to 7th of May 2012

PhD Summer school on arctic plankton ecology in Godhavn, Greenland

10-11th of December 2012

Annual meeting at Søminestationen, Holbæk

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