Lake excursions
As part of forum.konstanz, the Limnological Institute at the University of Konstanz offers the opportunity to take part in a trip on the research vessel "Robert Lauterborn" and to watch and take part in the taking of water samples. For the dates in August and September, inquiries can now be made using our form.
The research vessel "Robert Lauterborn" is regularly used to travel from the pier in the port of Konstanz to a sampling point in Lake Überlingen near Wallhausen. There, using multi-parameter probes, depth profiles of the lake's water column are recorded (temperature, pH, oxygen, chlorophyll, etc.) and samples of zooplankton, phytoplankton and bacterioplankton are taken as well as for DNA sequencing. In this way, the seasonal cycle of plankton, i.e. the seasonal development (succession) of the complex and ecologically important microplankton community in the open water of Lake Constance, and the effects of climate change on the Lake Constance ecosystem can be documented.
The forum.konstanz and the Limnological Institute of the University of Konstanz offer groups of students and the interested public the opportunity to take part in a boat trip and sampling as part of lake excursions on selected dates. The lake excursions take place on Thursdays in spring and summer and last from 9 a.m. to around 2 p.m. School groups are didactically supported by biology teaching students from a seminars in the excursions module (extracurricular learning locations).
For the dates in August and September, inquiries can now be made using the form.