picture: Herbert Frei

OUR SERVICES

aquatil consults with institutions, companies, and initiatives in every stage of project management, from the original idea to the theoretical and practical aspects (feasibility analysis, thematic analysis, financial and material planning, approvals, etc.) up to practical implementation. In addition, aquatil provides support of the scientific background of a project idea as well as its use for journalistic purposes, citizen science and the education sector.

Consulting & Quality Assurance

Our consulting services include scientific diving research in all waters with structural, scientific and practical aspects, as well as post-processing, and projects for use in direct transfer of knowledge for the public, education, and citizen sciences.

Project Planning & Development

Holistic planning and consultation for the creation of research and applications, the scientific evaluation of ideas, the expenditure of time and personnel, or budgeting up to the sustainable publication are the normal standard for aquatil.

Realization & Project Support

aquatil combines both the core team as well as outstanding scientific and operational competencies through its extensive network, achieving the highest level of research and diving. Thus, we offer a starting point for precise and safe practical realization.

Publication & Public Relations

aquatil offers reliable follow-up and processing of projects in formal publications as well as informally online and offline (non-fiction, educational comics, platform). This includes the processing of topics for the transfer of knowledge to other departments, politics, economy and the population, for example as citizen science projects, as an app or public event.

SPECTRUM OF TOPICS

picture: Franz Brümmer

1. Water Quality Investigations

  • physical, chemical and biological water quality investigations (saprobic index, macrophyte index, etc.)
  • biological monitoring (macrozoobenthos, fish, etc.)
  • biological monitoring of neobiota (neozoa and neophytes)
  • fisheries biology studies
  • measures for species protection
  • eDNA (environmental DNA) to study dynamics of colonization/occurrence of small organisms, amphibians and fishes

2. Projects on the Subject of Neobiota

  • scientific research on the ecology of neobiota
  • biological monitoring of affected biocoenoses (communities)
  • concepts for control measures
picture: Franz Brümmer
picture: Ralph O. Schill

3. Projects on Plastic waste and “Microplastics” in Water Bodies

  • research work on the input pathways of conventional and newer plastics in aquatic bodies
  • identification of the pathways of micro- and macroscopic plastics (physical-mechanical and spectroscopic)
  • quantification methods
  • surveys on the colonization of plastics with aquatic microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, algae)
  • analytical dynamic investigation of the mechanical and chemical properties of plastics in water

4. Projects in the Field of Coral Reef Habitats

  • monitoring of marine organisms and their development in the habitat
  • marine aquaculture of marine sponges, marine snails and stony corals on land and in the natural habitat
  • stony coral seeding hubs
  • reef restoration
  • strategies for sustainable tourism
picture: Ralph O. Schill
picture: Franz  Brümmer

5. Science to the Public / Multimedia Environmental Education

  • classic information brochures
  • new educational formats (science comics, eComics, comic apps)
  • workshops, seminars & web-based educational events
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