DTU Aqua has recently published a brochure which gives an introduction to the institute and its work areas.
Researchers from DTU Aqua have shed light on the peculiar behaviour of the commercially and ecologically valuable sandeel.
DTU Aqua’s master’s program in Aquatic Science and Technology is the only program of its kind in Europe. Meet some of the programs students in three new video portraits
Even though the oceans warm up slower than land, a recently published study in the scientific journal, Science, shows that marine life has to move their ranges just as quickly as species on land to cope with the changing temperatures. This is the first time that the rate at which marine species have to change to cope with global warming has been quantified.
A recently published study shows that due to the low salinity, the invasive comb jelly cannot produce enough eggs to sustain a population in the central Baltic Sea. This is another indication, that the comb jelly poses no threat to the commercially important Baltic cod.
Behavioural experiments and brain research reveal surprising similarities between fish and humans. For example, some individuals are routine-bound creatures of habit, while others are better able to improvise.
Three institutes at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) participate in the future ”Centre for Ocean Life”, which is financed by the Villum Foundation and directed by DTU Aqua.
18 new students have begun their studies at the DTU Aqua's MSc program in Aquatic Science and Technology. More than half of the students are from abroad.
Maturity staging is used to estimate the size of the spawning fraction of a fish stock and advice on fishing quotas. DTU Aqua gathered biologists from 15 different countries in order to standardise guidelines for maturity determination of sprat and herring among countries, and thus increase the accuracy of fish stock assessments.
Researchers from DTU Aqua have decoded the behaviour of Norway lobsters and cod and used the results to develop a selective trawl. This so-called SELTRA-trawl ensures that fewer cod end up as by-catch in the Norway lobster fishery in the Kattegat.
In August, international PhD-students and marine biology experts travelled to the small village Ólafsvík in Iceland in order to attend a PhD-course organized by DTU Aqua. On the schedule was sampling of marine snow in the nearby fjord, and lectures on how the ocean’s tiniest creatures transport the increasing amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere into the deep oceans.
Dogger Bank is one of two test cases in the EU funded project MASPNOSE that aims to facilitate cross-border cooperation on ecosystem-based marine spatial plans
Scientists, fish farmers, feed and system suppliers and all others working with aquaculture are invited to join a new network established to speed up the development of aquaculture in Northern Europe
For years, the copepod, Metridia, has managed to remain hidden from science. However, this spring, during fieldwork at the Arctic Station, for the very first time researchers succeeded in filming how this constantly feeding little crayfish catches its prey.
This spring, DTU Aqua's fieldwork in Disko Bay in Greenland was carried out under unusual ice conditions because the sea ice formed much later than usual. Nevertheless, all the planned research boat trips were carried out, and all measurements were completed from the unusually long alga bloom that lasted over six weeks.
A recently published research paper shows, that dual management objectives to recover cod and grey seal populations in the Baltic Sea are realistic. Even though it means that the grey seals will get more cod on the menu.
Two years after DTU Aqua’s MSc program started, the first graduate defended her thesis. She is the first Master of Science in Aquatic Science and Technology.
Adult cod seem to have the entire ocean at their disposal, and yet each individual cod still chooses ‘their own’ local shipwreck, which they swim back to faithfully day after day. This is just one of the fascinating results from research using acoustic tags which has yielded new insights into what cod get up to below the surface of the sea.
On April 8, New Zealand-born Professor André Visser will defend his dissertation ’Small, wet and rational: Individual based zooplankton ecology’ for the degree of Doctor Technices (dr.techn.) at the Technical University of Denmark. The degree of Doctor Technices is the highest academic distinction within engineering and technological sciences.
The environmentally friendly Danish Model fish farms are to be expanded from the current freshwater farms to also include saltwater fish farms. This requires new technological solutions, which in itself could become something of an export bonanza.
Hundreds of cod equipped with high-tech mini-thermometers have helped scientists determine which water temperatures the fish can handle.